Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. Michigan 2005) with an accompanying certificate in museum studies, she is completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Remaking Memory: How Jews and Poles are Salvaging Jewish Heritage in Poland, based on ethnographic fieldwork in Poland, Israel, and the United States. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright, IREX, and Mellon foundations, among others. She was recently awarded funds from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to develop the Center for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence (CEREV) at Concordia, which includes a digital exhibition lab, “Lab 6 ½.”