Her book, The Politics of Consolation: Memory and the Meaning of September 11 (Oxford UP, 2015), examines how the events of September 11, 2001, were mediated through previous episodes of national suffering and traces the struggle to define the meaning of September 11 in foreign policy discourse, commemorative ceremonies, and the contentious redevelopment of the World Trade Center. The book received an Honorable Mention for the Best Book Prize from the American Sociological Association’s Culture Section, and research from this project has also appeared in the American Sociological Review. Currently, she is working on a project that examines U.S. media and political representations of the 1945 atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She teaches courses on theory, culture, media, politics, and memory.