She received a Fulbright Scholarship in Italy, 1954-56, and a Humanities Institute Fellowship, 1985-86. She has articles published in various journals such as Historical Journal, 18th Century Studies, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, History of European Ideas; chapters in Greece and the Mediterranean (Mediterranean Studies 2), and Wagnerism in European Politics and Culture, ed. by David Large and William Weber (Cornell, 1964). Her area of specialization is nineteenth and twentieth century Italian history. Having begun as a diplomatic historian, she has moved to social and cultural history and is presently working on a manuscript on the social and political uses of music in Italy from the French Revolution to the 1930s.