A former nurse practitioner, she is interested in the bodily accumulation of experience, with a particular focus on sex and gender as dynamic and evolving categories. Her ethnography It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain (forthcoming from SUNY Press), draws on fieldwork with vulvar pain patients to call for new feminist analyses of contemporary genital discourse and practice. Her current research examines female bodily comportment and gendered asymmetries in and around the Bakken oil fields in northwestern North Dakota.