critical theories of religion; the deployment of the categories of gender, sexuality, and the body in the formation of religious boundaries in late antiquity; the intersection between ritual practice and theological conflict; the relationship between "magical" and religious (Christian, polytheist and Jewish) ritual practice.

Selected Publications:

Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World. Ed. Kimberly Stratton with Dayna S. Kalleres (forthcoming August 2007)

"Demonology and Divine Illumination: A Consideration of Eight Texts of Gregory of Nazianzus," (Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Language, forthcoming 2007)

"Cultivating True Sight at the Center of the World: Cyril of Jerusalem and the Lenten Catechumenate," (Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, September 2005)