[2] While working at MIT, she was made a 2003–2004 J. Paul Getty Trust Postdoctoral Fellow for her project "Ruins into Monuments: Preservation, Nationalism, and the Construction of Heritage in the Modern Middle East".
[5][2] Her scholarly article, "Deviant Dervishes: Space, Gender and the Construction of Antinomian Piety in Ottoman Aleppo", won the 2007 Syrian Studies Association Article Prize for "its meticulous reconstruction and careful analysis of the life and works of a prominent Sufi figure of the late sixteenth century, and for demonstrating the complex ways in which the memory and legacy of this figure were appropriated by the religious and political authorities in the years after his death".
[4] In 2019, she wrote The Missing Pages, a historical study of the separated canon tables of the Zeytun Gospels and how they eventually reached the J. Paul Getty Museum after the Armenian genocide.
[11] She had come up with the idea for the book after writing a Los Angeles Times op-ed in response to the Armenian Apostolic Church's lawsuit over the Zeytun Gospels.
[16] In that same year, she was made a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar for her project "City of 1001 Churches: Architecture, Destruction, and Preservation at a World Heritage Site".