Her research focuses on the pathways into middle school social studies teaching, teacher learning, and the pedagogy of teacher education. Her work has appeared in journals, including Journal of Teacher Education and Theory and Research in Social Education, and she has coauthored chapters in Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education (2005) and the Handbook of Research on Teacher Education: Enduring Issues in Changing Contexts (3rd ed., 2008).