Ahh I'm sorry I just saw this! Thanks so much for getting the book! 💛

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.

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...

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...

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...

Oh that's a REALLY good word!!

Thanks so much, Leon! I'm so glad you enjoyed it (AND that you bought the book 😁)

HAH! I love this mixup!!

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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

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...

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...

A woman in a yellow shirt and glasses smiles and holds a book entitled Whiskerology.

WHISKEROLOGY has been out in the world for two weeks now and I'm so excited and proud! 🎉

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...

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...

First interview with @sgoldmcbride.bsky.social (my amazing sister) for her upcoming book, Whiskerology, just dropped.

Listen, follow, buy her opus!