Her work is ethnographic, historical, and mostly based in Morocco. Her scholarship focuses on how legal, medical, and religious culture influence practices of kinship and reproduction, and on the flow of ideas and technologies of gender and sexuality between the Middle East, North Africa, and Western Europe. She has written on the politics of kinship, ethnicity, and Islamic identity in Maghrebi law and society. Her current book project examines the resilience of unconventional kinship and reproductive practices in modern Morocco. The book is based on archival research and fieldwork conducted in an Islamic family law court, a maternity hospital, and popular healing sites in Rabat and Casablanca.