Her research includes the history of science, critical race studies, and queer and feminist theory. Her book, Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism, is forthcoming in the summer of 2014 with New York University Press. It examines local histories of masochism in tandem with sensation as an analytic category to illustrate what it feels like to be embedded in structures of domination such as patriarchy, colonialism, and racism, and what it feels like to embody femininity, blackness, and pain.