She teaches beginning and intermediate Latin and courses on Roman civilization. Her research and publications focus on the intersections of public art, inscriptions, and architecture; the material culture of Latin epigraphy; Ostia, the port of ancient Rome; and art made by ordinary Romans. She is the author of Civic Monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2015), co-editor of and contributor to Walls and Memory: The Abbey of San Sebastiano (Lazio) from Late Antique Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond (Brepols, 2005), and has published articles and essays on ancient Roman art and culture. She is currently working on a project that examines how art, ritual and space create community identity among the firemen in their barracks at Ostia.