Haskell is the co-founder of Free Dirt Records, a record label that also offered distribution, management and publishing administration services. In the last few years label artists have received three Grammy nominations. Free Dirt has released albums by Pokey LaFarge, Anna and Elizabeth, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerard, Willi Carlisle, Jake Blount, Che Alpalache Rachel Baiman, Vivian Leva and The Wilders among others.

She is also co-producer of the critically acclaimed American folk music album Starlight on the Rails by U. Utah Phillips released on AK Press and Daemon Records. Haskell founded a music-recording project in three Hungarian refugee camps which was the subject of articles about refugee music in the Utne Reader and ai magazine (Art International). 

In her scholarly work she has explored the politics of music, applied/activist ethnomusicology, and the involvement of international humanitarian organizations in cultural events and projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is particularly interested in the interaction between and intersection of cultural activities (such as radio, festivals and record production which are the subjects of three of the case studies) and international projects in humanitarian assistance, democracy assistance, economic development, peace initiatives and civil-society building within the context of historical periods of occupation. Her chapter, "The Role of Applied Ethnomusicology in Post-conflict and Post-catastrophe Communities", was published in The Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology by Oxford University Press in 2019 and "Funding Festivals: Bringing the World to the Capital, Sarajevo" was published in Muzikoloski Zbornik (Musicology – Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in January of 2017.