McManus, Sheila
Faculty
History and Religion Department
- Phone
- (403) 329-2540
- sheila.mcmanus@uleth.ca
Biography
I grew up in Calgary and completed my B.A. (Honours and Co-op) at the U of C in 1992. After finishing my M.A. at UVic in 1994 and Ph.D. at York University in 2001, I was appointed 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, and joined the University of Lethbridge in 2003. I teach courses in World History, historiography and methodology, and the histories of the American and Canadian Wests. In 2018 I was awarded the U of L's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Current Research
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Publications
My publications include:
The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands (University of Nebraska Press, 2005);
One Step Over the Line: Toward an Inclusive History of Women in the North American West (Athabasca University Press, 2008), co-edited with Elizabeth Jameson;
Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. West (Wiley, 2010);
Both Sides Now: Writing the Borderlands of the North American West (Texas A&M Press, 2022);
One Step Over the Line: Toward an Inclusive History of Women in the North American West (Athabasca University Press, 2008), co-edited with Elizabeth Jameson;
Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. West (Wiley, 2010);
Both Sides Now: Writing the Borderlands of the North American West (Texas A&M Press, 2022);
Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences, co-edited with Paul McKenzie-Jones and Julie Young (Athabasca University Press, 2025)
I have also published chapters and articles in Agricultural History (1999); The Journal of American Ethnic History (2001); Telling Tales: Essays In Western Women's History (2001); the Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (2003); One West: Two Myths: A Comparative Reader (2004); The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on the Regional History of the 49th Parallel (2008); The World of the American West (2011); The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States (2017); Cinematic Settlers: The Settler-Colonial World in Film (2020); and Transnationalizing US History (forthcoming)Degrees
Ph.D. (History) York University, 2001
MA (History) University of Victoria, 1994
BA (Honors and Co-op) University of Calgary, 1992
Research Interests
My primary research fields are the history of the borderlands of the North American West, and teaching and learning in higher education.
Personal Website
Expertise
Borderlands of the North American West West
History of race, gender, and sexuality in the North American West
Global borderlands
Methodology and historiography
Teaching and learning in higher education
History of race, gender, and sexuality in the North American West
Global borderlands
Methodology and historiography
Teaching and learning in higher education