A scholar of New Testament and Early Christianity and a papyrologist, she is interested in the social history of early Christianity, using both literary texts and documentary sources.

Publications

Greetings in the Lord: Early Christians and the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Harvard Theological Studies 60.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Forbidden Oracles? The Gospel of the Lots of Mary. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum.
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.
"Jesus says: 'There Is Nothing Buried That Will Not Be Raised'. A Late-Antique Shroud with Gospel of Thomas Logion 5 in Context." Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 15
(2011): 389-410.
"Reading the Gospel of Thomas in the Third Century: Three Oxyrhynchus Papyri and Origen's homilies." In: Claire Clivaz and Jean Zumstein (eds.), in collaboration with Jenny Read-Heimerdinger and Julie Paik, Reading New Testament Papyri in Context - Lire les papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur contexte. Actes du colloque des 22-24 octobre 2009 à l'Université de Lausanne (BETL 242; Leuven: Peeters, 2011), 241-267.
"A New Fragment of LXX Isaiah 23 (Rahlfs-Fraenkel 844)." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 47 (2010): 35-45.
"A New Testament Papyrus and Its Owner: P.Oxy. II 209/P10, an Early Christian School Exercise from the Archive of Leonides." Journal of Biblical Literature 129:3 (2010): 569-90.
"Sacred Scriptures as Trash: Biblical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus." Vigiliae Christianae 64:3 (2010): 217-54.
"Papyri from the Great Persecution: Roman and Christian Perspectives." Journal of Early Christian Studies 16:3 (2008): 341-69.