About this project
EQBreeds invites you to learn more about the ways questions about breed shaped (and were shaped by) human/horse relationships from the sixteenth century to the present. 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.
This project draws on research funded by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant.
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)
Exhibit Editors
Breed as Modern Identity:
Kristen Guest, Professor University of Northern British Columbia
Monica Mattfeld, Assistant Professor University of Northern British Columbia
Clydesdale:
Margaret Derry, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Guelph
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
Mountain Horse:
Dan Renfrow, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wells College
Stephanie McSpirit, Foundation Professor Sociology, Eastern Kentucky University
Neil Kasiak, Oral Historian and Archivist, Eastern Kentucky University
Chad Cogdill, Associate Professor School of Communication, Eastern Kentucky University
Jeff Cawood, Assistant Professor History, Union College Barbourville Kentucky
The Tarpan and Takhi:
Susanna Forrest, Independent Scholar
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia
Thoroughbred:
Richard Nash, Professor Emeritus English, Indiana University
Kristen Guest, Professor of English, University of Northern British Columbia