She specializes in medieval French history, but has broad interests in the pre-modern world, particularly in the fields of legal history, family history, and women’s history. She is the author of Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne (UPenn, 2012), and Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 (OUP, 2017). She was an Advanced Research Collaborative Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Spring of 2017 and a Mellon Fellow in Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2014-2015.