She is interested in the implications of secularization for political thought. She also writes on political legitimacy, moral skepticism in political thought, and political skepticism. Her book, Nietzsche's Political Skepticism, will be published by Princeton University Press in August, 2007. She has previously been a Junior Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and a member of the School of Social Science, at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is currently the Lawrence S. Rockefeller University Preceptor.