[1][2] Prior to the Siebel chair's creation in 2015, she was the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History.

She went on to do postdoctoral work at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she focused on the history of science.

Creager's historical analysis explores TMV as a model system within the social and political cultures of mid-twentieth century biomedical research.

Natural radioisotopes were used as tracers to track atoms and illuminate biological processes in living creatures and ecosystems.

[11] Creager has edited Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2002), with Elizabeth Lunbeck and Londa Schiebinger,[13][14] The Animal / Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives (University of Rochester Press, 2002) with William Chester Jordan,[15][16] and Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Duke University Press, 2007), with Elizabeth Lunbeck and M. Norton Wise.