Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum.
https://tinyurl.com/4snsdvzf
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social narrator & protagonist of her own life | echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) | Crips for eSims for Gaza bit.ly/eSimsRUs
website: janeshi.org
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Vic Michaelis @vicmmic.bsky.social actor + improviser + sorry about the birds
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social Writer, community journalist, public historian. Memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE coming 4/26. Words in SF Chronicle, Zocalo Public Square, Smithsonian, Discover Nikkei, The Rumpus. 4ever English major. <3: @joshpar.bsky.social Rep: Transatlantic Agency
Lilly J. Goren @gorenlj.bsky.social Political Scientist. Pop Culture Enthusiast. Cook. Knitter. Always solving mysteries in small British villages. 
Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social Artist & mathematician. I’m serious, I am mathematician. She/her. Actually autistic 🚲
Aspiring polyglot:
🇹🇭🇨🇳🇭🇰🇱🇦🇰🇭🇩🇪
I used to be a tattooer until I took an arrow to the knee
https://linktr.ee/Acid_Lich?utm_source=linkt
Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social Official account of the JHI Blog. Zac Endter, Tomi Onabanjo, and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa.
Listen to In Theory: http://soundcloud.com/jhi-blog
JHIBlog.org
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Adrian Miller, CSP @soulfoodscholar.bsky.social Two-time James Beard Award-winning author, Certified Speaking Professional™, recovering attorney, and certified barbecue judge living the Miller high life in Denver, Colorado whose mission is to unite the world through the universal language of food.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. Supporting research, events, and books on issues of public concern.
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social All about books since 1994. Subscribe to our print magazine today.
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, living in NYC / “It’s really hard not to mention, llamas.”
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
mischa. @faulttolerant.bsky.social 40|he/him | historian, Ph.D from UMD |fil-am| this isn't just your dream.
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social asst prof of history at temple // they/them
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Jodi A Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social Chickasaw, Professor of Race, Diaspora, Indigeneity at U Chicago, author of Transit of Empire (Minnesota, 2011) and Indigenomicon (Duke, 2025)
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”- K Kritee Ahmed @k-unit.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, sociologist, public transit enthusiast, politics junkie
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Political scientist who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Fed Up: A History of Why You're So Stressed About What to Feed the Kids by Carla Cevasco (Spring 27, a W. Hodding Carter III book) and Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão (2/27, RHPG)
kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social chaotic good. co-host of #pagesandprejudice pod. editor of i hate my job. writer. portrait photographer. chronically just like other girls. hot take generator.
adrie [at] adrierose [dot] link
🌐: adrierose.link/adrierising
Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
@adamsol.bsky.social @adamsol.bsky.social Poet, prof, point guard, pater, not necessarily in that order.
https://howapemmoves.wordpress.com
https://www.vic.utoronto.ca/about-victoria/centre-for-creativity/
http://adamsol.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
☀️Video Game Tax Credit man☀️ @belthazzar.bsky.social Shitpost enthusiast
Very into sharing
he/him
Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.northsky.social Poet | Writer | Filmmaker | Scholar |
Editor, @screenanarchy.bsky.social |
OFCS, AQCC, Fipresci | Tiohtià:ke/Montréal |
Letterboxd, https://boxd.it/6L6X |
she/they
https://shelaghrowanlegg.com/
Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendy.bsky.social Writer, professor, casually anxious.
Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social Human poet/artist. Latest book NMLCT: POEMS from ECW Press. Professor at Sheridan College. Senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn. Editor-in-chief at The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. wererabbit on Bandcamp. https://linktr.ee/paulvermeersch
Adrian Weimer @acweimer.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, early modern religion & politics. New book: A Constitutional Culture http://bit.ly/3hJ1Abc
David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social Historian (political economy, class, culture), writer, editor, teacher. Author of:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281400
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
The Organization of American Historians @oah.org Advocating for history. Advancing scholarship. Connecting the past to the present.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social global citizen landed in Southeast Asia from Europe - former Asia regional director Rockefeller Foundation & IDRC, senior adviser Ausaid (DFAT) and program officer Ford Foundation, now founding director @seajunction.bsky.social (www.rosaliasciortino.com)
Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies @ucsbkalfou.bsky.social A journal centered on social movements and relations, linking educators, artists, & activists in the struggle for social justice.
Read: https://tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/kalfou/
Podcast: "Kalfou: Community Centered" on Spotify, Apple, & iHeart.
Andrea Ballestero @aballes2.bsky.social Anthropologist / A Future History of Water (Duke 2019)/ @ethnographystudio.bsky.social / No more groundwater, more aquifers!/ property & finance, underground worlds, science
www.andreaballestero.com
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social pulitzer? i barely know her!
Jenny Xu @jennyxu.bsky.social editing @ atria and @wspbooks.bsky.social
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal- W @wwingwong.bsky.social @wwingwong.bsky.social
Lisa Yoneyama @lisaencat.bsky.social I write and teach about memory, violence, justice, and nuclear colonialism. Hiroshima Traces (1999), Perilous Memories (2001), War, Violence, Redress (2003), Cold War Ruins (2016), and Co-Conjuring (forthcoming)
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. 
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social All things Southeast Asian Studies, all the time.
http://Facebook.com/GETSEA2021
http://Instagram.com/GETSEA2021
http://X.com/GETSEA_
Matt Farish @mattfarish.bsky.social Historical geographer, University of Toronto; Affiliate, U of T's Centre for the Study of the US. Writing a book about climate labs, survival schools, and the 20th-c. US militarization of the planet. Distracted by AC Milan and ⚽️. Posts are personal.
Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu
history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing
disability studies / disability arts
banner: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730402
avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches
Jorge Ramirez-Lopez @jorgeramirezlopez.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies | Writing about Indigenous Oaxacan migration, culture, and politics since the late 20th century
Jorgeramirezlopez.com
Justin F Jackson, Ph.D. @justinfdjackson.bsky.social justinfjackson.com
Historian, author of The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines (UNC Press, 2025)
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social Posts by immigration attorney Adam S. Greenberg (IANYL (yet))
University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu Mission-driven nonprofit publisher committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good, serving intellectually curious readers for over 100 years.
uwapress.uw.edu
Dr. BRO @drbro.bsky.social Hupa NDN
#freepalestine
#fuckICE
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved—KV
Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social PhD in History, professor of Feminist + Social Justice Studies; food, environmental, gender, +tech history, queer, founder of Disrupting Disruptions
https://www.alexketchum.ca/
https://linktr.ee/aketchum
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
@bw-historiadora.bsky.social @bw-historiadora.bsky.social I teach history and study Brazil
And I want to see fewer cat photos!
Veneno Remedio @venenoremedio.bsky.social Silence is complicity. Complicity is collaboration.
Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social Author of This Colonial Present (forthcoming) & Poverty in Common; ed. of Formations of US Colonialism; co-ed. of For Antifascist Futures & Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization, vol IV (in progress)
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social Independent Journalist. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Lily Hart @lilyhhart.bsky.social Historian of the PNW, settler colonialism and history of historical/ heritage societies | PhD at the University of British Columbia | settler on unceded Musqueam land | she/her
Liz Matsushita @lamats.bsky.social Historian of North Africa and the Middle East, interested in music, culture, (post)colonialism, race, the desert 🌵 Californian millennial Yonsei in Oregon 🌲
Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social assistant prof @uchicago. black study. caribbean anthro. yaadie. anarcho-zesser. author of the petro-state masquerade ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 http://bit.ly/3z2Geyk. yankees. nets. jets. chelsea fc.
Deanna Bowen @narrowrooms.bsky.social Artist. Educator. Rebel Rouser: https://linktr.ee/narrowrooms
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Hana Maruyama @hcmaruyama.bsky.social Asst Prof, History, Asian & Asian American Studies and Native American & Indigenous Studies at UConn. Researching WW2 Japanese Americans & US settler colonialism. Connoisseur of desserts, dog mom. My views≠my employer's
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Elizabeth Bluth @elizabluth.bsky.social writer & higher ed professional 📍Los Angeles | dog & cat mom | MFA @ The New School; MEd @ USC Rossier
Natalie J. Ring @historycounts.bsky.social Historian of many things in the US South. Trying to learn some law to write my next book. Night owl. Feral cat wrangler (TNR). Living in TX. Native of western MA.
Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social Historian of US empire, environment, coconuts. Former provincial New Yorker turned Montreal outsider.