Her research explores the social dimensions of health among women living in poverty, which she has examined in urban India as well as rural Appalachia. Her book describing her Fulbright-funded ethnographic research in India, No one will let her live: women’s struggle for wellbeing in a Delhi slum, is published with the University of California Press and received an honorable mention for the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize for a significant contribution to anthropological scholarship on gender and health. Her current research focuses on the social and cultural factors that contribute to women’s mental health and mental health disparities in the rural U.S., with the goal of translating this awareness into culturally tailored interventions to improve mental health.