She is the author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2007), and numerous articles on the history of Egyptian social science, gender politics, urbanism, and visual culture. Her current book project, tentatively titled, “Theorizing the Soul: Self and Psyche in Twentieth Century Egypt,” traces the development of discourses of self, psyche, and subjectivity in Egypt as part of the transnational history of ideas and comparative social history.