Her research interests include the intersection of race and politics in U.S. social activist performance, 20th century Ukrainian theatre, and witchcraft on the American stage. In addition to serving as an executive committee member of ASTR, Chrystyna is secretary of ATDS. She has presented her research at ATHE, ASTR, IFTR, MATC, ALA, and SEA and published with the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre History Studies, Arthur Miller Journal, Theatre Journal and Performing Arts Resources. She has a chapter in the 2015 edited collection Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor and her book, Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s is forthcoming with Southern Illinois University Press (November 2016).