Her research interests include: gesture in women's storytelling (Zimbabwe and Botswana); the politics of public art (wall mural production in Winnipeg, Manitoba); gendered identity in public and private space (laundry practices in western Newfoundland); and Mennonite identity and expressive behaviour (women's lifestories in Belize and Mexico, the politics of Mennonite religous music and vernacular Low German song), and applied ethnomusicology.