Her thesis was entitled Warriors and Workers: Duality and Complementarity in Aztec Gender Roles and Relations.
Her book Bonds of Blood won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize in 2008.
[2] Her book On Savage Shores: How America Discovered the World was published in 2023.
[5] For her "exceptional contributions to revealing histories of early contact between civilisations and expanding our understanding of civilisation", Dodds Pennock was awarded the 2023 Humanists UK Voltaire Medal.
[6] Dodds Pennock has contributed to the BBC,[7] Netflix, and the Science Channel, and has written for BBC History Magazine, History Today, and Scientific American.