The following areas are of particular interest in both her teaching and research:​

// Border and Urban Studies (Materiality, Infrastructure, Space)

// Comparative and Cultural Sociology, Global Sociology

// Power, State, Governance, Violence, and Postcolonial Theory

// Legal and Political Sociology, Social Theory

// Camp Institutions

// Global Mobility, Migration and Inequality, Humanitarianism

// Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Interaction Research, Discourse Analysis

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