She is a medieval historian, specializing in women and religion. Her first book, The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England, was published by Boydell in 2008 and she has completed a working draft of her second book project, Women in English Sermons 1350-1500. Out of the several articles she has written, her favorite comparing representations of Mary Magadalen in orthodox and heretical sermons was runner-up for the Jane Dempsey Douglas Prize in 2016. Her research has been generously supported by Baylor as well as by a Sabbatical Grant for Researchers from the Louisville Institute, and she is a regular writer for the Patheos blog The Anxious Bench.