About This Project
EQBreeds invites you to learn more about the ways questions about breed shaped (and were shaped by) human/horse relationships. The site features exhibits that focus on specific breeds and also includes an introductory exhibit that provides an overview of the collection as a whole.
The content presented here brings together the work of scholars whose research focuses on the ways equine breeds have evolved alongside and in relation to human populations. Exhibits included here draw on diverse disciplinary expertise to highlight specific historical moments or issues in the development of individual breeds.
Equine Breed and the Making of Modern Identity is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Contributors
General Editor: Kristen Guest
Kristen Guest is a Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia. The editor of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty for Broadview Press, her publications include articles and book chapters focusing on the Thoroughbred and the Chincoteague Pony. With Monica Mattfeld, she is co-editor of Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2018) Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse (Routledge 2019), and special issues of Humanimalia focusing on Breed (2020) and New Directions in Horse/Human Relationships (2022).
Project Research Assistants and Web Developers:
Mariah Snih (2021)
Katie Baerg (2021-2022)
Ronja Frank (2022-2023)
Tierney Watkinson (2023-2026)
Exhibit Editors
"Equine Breeds and Modern Identity: Introduction"
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"The Brazilian Crioulo: Breed as Evolving Tradition"
Miriam Adelman, Professor of Sociology and Literary Studies, Federal University of Paraná
Ana Lucia Camphora
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"The Brumby: Heritage, National Identity, and Anxieties of Belonging"
Isa Menzies, Independent Scholar
Kristen Guest, Professor University of Northern British Columbia
"The Clydesdale: The Transition From Type to Breed"
Margaret Derry, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Guelph
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"The Icelandic Horse: Stories and Spaces of Horses and People"
Catherine Nash, Professor of Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"The Mountain Horse: The Horse That Built Kentucky"
Dan Renfrow, Associate Professor of Sociology
Stephanie McSpirit, Emerita Foundation Professor of Sociology, Eastern Kentucky University
Neil Kasiak, Oral Historian and Archivist, Eastern Kentucky University
Chad Cogdill, Associate Professor of School of Communication, Eastern Kentucky University
Jeff Cawood, Assistant Professor of History, Union College Barbourville Kentucky
"The Straight Egyptian Arabian"
Christoph Lange, Department for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"The Tarpan and Takhi: Inventing the Wild Horse"
Susanna Forrest, Independent Scholar
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"The Thoroughbred," Introduction and Parts 1-3
Richard Nash, Professor Emeritus of English, Indiana University
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"Thoroughbred History in the Round: The NSLM Sporting Screen"
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
"The Turkoman Horse: Creaturely Cosmopolitanism and Multicultural Breed"
Donna Landry, Emerita Professor of English, University of Kent
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
