Her research investigates religious developments of the Roman imperial period, with a focus on situating Jewish and Christian actors and phenomena in their Greco-Roman milieu. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Biblical Literature, the Journal of Roman Studies, and the Journal of Ancient Judaism. Her first monograph, At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire (Oxford: 2016), examines evidence for the rise of self-authorized experts in specialized religious skills, rites, and wisdom under the Roman Empire. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in New Testament and Christian Origins at Wright State University (Dayton, OH) and a visiting lecturer at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT).