Her research focuses on the ways that schools and teachers prepare students as citizens in the context of disruptive change, with a particular emphasis on multilingual learners in the United States and students in transitional and post-conflict states. Some of her recent publications include: Quaynor, L. (2014). “The means to speak”: Educating youth for citizenship in post-conflict Liberia. Journal of Peace Education, and Quaynor, L., & Hamilton, C. (2012). Providing a global education to refugee students. Social Studies and the Young Learner.