Her research explores the intersection of race, health and gender. Her book project Rattling the Collective Consciousness: Dr. Helen Dickens and Health Activism in post war America argues that black physicians used medical professionalization as a space and place for activism during the Jim Crow and post Civil Rights eras. In 2016-2017, she received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She has presented at several academic conferences, served as a panelist and was recently feature on the C-SPAN Lectures in History Series.