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

// Global, Comparative, and Cultural Sociology

// Legal and Political Sociology

// Social Theory

// Methodology, Epistemology, Research Methods

// Power, Governance, Inequality, Violence

// Border and Urban Studies 

// Camp Institutions, Humanitarianism, Mobility, (Forced) Migration

// Human-Nonhuman Relations: Materiality, Infrastructure, Nature​​