Her scholarly work focuses on Roman slavery, women, and gender. She is the author of Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions and Slavery in the Roman World (forthcoming), and she is the editor of Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (with Sheila Murnaghan) and Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture (with Margaret Malamud and Donald T. McGuire). Her current project deals with slaves in Roman material culture.