She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. Her research focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and the intersection of the two. In philosophy of religion, she has worked on questions surrounding the nature of religious faith. In philosophy of science, her research has focused on the role of variational principals in thermodynamics, and the unique puzzles non-dynamic laws create for understanding the reference of theoretical terms like ‘entropy’. Recently she has developed an interest in the predictive role of historical science, particularly the link between paleclimatology and predictions of abrupt climate change.