She holds a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University. The intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender in performance, photography, film, and video after 1960 is her particular area of expertise. She has published in the Journal of Research on Women and Gender, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Woman's Art Journal, and n. paradoxa. Her book project, Subversive Language and Contemporary Women Artists of Color, will be published by Ashgate Press in 2014.