She enjoys teaching a wide-range of topics in U.S. history, including modern America, the Latina/o and Chicana/o experience, women and gender, and the history of race and ethnicity in America. Her book, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front (University of North Carolina Press, 2013), received the CWWH’s Armitage-Jameson Book Prize in 2014 and the Best History Book—English Prize from the International Latino Book Awards in 2015. Her current book project is a comparative history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican women in the World War II U.S. military.