Books
My first book, The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2005. It is available in Canada through the University of Alberta Press. I co-edited One Step Over the Line: Toward an Inclusive History of Women in the North American West with Elizabeth Jameson. It was published in 2008 by the University of Alberta Press/Athabasca University Press. My textbook, Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. West, was published by Harlan Davidson in 2011 and is now only available through Amazon. My newest work, Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West, was published by Texas A&M Press in 2022. I co-edited Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences (Athabasca University Press, 2024) with Julie Young and Paul McKenzie Jones.
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Recent articles
“Borderlands: The OG Transnational History.” In Transnationalizing U.S. History, edited by Dirk Bönker and Paul Kramer. Palgrave-MacMillan (under contract)
McKenzie Jones, Young, and McManus, Introduction to a special issue of Studies in Social Justice (Vol 19 #2, 2025).
“The Pg. 99 Test: Sheila McManus’ Both Sides Now.” https://page99test.blogspot.com/2022/07/sheila-mcmanuss-both-sides-now.html
“Teaching ‘A Qin Legal Document: Memorial on the Burning of Books’,” in “100 Objects for Teaching Social Studies and History,” edited by Chad Reid. Detours: Social Science Education Research Journal Vol 2, #1 (2021). https://detoursjournal.org/index.php/detours
“Go Beyond the Research Essay with Engaging, Effective History Assignments.” Journal of American History March 2021: 963-967.
“Gunless as Settler-Colonial Borderlands Fantasy.” In Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film, edited by Janne Lahti and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower. New York and London: Routledge, 2020: 65-76.
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“Assignment: Describe and Defend.” In The Academic’s Handbook, Fourth Edition. Edited by Lori A, Flores and Jocelyn H. Olcott. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 178-179.
​Recent papers and presentations
2025 April. "First Year Courses: More to Love?" Co-presented with Aaron Stout at the SPARK teaching conference, University of Lethbridge.
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2024 May. “The Healing Power of Teaching World History,” paper presented at the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations conference, University of Lethbridge.
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2024 April. I organized two panels, “Time to ReSet” and “Teaching for Retention,” for the SPARK teaching conference, University of Lethbridge.
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2023 November. “Borders are Stupid.” Public Professor Talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj1xvoLcpmk
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2023 October. “Teaching in Troubled Times: Historiographies of Race and Nation in the College Classroom.” Chaired and commented on this panel at the Western History Association’s annual conference in Los Angeles, California.
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2023 March. “Historicizing North America’s Border Regimes,” paper presented at the “Bordering Migration: Theoretical Debates and Recent Developments in Border Policies and Practice,” conference, Toronto Metropolitan University.
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2023 February. “Finding the Borderlands in the Archives,” talk presented at the Galt Museum.
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2023 May. I organized one roundtable on the ReSet project and participated in another panel, “How to be compassionate without burning out,” for the SPARK Conference, University of Lethbridge.
2023 March. “Historicizing North America’s Border Regimes,” paper presented at the “Bordering Migration: Theoretical Debates and Recent Developments in Border Policies and Practice,” conference, Toronto Metropolitan University.
2023 February. “Finding the Borderlands in the Archives,” talk presented at the Galt Museum.
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2022 October. “From Friday the 13th of March, 2020, to a Manifesto on Excellence in Teaching: How Did We Get Here From There?” Co-presented with Dr Harold Jansen at the Educational Developers’ Network of Alberta’s Fall Meeting, hosted at the U of L.
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Podcasts
2023 October. Discussed Both Sides Now on the New Books Network's American West podcast.
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2021 April. “Border Boo-Boos.” Episode 7, History’s Greatest Screw-ups.
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