She specializes and teaches courses in twentieth-century social and cultural history, immigration, race and ethnicity, and public history. She is currently working on a book-length study, “Narrating A Nation of Immigrants: Race, Memory and Cultural Policy in Cold War America.” As a public historian, she has offered her services to the Bracero Oral History Project, the Studio for Southern California History, the Breed Street Shul, and most recently to an immigrant advocacy organization, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC). Before she moved to Boston, she received her PhD and MA in History at the University of Southern California and her AB in American Studies at Brown University.