Her research has focused on how moral culture shapes conflict and decision-making in religious communities and influences dynamics of inclusion and exclusion along the lines of family form, race, gender, and social class. She is the author of Congregations in Conflict (Cambridge, 1999) and Religion and Family in a Changing Society (Princeton, 2005). Her current research examines the links between religion and racial attitudes, the formation of family ideals in diverse religious communities, and how religious belonging shapes work-family strategies.