Her research centers on the religious culture of the Iberian Atlantic, including the cult of the saints, race, gender, and visual culture. Her first monograph, Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain analyzes the fierce debate that emerged in seventeenth-century Spain over who should be the patron saint of Spain, and what it meant to be a “national” patron saint. She is currently completing her second monograph, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism.