Armani Beck's interests lie in formal theory construction, most frequently around social patterns of privilege, power, and inequality. At present she is writing a book about the fluidity of male privilege, adapted from her dissertation, "And now I have male privilege!": Transgender Accounts of the Precarity of Privilege Maintenance. Through in-depth interviews with transgender people who have experience being perceived on both sides of the gender binary she drew patterns across who has access to male privilege, whether privilege is fixed or dynamic, and the sociomental and intersubjective process of assigning privilege, particularly when there are socially incompatible characteristics. Armani found that male privilege can be gained, lost, and maintained, that the degree of male privilege one benefits from is dependent on visible or assumable characteristics that conflict with Western hegemonic masculinity, and that domination works both externally (men having privilege relative to other genders) and internally (men having privilege relative to other men). She applied these findings to race specifically in a recently published book chapter titled "Trans Men Navigating Male Privilege and the Complexities Intersectional Identities" in the edited volume Interpreting Identity: Dimensions of Power, Presence, and Belonging. 

Armani is also interested in constructing theory using social pattern analysis. She is developing her most recent article into a book, titled "Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular," which was published as an article in Symbolic Interaction.  In this article she argues that "mononormativity," defined by Armani as the normativity of "one-ness" and "singularity" in contemporary U.S. society, reflects the basic ideals of how society is organized. Examples include loyalty (to country, partner, political party, or religion), rigid-mindedness around identity categories (such as stigma against being biracial or bisexual), and elevation of one social identity over others (such as living in affinity housing, the existence of ethnic enclaves, or identifying as a "race scholar").  

Armani is extremely passionate about changing society through education and believes that the success of her students is the motivation for her own success. She enjoys teaching courses related to gender, sexuality, race, and mental health.