Her research and teaching centers on American religions, Jewish history, and their intersections. Her first book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU Press, 2017) demonstrates how geographic mobility shaped the religious idioms, institutions, and ideologies of American Jews in the period between 1820 and 1880. It was the winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies. New projects focus on the formation of southern Jewish heritage and on Homes for Aged and Infirm Hebrews around the turn of the twentieth century. She received her PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University in 2015.