Mediterranean World, Asia Minor, Roman Empire, North Africa, early Christianity, New Testament, Christian apocrypha, feminist hermeneutics, Augustine of Hippo, the development of the earliest churches (including “dissenting” movements) and of early Christian writings in their social and cultural environments. She also contributes to the scholarship on “engaged” methods of adult pedagogy. Church History, Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Christianity, Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, Gospels & The Historical Jesus, Pauline Studies, Social History of Early Christianity, Technology in Teaching.

recent publications include By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry, edited with Lai Ling Ngan and Ahida Calderón Pilarski (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014) and The Jesus Movement and the World of the Early Church (Winona, MN: Anselm Academic, 2014).