She specializes in European history and teaches courses on Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, Modern France, 19th Century Europe and a graduate seminar in European History, among others. She received her Ph.D. from Florida State University where her dissertation was The Napoleonic Institute of Egypt. Her articles are published in numerous journals including the Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, and the Journal of the Crimean War Research Society, as well as the Historic Dictionary of Napoleonic France.