Since 2009, she has co-directed Historic Hall County: Spaces and Places, an interdisciplinary website project blends oral history and GIS imaging to document and preserve the history of the Chattahoochee River Valley in northeast Georgia. Dee’s research focuses on southern communities in transition at mid-20th century. Her earlier publications examined the social and political impact of black women’s community leadership during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her current research project shifts focus to the social and environmental impact of southern modernization after World War II. She is also engaged in oral history methodology and its uses in local historical preservation.