Lisa McCracken Lacy is a lecturer in the British Empire and Middle East History at Texas Tech University and has served as a visiting professor in Middle East History at Baylor University. Lacy holds a BA and MA from Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a Churchill Scholar, member ... Read moreof the Junior Fellows and of the British Studies seminar. She is an internationally recognized Arabian horse judge and has written the Arabian horse entry in the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa and co-written the Standard of Excellence, breed standard for the Egyptian Arabian horse. Show Less