Rebecca Beausaert is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph and a contract teaching faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Pursuing Play: Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914, with University of Manitoba Press (September 2024). Her current research interests include food, gender, sport, leisure, agriculture, and the First World War in rural and small-town Ontario.