Sarah Gold McBride
@sgoldmcbride.bsky.social
Lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley | Historian of 19th c: race, gender, bodies, hair studies | Author of WHISKEROLOGY (Harvard, 2025)
My book was reviewed in The New Yorker!
It is absolutely jaw-dropping and surreal to type that sentence. Thank you to Margaret Talbot at @newyorker.com for such a thorough and delightful write-up of WHISKEROLOGY!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It is absolutely jaw-dropping and surreal to type that sentence. Thank you to Margaret Talbot at @newyorker.com for such a thorough and delightful write-up of WHISKEROLOGY!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The First Time America Went Beard Crazy
A sweeping new history explores facial hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My book was reviewed in The New Yorker!
It is absolutely jaw-dropping and surreal to type that sentence. Thank you to Margaret Talbot at @newyorker.com for such a thorough and delightful write-up of WHISKEROLOGY!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It is absolutely jaw-dropping and surreal to type that sentence. Thank you to Margaret Talbot at @newyorker.com for such a thorough and delightful write-up of WHISKEROLOGY!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Thanks so much to everyone who joined me for the AMA today! It was so much fun!! Thank you especially to @dhowlett1692.bsky.social for the information and for all the great advice. More on so many of the things we talked about can be found in my book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Whiskerology — Harvard University Press
A surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging.Hair is always and every...
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July 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Thanks so much to everyone who joined me for the AMA today! It was so much fun!! Thank you especially to @dhowlett1692.bsky.social for the information and for all the great advice. More on so many of the things we talked about can be found in my book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Happening now on r/AskHistorians: AMA! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Ask Me Anything! 🙋♀️ This Friday July 18th, I'll be answering questions about all things 19th-century hair in a Reddit AMA! Join me starting at 9 am ET in the subreddit r/AskHistorians: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... 💇♀️💈➿
July 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ask Me Anything! 🙋♀️ This Friday July 18th, I'll be answering questions about all things 19th-century hair in a Reddit AMA! Join me starting at 9 am ET in the subreddit r/AskHistorians: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... 💇♀️💈➿
An episode about WHISKEROLOGY on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast just dropped! newbooksnetwork.com/whiskerology
Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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June 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
An episode about WHISKEROLOGY on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast just dropped! newbooksnetwork.com/whiskerology
It's been a good year for hair studies, including last fall's publication of @elizabethlblock.bsky.social's book BEYOND VANITY! My review was published in the latest issue of #JournalPanorama today @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social
journalpanorama.org/article/beyo...
journalpanorama.org/article/beyo...
Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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June 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It's been a good year for hair studies, including last fall's publication of @elizabethlblock.bsky.social's book BEYOND VANITY! My review was published in the latest issue of #JournalPanorama today @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social
journalpanorama.org/article/beyo...
journalpanorama.org/article/beyo...
WHISKEROLOGY has been out in the world for two weeks now and I'm so excited and proud! 🎉
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
WHISKEROLOGY has been out in the world for two weeks now and I'm so excited and proud! 🎉
Came here to post a link to my first radio interview, with the Australian radio program Late Night Live, and found that my brother had already done so! What a great publicist! 😍 Check out the podcast here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Australians in the Spanish Civil War, and when hair was thought to indicate character - ABC listen
Approximately 70 Australians risked their lives to fight Franco's fascism in the Spanish Civil War, but they are not honoured in Australia. And, whiskerology - one term for the 19th century American m...
www.abc.net.au
May 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Came here to post a link to my first radio interview, with the Australian radio program Late Night Live, and found that my brother had already done so! What a great publicist! 😍 Check out the podcast here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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First interview with @sgoldmcbride.bsky.social (my amazing sister) for her upcoming book, Whiskerology, just dropped.
Listen, follow, buy her opus!
Listen, follow, buy her opus!
Australians in the Spanish Civil War, and when hair was thought to indicate character - ABC listen
Approximately 70 Australians risked their lives to fight Franco's fascism in the Spanish Civil War, but they are not honoured in Australia. And, whiskerology - one term for the 19th century American m...
www.abc.net.au
April 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
First interview with @sgoldmcbride.bsky.social (my amazing sister) for her upcoming book, Whiskerology, just dropped.
Listen, follow, buy her opus!
Listen, follow, buy her opus!