APSA South Asian Politics @apsasouthasia.bsky.social Official account of the South Asian Politics Section (55) at the American Political Science Association. Founded 2023.
Domestic & international politics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar & the Maldives.
Emily Gregory @ewarwick.bsky.social PhD student, University of Virginia Department of Politics
emilyegregory.com
Vishavjeet Dhanda @vdhanda.bsky.social Urban ethnographer | PhD | University of Delhi | Capturing everyday stories from Delhi's footpaths — where the social, spatial & political collide
#UrbanInformality
Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Hendrik Huelss, Anna Nadibaidze, Julia Simon, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, and Peter Marshall
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/current
António Valentim @antvalentim.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in European Politics at LSE
Prev. Postdoc at Yale & PhD from Humboldt Uni Berlin | Environmental politics, political behaviour, political elites.
antoniovalentim.github.io
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Sarah Gomm @sarahgomm.bsky.social PostDoc at University of Zurich & ETH Zurich. Research on environmental and climate politics. Running the Swiss Environmental Panel.
Prisca Jöst @priscajoest.bsky.social Postdoc at Cornell | Brooks School of Public Policy
Political participation, social inequality and development
Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social On the job market | Visiting Scholar, East Asia Center @UCSB | I teach at American University and San Diego Mesa College| PhD, International Relations, American University | international order, global governance, historical IR | www.friederdengler.com | 🇩🇪
Shiran Victoria Shen @svshen.bsky.social environmental politics professor @ WashU Poli Sci | author @ Cambridge UP - The Political Regulation Wave, Compliance with Public Policy | http://svshen.com
@talimendelberg.bsky.social @talimendelberg.bsky.social
Kristin Vekasi @profvekasi.bsky.social Professor of political science and international affairs, really into critical mineral and economic security policies in the Asia-Pacific
Governance and Local Development Institute @gldinstitute.bsky.social The Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD) is a research institute based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Cornell University, US. GLD aims to explain variations in governance and local development to promote global human welfare.
Tom Goodfellow @goodfellowtom.bsky.social Prof of Urban Studies and International Development @Sheffield uni. Cities, politics & political economy, migration & mobility, land, infrastructure, conflict. Part time Senior Research Fellow in Research & Evidence Directorate @FCDO. All views my own.
Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social Interested in politics, development, informality, (mostly in) South Asia | Asst. Prof Sociology, LUMS | LFC +🇵🇰 cricket fan
Noah Zucker @noahzucker.com Assistant professor at Princeton • PhD Columbia • political economy, climate change • www.noahzucker.com
Sean Fox @seanurban.bsky.social Cities, global development, political economy, science & miscellanea. Currently writing a book on *How we became an urban species*
All papers freely available here: https://sites.google.com/view/drseanfox/home
Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Maureen Donaghy @drmodonaghy.bsky.social Political Scientist, traveler, admirer of most things Brazil, mom, accidental dog owner. Writing a book about resident-engaged housing projects.
Fernando Bizzarro @fernandobizzarro.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science | Boston College
Democracy | Political parties | Latin America
Erin Hern @erinhern.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @Syracuse, African Politics, political behavior, resource governance, global energy transition
Shana Scogin @shanascogin.bsky.social Assistant professor @IUONeill 2026 | Prev postdoc @perryworldhouse @penn, PhD @NotreDame polisci, & @fulbrightnepal | governance, environ, disasters, #rstats | https://github.com/ShanaScogin | https://shanascogin.com
Robin King @robinnf.bsky.social DC now, formerly Bangalore, Austin, Mexico City, Niagara Falls NY. Teach political economy of cities at Georgetown U; Researcher at World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities but views here are my own.
Malini Sur @malinisur.bsky.social Director Graduate StudiesIIBook Prize @SouthAsiaAU. Bernard Cohn Prize (HM)@AASAsianStudies
JunglePassports (Penn 2021/Yoda 2023). Asso. Prof. Anthropology. Western Sydney University
https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/malini-sur
Gaurav Mittal @gauravmittal.bsky.social Urban Political Geographer | Researcher @tsuoxford.bsky.social | JRF @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social | Early Career Editor @rsa-tpg.bsky.social | Secretary @tgrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social | Research interests: transport governance, just transitions, political economy
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
Manjeet S. Pardesi @manjeetsp.bsky.social Global Order and Global History, Great Powers, Asia, China-India; Usual caveats; New Book - Divergent Worlds (Yale University Press, 2025)
Jessica Chen Weiss @jessicacweiss.bsky.social David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies SAIS Johns Hopkins, senior fellow Asia Society Center for China Analysis, previously Cornell, State Dept, Yale
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Allison P. Harris @allipatter.bsky.social Political scientist studying law and justice with not so secret dreams of headlining a Broadway variety show. Jersey to the core. 💕💚
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Tamir Moustafa @tamirmoustafa.bsky.social Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Adria Lawrence @aklawrence.bsky.social JHU Professor studying violence, nationalism, and colonialism; cook; mom; singer
Sneha Annavarapu @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social I’m a sociologist and ethnographer interested in transport, urban infrastructure, and gender in South Asia. I host authors of cool new books on the New Books Network, and the co-founder of Ethnographic Marginalia.
Visit www.snehanna.com for more info.
Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com. Author of When Rebels Win https://tinyurl.com/whenrebelswin
Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social Env & Climate Justice Prof | Author Decolonizing Environmentalism https://tinyurl.com/3v2fysfr | Editor @environmentalpol.bsky.social | GoogleScholar https://tinyurl.com/PKGSChlr | Ex-Chair @isaess.bsky.social | Dad, Husband
Vaishnavi Surendra @vaishnavisur.bsky.social Economist | Postdoc Researcher at Precision Development (PxD)
https://www.vaishnavisurendra.com/
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social Climber. Assistant Prof Drexel University. Studying police, repression & conflict. Fmr Carter Center, USIP, & Dartmouth Dickey Center. PhD Emory Polisci. Views are my own.
Alicia Cooperman @acooperman.bsky.social Asst Prof Polisci & Int'l Affairs at GWU | Environment & sustainable dev't | runner, traveler, yogi, knitter
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
Member, IAS School of Social Science, 2026-27
bradlow.princeton.edu
Christiana Parreira @cmparreira.bsky.social political scientist • assistant professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) • PhD Stanford • governance and elections in the Middle East
📍 geneva • beirut 🔗 christianaparreira.com
Francisco Garfias @fgarfias.bsky.social Associate Prof of Political Science at Duke University
http://franciscogarfias.com/
Lucas Novaes @lmnovaes.bsky.social Associate professor, Insper. Political economy, comparative politics. UC Berkeley grad.
www.lucasmnovaes.com
Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social Political economy, urban politics, APD, neoliberalism @ualbany. Editor @UrbanAffairsRev. Also, rugby, whiskey, whisky. Author of Blazing the Neoliberal Trail & Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City
tprweaver.com
Santiago Anria @anriasantiago.bsky.social Political scientist at Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social
@jwpaller.bsky.social @jwpaller.bsky.social
APSA Urban and Local Politics Section @apsaurban.bsky.social Updates from the @apsa.bsky.social #urbanpolitics section | Posts by @laurakettel.bsky.social | ✨ Get our newsletter: https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/ulp-newsletter-signup
Paasha Mahdavi @paashamahdavi.com UCSB prof, researching climate politics and the oil industry. EGAPE Lab Director and 2035 Initiative co-founder. Wrote a book on oil nationalization (https://tinyurl.com/2zyaf8bd). Working to transition from the fossil fuel era. Posts expire after 30 days.
Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford.
Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes.
Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946
More at www.vicentevalentim.com
Ling Chen @lingchenscholar.bsky.social William Clayton Chair and Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Political economy; state-business relations; economic, industrial and tax policies; authoritarian capitalism. https://www.lingchen-scholar.com/
Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social Social scientist, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Maria Carreri @mariacarreri.bsky.social Political Scientist. Assistant Professor at Bocconi. Previously AP at UC Berkeley and UCSD. Local Politics and Political Economy. IVF mamma.
www.mariacarreri.com
David Kaufmann @kaufmada.bsky.social Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, follow us @spurethz.bsky.social. I am researching and teaching policy and planning in and of the urban
Rachel Blaifeder @rblaifeder.bsky.social Publisher at Cambridge University Press, acquiring in political science and sociology.- D Deepika Padmanabhan @deepikapadmanabhan.bsky.social Poli Sci Postdoc @ Stanford | prev. Harvard, Yale | Language, Sub-nationalism, Identity
Aliz Toth @aliz-toth.bsky.social assistant prof in govt @ LSE 🇬🇧research on state capacity, land politics, migration in 🇮🇳🇭🇺otherwise enthusiastic cookie-cutter and coffee-drinker
Komal @kkaur.bsky.social Post-doc @PrincetonSPIA
Ph.D. @Cuboulder
Political behavior | State-society relations
Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social UM Prof. of Political Science + Director Michigan in Washington
study autocracies, believe in democracies, aspire to train future leaders
Divya Cherian @dillivali.bsky.social Historian of India/South Asia
Elizabeth Nugent @ernugent.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Veronica Herrera @veronicamherrera.bsky.social Prof @ UCLA: cities, environment, governance. Currently plastics, waste, circular economy, & climate change hazards/cities. Gardener.
Author of Slow Harms and Citizen Action: https://academic.oup.com/book/56168
Natalia Bueno @nataliasbueno.bsky.social Assistant professor of Political Science at Emory University. Comparative politics, nonstate welfare provision, comparative public policy, and elections/misinformation.
Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social Political scientist / Assistant professor of European politics at LSE / WUSTL PhD www.miguel-m-pereira.com
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Bath, author of Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy bit.ly/3wzcTGM. Editor, LSQ. gender quotas, parties, gender & far right, mental load #academicmama https://anacweeks.github.io/
Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social Political scientist at Penn. Comparative politics, parties, elections, electoral systems, representation, Japanese politics.
Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social Polisci, political econ. of redistribution, membership politics, measurement, insurance, free riding perceptions, in no special order. Looking for a book titled "Fair Enough?" ? Here it is 👇
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366038
https://a.co/d/b6yL5d3
Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa.
danieltavana.com- R Rajeshwari Majumdar @rmajumdar.bsky.social Political scientist; GW faculty
https://r-majumdar.github.io/
- N @neelanjansircar.bsky.social @neelanjansircar.bsky.social
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social Professor of Practice at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Andrew Wyatt @andrewwyatt.bsky.social Tree fan, Francophile. Watches cricket. Studies nationalism. Teaches South Asia too! @ University of Bristol. Own views.
Eyal Hanfling @eyalhanfling.com democracy / technology research
eyalhanfling.com | 📍brooklyn, ny
Eunji Kim @eunjikim.bsky.social Media scholar | Assistant Professor of Political Science @Columbia | Author of The American Mirage (PUP 2025) | Host of Media Effects Empricial Workshop (MEEW)
Andrea Malji @amalji.bsky.social Professor. Researches South Asia, conflict, environmental security . Fulbright-Nehru alum, Kerala 2022. Views here are my own.
Harris Mylonas @harrismylonas.bsky.social ▫️Prof. of Political Science @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Director of IERES @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Editor-in-chief of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social
▫️Nationalism | nation-building | migration | diasporas
🔗 https://harrismylonas.com
Paul Kenny @kennypd.bsky.social Political scientist (populism, democracy, identity politics, corruption). https://pauldkenny.com
Avital Livny @avitallivny.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Pol Science @ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethnicity & religion; Turkey & Middle East; measurement
More here: www.alivny.com
Adnan (Dann) Naseemullah @dnaseemullah.bsky.social Professor of Comparative & South Asian Politics, Fellow at Wolfson, University of Oxford | www.naseemullah.com | Author: Development after Statism (Cambridge UP 2017); Patchwork States (Cambridge UP 2022); co-author, Righteous Demagogues (Oxford UP 2024).
Jacob Hacker @jacobhacker.bsky.social Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
David Stasavage @stasavage.bsky.social Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor, Department of Politics, NYU. Author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today.
Ward Berenschot @wardb.bsky.social Political anthropologist - studies politics of Indonesia and India - writes about land conflicts between palm oil companies and rural Indonesians. KITLV & University of Amsterdam
Oliver Heath @olliheath.bsky.social Professor of politics
Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social Co-Author of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (Oct. 2026)
Author of White-Collar Government and The Cash Ceiling
Co-Editor of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 1 & 2
Bio/Foster/Adoptive Parent
Boycott "a.i."
Opinions my own (not my employer's)
Liz Suhay @lizsuhay.bsky.social Political scientist at American University. Political psychology/economic inequality/politicization of science. Author of Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics. www.elizabethsuhay.com/debating-the-american-dream
Natan Skigin @natanski.bsky.social • Asst. Prof. at UGA (@ugaintl.bsky.social)
• Researching violence, migration, identity, and democracy in Latin America
• Website: natanskigin.com
Ryan Jablonski @ryanjablonski.bsky.social LSE political scientist studying elections, foreign aid & public spending
www.ryanjablonski.com
Monika Nalepa @monikanalepa.bsky.social Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab, Global Transitional Justice Dataset, PI
"After Authoritarianism" and "Skeletons in the Closet", author.
Owned by #Badshah, the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Melissa Schwartzberg @maschwar.bsky.social Princeton. Specialist in democratic theory. Supermajority rule skeptic before it was cool. Co-author of Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining (Harvard UP, 2024).
Emily Rains @erains.bsky.social International development: 🇮🇳 cities, informality, and gender | Asst. Prof of Political Science at Tulane | Ada's mom
New Orleans via California > New York > India > North Carolina > Baton Rouge
https://www.ekrains.com
@anjalithomas.bsky.social @anjalithomas.bsky.social
Ed Schatz @edwardschatz.bsky.social Political Scientist, Central Asianist, University of Toronto
Posting about politics, authoritarianism, and Central Asia.
Asli Cansunar @aslicansunar.bsky.social Prof of political science @UW | inequality, taxation, public services, Ottoman Empire & Turkey | http://aslicansunar.com | http://istanbultelephonedirectories.com
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner @jdbk.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Urban and local politics + policy; cyclist; 🏳️🌈; he/him.
Dan Berliner @danberliner.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, LSE. (he/him).
Studying transparency, accountability, participation.
http://www.danielberliner.com/
Ariel R. White @arielrwhite.bsky.social https://arwhite.mit.edu/