Rabrenovic teaches organizational, urban and community, and family courses at Northeastern University. Her research interests are oriented toward comparative, cross-cultural social analysis in the areas of urban sociology, social stratification, and voluntary and nonprofit organizations. She is currently studying the restructuring of the public sector using examples of Boston University’s management of the Chelsea public school system and the new Charter School policy. Her book Community Builders: Neighborhood Mobilization and the Politics of Urban Change was published in 1996.