Professor Ames teaches surveys of Medieval Europe and of Western Civilization, as well as more specialized courses on the history of the Middle Ages. She has published several articles, including "Does Inquisition Belong to Religious History?", which appeared in The American Historical Review (February 2005).

Current Activities:

I am currently completing a book on the formation of the religious world of heresy inquisitions in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. My next project will be a religious history of wine in the later Middle Ages.