• Morocco, Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Niger and New Orleans
• African Arts
• Women's Studies

Publications:

“Moroccan and Algerian Painters: Contemporary Custodians of Amazigh Consciousness” in Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause, eds., North African Mosaic: a Cultural Re-appraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities (Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, in press).

“The Mulitsensory Aesthetics of Berber Dress” in Helen Foster and Donald Johnson, eds., Senses and Sentiments of Dress (Oxford: Berg Press, in press).

“Fadma Lahcen: Healer of Women and Weaver of Textiles,” in Frances Trix and John Walbridge, eds., Muslim Voices, Muslim Lives: A Classroom Reader for Cultural Anthropology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, in press).

“Interactions Across the Sahara: Enslaved Sub-Saharan African Communities in the Maghreb,” in Labelle Prussin, ed., African Crossroads, (New York: The Museum for African Art, forthcoming in conjunction with exhibition African Crossroads).

“Amazigh Textiles and Dress in Morocco: Metaphors of Motherhood,” African Arts 39.3 (2006): 42-55.

“Review of The Beaded Prayers Exhibition at the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston,” African Arts 39.2 (2006): 76-78, 88.
“Berber Folklore,” in William Clements, ed., Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006), 101-112.

“Gender, Identity, and Moroccan Weddings: The Adornment of the Ait Khabbash Berber Bride and Groom,” in Helen Foster and Donald Johnson, eds., Wedding Dress Across Cultures (Oxford: Berg Press, 2003), 105-122.

“‘We are real slaves, real Ismkhan’: Memories of the trans-Saharan slave trade in the Tafilalet of South-Eastern Morocco,” The Journal of North African Studies 7.4 (2002): 97-121.

“Visualizing Gender and Identity: Berber textiles from the Tafilalet of southeastern Morocco,” Ars Textrina: A Journal of Textiles and Costume 31 (1999): 183-199.