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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.  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.  In 2018 I won the University of Lethbridge’s Distinguished Teaching Award.  I teach the histories of the North American West, borderlands, historiography and methodology, and world history.

Recent Publications

“Border/lands – a Historiographical Survey.”  In The Routledge History of the 20th Century United States.  Jerald Podair and Darren Dochuk, eds.  New York: Routledge, 2018: 292-301.

Choices and Chances: A History of Women in the U.S. West.  Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2011.

“Chapter 8: The Borderlands of the US West.” In The World of the American West.  Edited by Gordon Bakken.  New York: Routledge, 2010: 201-233.

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.

The Line which Separates: Race, Gender and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands.  Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

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Canada/United States

Expertise by Geography

North America

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Colonialism, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Pedagogy, Women