Her work explores the multi-faceted dimensions of slavery, the slave trade, and cross-cultural contact in the Dutch Atlantic and colonial America, with special emphasis on New York City. She has published on a range of topics, from slavery and race in a Brooklyn Dutch Reformed Church to the participation of African women in New Amsterdam’s courts. She curated the digital exhibit "Slavery in New Netherland" for the New Netherland Institute. Currently, she is finishing a manuscript, Sharing Spaces: The Entangled Lives of Dutch and African Americans in Early New York, under contract with Cornell University Press.