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 (State-Nonstate Order, War, Postcoloniality)

// Border and Urban Studies 

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

// Materiality, Infrastructure, Design, Architecture: Human-Nonhuman Power Relations

// Hydrology: Water, Society, and Politics

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