She has published Courting Disaster (London: Macmillan, 1991); Believing in Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996) and other books. From 1996 - 2000, she was editor of the Journal of Religious History. She has been a visiting lecturer and/or fellow at Balliol College Oxford, Macquarie University, St Andrew's University, Scotland, the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney and the Humanities Research Centre, ANU Canberra.