Professor Born is the Payne H. and Charlotte Hodges Midyette Eminent Scholar in Risk Management and Insurance at the Florida State College of Business. She serves as the Doctoral Program Director of Risk Management/Insurance in the Real Estate and Legal Studies Department at the Florida State University College of Business.

Professor Born's research interests include insurance market performance, insurance regulation, products and medical professional liability and management of catastrophic risks. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and Risk Management and Insurance Review, among others.