Her expertise includes gender, feminism, and film in the United States and Mexico.
[citation needed] Hershfield is currently professor emerita within the Women's and Gender Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;[1] she has previously worked as an assistant professor in the department of Communication Studies.
Hershfield also participated as a U.S. Scholar with the Telling Our Stories of Home conference in 2016.
A portion of her upcoming film on Benevolence Farm, a transitional housing project for formerly incarcerated women, was screened at the conference.
[1] Hershfield is a producer, director, and editor of documentaries with New Day Films.