She defended a dissertation entitled 'Restaging Jean Bodin: the Universae Naturae Theatrum (1596) in its cultural context' in 1990, which became the basis of her 1997 book.
او از تز دکترایش با نام "Restaging Jean Bodin: the Universae Naturae Theatrum (1596) in its cultural context" در 1990 دفاع کرد که مبنای کتابش در 1997 شد.