[3] Her PhD thesis, which was completed under the guidance of Bertrand Halperin and H. Eugene Stanley, was entitled Physics of disordered media: Aggregation and diffusion.
[8] Following her postdoctoral work, Selinger joined the physics faculty at the Catholic University of America in 1995 and then spent a sabbatical at the United States Naval Research Laboratory from 2002 to 2003.
[8] As a professor at Kent State, Selinger co-hosted the Ohio STEM Project Fair which engaged high school students in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
"[12] In 2016, Selinger became the first female faculty member at Kent State University to be elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
[16] Selinger and her husband Jonathan are active members of Temple Beth Shalom in Hudson, Ohio; she is the cantorial soloist while he is past-president of the congregation.