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I received my MA in History from Western University in 2006 and my PhD in History from York University in 2013. I joined Laurier in 2014 as a Contract Teaching Faculty member and have taught in the departments of History, Youth and Children's Studies, and Kinesiology and Physical Education. I am also an occasional instructor in the Brantford Foundations program.
My research interests include Canadian rural and gender history, with a focus on food, agriculture, sport, and leisure.
- Canadian Historical Association Teaching Prize (Early or Alternative Career – Canadian History) [2023]
- Dorothy Duncan Award for Public History (for “Oxford Remembers: Oxford’s Own” project), presented by the Ontario Historical Society [2018-2019]
- Sessional & CLA Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts, University of Guelph [2015]
- Ramsay Cook Fellowship for Canadian History, York University [2011]
- United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada (UELAC) Award, UELAC Toronto branch [2010]
- Beausaert, Rebecca. Pursuing Play: Women's Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914 [forthcoming September 2024 with University of Manitoba Press]
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “Not Guilty, but Guilty: Race, Rumour, and Respectability in the 1882 Abortion Trial of Letitia Munson,” Ontario History 106 (2) (Fall 2014): 165-190.
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “‘Young Rovers’ and ‘Dazzling Lady Meteors': Gender and Bicycle Club Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Small-Town Ontario,” Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 36 (1) (2013): 33-61.
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “‘Foreigners in Town': Leisure, Consumption, and Cosmopolitanism in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Tillsonburg, ON,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 23 (1) (2012): 215-247.
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “Why was the U.S. Civil War one of the ‘bloodiest wars of all time’?” The Mirror 25 (2005): 47-59.
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “’Both silly and loose’: Deconstructing Female Criminal Behaviour in Oxford County, Ontario, 1871-1914,” in Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader, 2nd Edition, eds. Dimitry Anastakis and James Onusko. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [in press; expected publication – Winter 2024]
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “Not Guilty but Guilty? Race, Rumour, and Respectability in the 1882 Abortion Trial of Letitia Munson,” in Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler, eds. Shannon Stettner, Kristin Burnett, and Travis Hay, 55-73. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017.
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “The 19th Century Bicycle Craze in Ontario,” Better Farming (March 2019): 117.
- Beausaert, Rebecca. “’Happy Homes Make Happy Hearts’: Women, Families, and Domestic Leisure in Elora, ON, 1870-1914,” Wellington County History 25 (2012): 7-19.
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