Mark Ormrod is a Professor in the Department of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of York. His research interests lie in the political structures and ideas of later medieval England. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, has served on a number of AHRC committees, is a Trustee of the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, a Councillor of the Pipe Roll Society, and a former Councillor of the Royal Historical Society.

Chair of the British Academy English Episcopal Acta Project and a member of the Comitato Scientifico of the Datini Institute, Prato, Mark is a former general editor of York Medieval Press, a member of the editorial board of the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal and a co-editor ofFourteenth-Century England.