- "Women and the Roman Catholic Church: In Search of Equal Recognition" (1995)
- "Unholy Alliance: Catholic Nuns in Post-Reformation Italy" (2001)
- "Catholic and Civic Cultures in Early Modern Italy" (2002)
- "A New World Catholic: Saints, Statuary, and Politics in New Mexico and Beyond" (2008)
- "Mary Magdalen in Medieval Literature" (2014)
- "Religion and Ritual in Italy" (2018)
Articles and chapters in books:
- "A Woman on Top: Nuns in Power in Post-Reformation Italy" in "Renaissance Studies" (1999)
- "Gendering Saints, Sanctifying Gender in Seventeenth-Century Naples" in "Catholic History and Heritage" (2002)
- "Between Tradition and Enlightenment: Convent Art in Southern Italy (1734-1875)" in "Journal of Modern Italian Studies" (2005)
- "The Life and Work of Sister Blandina Segale, RSM of Durango, Colorado" in "The Mountain West Review" (2008)
- "The Religious Experience of Italian-American Immigrants in Denver during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" in "US Catholic Historian" (2017)