Professor of History
Education: PhD, Fordham University, 1994
Office: Ferguson Social Science Room 126
Phone: 903-886-5546
Email address: Judy.Ford@tamuc.edu

Research Interests
Medieval Europe, European Reformations, Popular Religion, J. R. R. Tolkien

Recent Publications
“Saracens and Turks in William Caxton’s Golden Legend.” Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies 2, no.1 (2015): 221-244.

"…things that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be:"  Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings On-Line" in Approaches to Teaching J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works. ed. Leslie Donovan. Approaches to Teaching World Literature.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2015. Co-written with Robin Anne Reid.

"Women of the Cinematic Middle Ages in Red Riding Hood and Brave: Marriage or Monsters" in The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre. ed. Helen Young. Cambria Studies in Classicism, Orientalism, and Medievalism. Amherst: Cambria Press, 2015.

John Mirk's Festial: Orthodoxy, Lollardy and the Common Peoplein Fourteenth-Century England. Cambridge, England: D.S. Brewer, 2006.

Recent Courses Taught-Undergraduate
World Civilizations to the Seventeenth Century
Early Modern Europe

Recent Courses Taught-Graduate
Colloquium in Medieval Europe
History for Middle and High School Teachers