Her research concerns the social setting of the Jesus movement in the first century and the intellectual and social processes that facilitated its spread. Her first monograph Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement: The Ideological Project of the Sayings Gospel Q (2014) examined the authors of the Q source in cross-cultural comparison to better understand their political and ideological interests. She has also published articles on the historical Jesus, violence in early Christianity, voluntary associations, and the synoptic problem. Her work routinely engages with critical methods and theories in the academic study of religion.