[1] While there, she published her first book titled "Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany" through the Princeton University Press.
[1] During her tenure, she was the recipient of the Izaac Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship[5] and named a Distinguished Junior Scholar.
[6] Ford eventually left UBC in 2004 to join the faculty of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
[8] In 2011, Ford and her husband Sanjay Subrahmanyam were elected Guggenheim Fellows which allowed her to research in Europe.
[11] Later that year, she published her third book titled "Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France," which explores French environmental consciousness in the 18th and 19th centuries.