Zirin established a scholarship fund for the Slavic Reference Service of the University of Illinois and with her husband endowed a chair in pulmonary biology in Colorado at National Jewish Health.
She returned to the United States and began working at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, where she met Harold Zirin, an astronomer employed at the facility.
[9] Scholar Ronald D. LeBlanc noted that she avoided the translation errors of previous versions of the work, and provided an introduction setting Durova's life in context, making it "truly a pleasure to read".
[12] In the 1970s, Zirin presented a paper, "Forgotten Russian Women Writers: 1830–1890" at a conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
[13] Research scholar and editor of Northern Illinois University Press's Russian Studies Series,[17] Christine Worobec commented that the work was a "classroom staple" at the time of Zirin's death.
In 2007, she collected the bibliographic material from the newsletter and expanded it with other scholars publishing the two-volume work, Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography.
[18] David Ransel of Stanford University described it as the first work of its kind, presenting a "comprehensive, multidisciplinary and multilingual bibliography", giving materials for territories of the former Habsburg, German, Ottoman, and Russian Empires and the Kingdom of Greece.
[19] The guide highlighted critical sources and publications to allow an interdisciplinary analysis of available material for scholars focusing on women and gender in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
[21] Organizing the data by era and country, which included a section on diasporic and stateless persons such as Roma and Jews, Rosenshield verified the meticulous citations and praised them as models.
[3] She had established a scholarship fund for the Slavic Reference Service of the University of Illinois,[9] and with her husband endowed a chair in pulmonary biology in Colorado at National Jewish Health in 2005.