She has authored two books–Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries (Routledge, 2005) and Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich: Wealth, Poverty, and Early Christian Formation (Baker Academic, 2012). Her research includes early Christian identity formation in Greco-Roman context, wealth, poverty, and the care of the poor in early church, and women in Christian history. She’s also interested in early Christian construction of bodily pain, illness, and sanctity in conversation with late antique medicine.