Publications include: Ban Gu's History of Early China (Amherst, New York: Cambria, 2008); Beating Devils and Burning their Books: Views of China, Japan, and the West (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming); two chapters, "Ban Gu," and "Ban Biao," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers: Pre-ang Era (-598) (Bruccoli Clark Layman, forthcoming); an article, "Early-Modern Chinese Reactions to Western Missionary Iconography," in Southeast Review of Asian Studies (2008); an article, "Reflections on the Han View of Truth and Historicity with a Translation of Ban Biao's Essay of Historiography," in Southeast Review of Asian Studies (2006).

Selected presentations include: a paper, “Motives and Methods of Jesuit Book Production in Late Imperial China,” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting (2009); a lecture, “Resistance and Accommodation: The Catholic Church in Post Mao China,” at Princeton University (2009); a paper, "China and the Church Militant: Vatican Secret Archive Texts on the Conversion of China," at the Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies, South Carolina (2008); a paper, "China, Children, and the New Catechism: Jesuit Adaptation of Ertong wenxue,"at the American Oriental Society Western Branch Annual Meeting, California (2007); a paper, "Confucius Said What? Baobian and the Voice of Judgment in the Hanshu," at the American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, Texas (2007).

Received the Academic Affairs William's Fund Award for research at the Vatican Secret Archives and Pope's Private Library (2007-08); deemed an Honored Lecturer at the University of Alabama Graduate School Lecture Series (2007); received American Oriental Society Presenter's Award (2004); received the j. William Fulbright and NSEP David L. Boren Awards for research in Taipei, Taiwan (2001-02).

Member of the Association for Asian Studies; American Catholic Historical Association; American Historical Association; American Oriental Society; China Missions Group; and Society for Ming Studies.