Her research examines the relationship between social and political institutions in American public policy. She is the author of All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy (Stanford, 2007) and articles appearing in Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Policy History, Polity, and American Politics Research. In 2008-2010 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University. Strach received her doctorate in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004.