In 2003 she co-edited the book, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, published by the University of California Press.
Machida curated the exhibition, Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art presented at the Chinese Cultural Center in San Francisco, California.
In 2005, she won, with co-editors Elaine Kim and Sharon Mizota, a Cultural Studies Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies for their book, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art, published by the University of California Press.
[2][3] In 2011, Machida won a Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, for her Duke University Press book, Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary.
[4] Machida's recent publications include “Art and Social Consciousness:Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists in San Francisco 1965-1980” in Gordon Chang, Mark Johnson, and Paul Karlstrom, eds.