She is the author of The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (2009), which won the Bolton-Johnson Prize (CLAH/AHA) and co-won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis award (CSA). She is coeditor of Activating the Past: History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World (2010) and The Dominican Republic Reader(2014).