Rural History Roundtable – Speaker Series Winter 2026

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The History Department at the University of Guelph presents

Rural History Roundtable: Speaker Series Winter 2026

Sponsored by the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History

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Tacit Terrains: A Look at Tacit Knowledge Development in Ontario Dairy Farmers

Carelle Sarkis, History, McMaster University

MacKinnon Building, Room 132
Thursday, January 22, 3:30-5:00pm EST

Public Health in Rural Alberta and Settler Colonialism as a Structure, 1919-71

Emily Kaliel, History, University of Guelph

Virtual Presentation
Thursday, February 12, 3:30-5:00pm EST

Goats in America: From the Poor Man’s Cow to Urban Icon

Tami Parr, Author and Historian

Virtual Presentation
Thursday, March 12, 3:30-5:00pm EST

Rural History Roundtable Speaker Series Winter 2026
Feature Image: Goat. American Art Museum. Solon H. Borglum, born Ogden, UT 1868-died Stamford, CT 1922. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Mervyn Davies. 1971.446.227.
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Rebecca Beausaert

Rebecca Beausaert is an assistant professor and holder of the Francis and Ruth Redelmeier Professorship in Rural History at the University of Guelph. She is the author of Pursuing Play: Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914, published by University of Manitoba Press in September 2024. Her research interests include food, gender, sport, leisure, agriculture, and the First World War in rural and small-town Ontario.

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