Her research interest includes policing, security and humanitarianism. Her work has focused on policing practices in Gaza as well as the experience of humanitarianism in Gaza since 1948. Her book Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority and the Work of Rule (1917-1967) is available through Duke University Press and she is working on an edited volume entitled Government and Humanity. She received the 7th Annual Cultural Horizons Prize (Society for Cultural Anthropology) for her article that appeared in Cultural Anthropology.