She is Associate Dean for Public Engagement at the Brooks School of Public Policy, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, co-director of the Politics of Race, Immigration, Class and Ethnicity (PRICE) research initiative, and board chair of the Cornell Prison Education Program. Her research focuses on American political development, American political economy, and the politics of public policy. “From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom-Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship” is an important and agenda-setting article on the study of American political economy, which develops a range of theoretical tools to enable a bottom-up research approach.