Her most recent publications, Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2011), highlights how Copts identified and distinguished themselves from other groups within Ottoman Egyptian society by turning to an array of religious traditions, such as the visitation of saints' shrines, the relocation of major festivals to remote destinations, the development of new pilgrimage practices, as well as the writing of sermons that articulated a Coptic religious ethos in reaction to Catholic missionary discourses.