Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Gold McBride
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- sarahgoldmcbride@berkeley.edu
- Affiliation
- Lecturer, Program in American Studies | University of California, Berkeley
- Website URL
- http://sarahgoldmcbride.com/
- Keywords
- 19th century, United States, cultural history, social history, hair, facial hair, beards, bodies, freak shows, wigs, fake hair, popular entertainment, pop culture, popular science
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sarah Gold McBride is a Lecturer with the Program in American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching focus on the social and cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States, and on history pedagogy. Her book, Whiskerology, which examines the power and significance of hair in the nineteenth-century United States, is under contract with Harvard University Press. Dr. Gold McBride is also a co-founder of The Teaching History Conference and the current Executive Director of the Western Association of Women Historians.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/11/10/whiskers-and-locks-reading-u-s-history-through-hair/
- Social Media
- @sgoldmcbride
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Material Culture, Pedagogy, Race, Science, Women