Her research explores diet and health in past populations using paleopathological and isotopic analyses of human bones and teeth. Her current project is the bioarchaeological investigation of a rural Roman cemetery on an Imperial estate at Vagnari, south Italy. Her interdisciplinary research combines skeletal, isotopic, and archaeological evidence embedded within the historical context of the populations she studies. She has published on paleodiet and migration in Roman Italy in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the Journal of Archaeological Science.