Currently she heads the Equine Studies Institute in Livingston, California, whose focus is higher education in horsemanship. Dr. Bennett's interest in history ranges through the whole time scale, from the fossil horses of millions of years ago to military and cultural history. 

In 1993, she acted as researcher for the "Thundering Hooves" exhibit at the Witte Museum of San Antonio, Texas. While still on staff at the Smithsonian, she researched the history of ranching and of various horse breeds in contribution to the prestigious Columbus Quincentenary exhibit. Both these exhibitions, which commemorated exchanges of flora, fauna, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds resulting from European voyages begun in 1492, acted as impetus for more research which resulted in the present book Conquerors. 

Dr. Bennett does not confine her work to the chalkboard and laboratory, but rides and trains horses herself. In this area, she is a uni-versalist, constantly reminding students that the cut of a person's hat or saddle matters not one whit to a horse. Riding clubs and organizations across the continent have enjoyed and benefited from her personal appearances, for she is remarkably conversant with the needs and problems of many contemporary breeds and horse show disciplines. 

Feature articles by Dr. Bennett regularly appear in Equus and Conquistador magazines, but over a career spanning more than 20 years she has also become familiar to the public through having been printed in almost every other major North American equestrian periodical, including the United States Dressage Federation Bulletin, The Arabian Horse Express, Ride Magazine, Trail Blazer, The National Reining Horse Reiner, Modern Horse Breeding, Practical Horseman, Horse and Rider, Polo, Dressage & CT, Horseplay, and Horseman. She has also been featured on the syndicated TV series Living With Animals and in Horsemen's Video Magazine. 

Dr. Bennett has a long list of technical publications, including publication in the prestigious Systematic Zoology and in the books Mammalian Species of the World, Natural Kansas and Kansas Geology. She is the author of scholarly articles concerning equine evolution, the origin of horse breeds, and the principles of conformation analysis for the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Animal Science. For the Smithsonian's Columbus Quincentenary volume Seeds of Change she co-authored a concise history of ranching in the New World. 

Fleet Street Corp., publishers of Equus magazine, makes three very readable volumes available by Dr. Bennett, all under the title "Principles of Conformation Analysis." These booklets, stuffed with photographs of various types of horses, are now required reading for those applying for judges' cards through the American Horse Shows Association.