Current topics of her research at CSR include justice mapping, conflict urbanism, spatial inequality, and historical New York City.
The topics of her writing include: the family as educator, families and communities at educators, listening to and learning from families, stories as forms of learning in museums.
Committee members were impressed with Viswanathan's personal mentorship and the ways in which she made the topics of her class compelling for everyone.
The topics of her courses include: child development, child psychopathology, developmental assessment and clinical evaluation, mental health consultation and early childhood education.
The current research topics of her group cover sparse modeling (e.g. Lasso), structured sparsity (e.g. hierarchical and group and graph path), and analysis and methods for spectral clustering for undirected and directed graphs.
These subjects are the topics of her forthcoming books How Girls Achieve and When Schools Close, the former scheduled for publication by Harvard University Press in 2019.
