An urban and social historian, she is also interested in historical methodologies and in the use of computers in history. Dr. Reiff is a co-editor of the recently published Encyclopedia of Chicago History (2004) and the author of Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1991). She is currently at work on two new books, provisionally titled Industrial Towns, Suburban Dreams, Industrial Realities: Pullman's Communities, 1880-1981 and Digitizing the Past: Computers, Networks, and History.