I currently hold the George & Sallie Cutchin Camp Professorship of Bible at the University of Richmond (Richmond, VA). I have been at the University of Richmond since 2011. Before arriving at Richmond, I taught at Hofstra University (Hempstead, Long Island; 2002-2011).

My research expertise is in second- and third-century Christian history and literature. I study and write on early Christianity in the Roman Empire, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of martyrdom.

My teaching focus concerns the history and literature of the early Church in the 1st–3rd centuries. But, I do not teach Christianity as originating or existing in a vacuum, so all of my courses situate this history and these texts within their Jewish and Roman contexts.