Her first book, Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia (Cornell University Press, 2014), examines the creation of intentionally integrated neighborhoods in the latter half of the twentieth century. Her second book, Staring out to Sea: Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore, is also forthcoming with Cornell UP. She is the co-author of two Reacting modules: Changing the Game: Title IX, Gender, and Athletics in American Universities (with Kelly McFall) and Monuments and Memory-Making: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1981-82) (with Kelly McFall and Rebecca Livingstone). Perkiss is the Managing Editor of the Oral History Review and Vice President of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region.