Her dissertation research compares the effects of state terrorism on the recognition of exile political rights in Argentina and Colombia. This research has received support from the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright-Hays Program. In a separate project with Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA), they examine how familyism ideologies are embedded in violence against women’s laws and how the legal articulation of these laws undermines women’s rights in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. This work has been published in the Latin American Research Review and Social Politics.