She completed her doctoral studies in Theological Ethics at Boston College in 2009, and her MA at Catholic Theological Union in 2004. Scheid's teaching and research is in the area of Christian social ethics. She pays special attention to issues of war, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconciliation, and to African theologies of inculturation. Her work appears in Horizons, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and Teaching Theology and Religion. She is the author of Just Revolution: A Christian Ethic of Political Resistance and Social Transformation (Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2015).