About
I am a Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta. My research focuses on the borderlands of the North American West, and I am one of the co-editors of the H-Borderlands network. I teach the histories of the North American West, borderlands, historiography and methodology, and world history. In 2001-2002 I was the first Post-Doctoral Associate at the Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. I taught American and Canadian history at the University of Winnipeg in 2002-03, before joining the U of L History Department in 2003.
Education
2001. Ph.D., York University, Toronto, Ontario. Dissertation: “‘The line which separates’: Race, Gender, and the Alberta-Montana Borderlands 1862-1892.”
1994. M.A., University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
1992. B.A. (Honours and Co-op), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
Publications
The Line which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus, eds. One Step Over the Line: Toward an Inclusive History of Women in the North American West. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press and Athabasca University Press, 2008.
Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. West. Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2011.
Projects
Current projects
Both Sides Now: Writing the Borderlands of the North American West. Monograph under contract to Texas A&M University Press.
Memberships
American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Western History Association, World History Association
