She holds a joint appointment as the Associate Professor at the Evans School of Public Affairs, is Associate Director at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, and holds adjunct Associate Professor positions in the Department of Global Health and the Department of Sociology. Curran researches migration, globalization, gender, climate change and adaptation, and development. Curran employs a variety of research techniques, including qualitative field work, survey field work, regression modeling, mixed methods, and spatial and network analyses.