Sharon Myers' publications about women and children in the Maritimes have appeared in Separate Sphere: Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1994); Children's Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture: Essays on Childhood (Guelph: Children's Literature Press, 1995); Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford Press, 1997); and Dictionary of Canadian Biography,Vol XIV (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).

Her most recent project focuses on the New Brunswick Child Welfare Survey, 1927-1933, and considers the dynamics among the family, civil society, and the state. Sharon teaches courses in modern Canadian history, including courses in women's, social, and cultural history.