Jen Manion is a social and cultural historian, author, and professor of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College.
[1] Manion is the author of Female Husbands: A Trans History and Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America.
[5][6] In 2021, Manion became a full professor at Amherst[7] and received an honorary masters of arts degree.
"[5] In 2015, as an associate professor of history at Connecticut College, Manion published Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America.
[9] In a 2016 interview, while discussing a developing research and writing project then titled "Born in the Wrong Time: Transgender Archives and the History of Possibility, 1770-1870," Manion stated, "most of the records are about such people rather than by them, so I try to write about people in broad, expansive ways that create space and possibility for how they might have lived, how they understood themselves, and how other people viewed and treated them", and further stated, "This project is partly about recovering an archive but it also very much about how we think and write about the past as well.