UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures @unescochairlnu.bsky.social #HeritageFutures w/ Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg, Emily Hanscam, Sarah May, Leila Papoli-Yazdi, Gustav Wollentz, Claudio Pescatore, Marcy Rockman & Helena Rydén. Our DMs are open!
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
Tim Lubin @timlubin.bsky.social Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. President of the American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Laura Peers @laurapeers.bsky.social Curator and historian. Museum repatriation and provenance consultant. Happiest in museums, archives, outdoors. www.laurapeers.com.
Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social Anthropologist/Decolonialism/Provenance research
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org
http://uni-bonn.academia.edu/DiegoBallestero
http://transformationalhps.org
Anders Ackfeldt @ackfeldt.bsky.social PhD in History of Religions, Deputy Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). Malmö/Istanbul.
“If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life? That’s easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it.”
Bacara Spruit @bacaraspruit.bsky.social South African archaeologist specialising in ZooMS, stable isotopes, and zooarchaeology.
Current chair of the Southern African Archaeology Student Society https://www.saassarchaeology.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/saassociety.bsky.social
Rocco Rotunno @roccoro.bsky.social Prehistory, pottery and African archaeology🏺🌍|The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara @ Sapienza Uni Rome|| views are mine (he/him) 🏳️🌈
Dr Lucy H. Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at MPI-GEA and Uni of Liverpool👩🏼💻 Interested in African archaeology, human-environment interactions and applying computational approaches to technological evolution https://sites.google.com/view/drlucytimbrell/home
Postcolonial Provenance Research @ppr-smb.bsky.social Official bluesky account of the postcolonial provenance research team at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin @kulturspk https://www.smb.museum/forschung/provenienzforschung/
CSIS @csis-liverpool.bsky.social The Centre for the Study of International Slavery is a research institute led by National Museums Liverpool's International Slavery Museum and the University of Liverpool.
https://linktr.ee/csisliverpool
Anthropology.net @anthropology.net https://anthropology.net https://sciences.social/@anthropology
#anthropology #archaeology #humanevolution #paleoanthropology #culture
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social Oxford medievalist, pilgrimage enthusiast and researcher.
Member of Oxford's Faculty of History and Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
Posting about saints, relics, shrines, & pilgrims!
Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social We are an #openaccess #encyclopedia of social and cultural #anthropology. Our entries are written by experts and peer reviewed. We aim to make anthropology accessible for everyone. Find us at www.anthroencyclopedia.com
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social Museum of Looted Antiquities is a virtual gallery that collects, displays and studies looted antiquities – and the trafficking networks behind them.
MuseumOfLoot.org
Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social Professor of History & Memory Studies @ Nottingham Trent University - https://jennywustenberg.com/
Reinwardt Academy, AHK Amsterdam University of the Arts @reinwardtacademy.bsky.social Dedicated to socially engaged museum and heritage practice through research and training of professionals (to be) at bachelor and master level. UNESCO Chair Museum Collections, Repatriation and Interculturality.
Reinwardtacademy.nl
Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies NTU @crhhms.bsky.social The Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Making the past meaningful in the present.
Catherine Wessinger @catherinewessinger.bsky.social Professor of the History of Religions, Loyola University New Orleans.
Co-editor, Nova Religio
Editor, Women in Religions series, NYU Press.
Editor, The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism.
Author, Theory of Women in Religions.
David Eddyshaw @tacitean.bsky.social
Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social Author, historian, curator, reseller - I sell wearable and other art, and I am fascinated by cultures and artifacts from around the world!
My shop is: California Dreaming Art Jewelry Etc:
https://www.rubylane.com/shop/california-dreamin-art-jewelry-etc
Live Qurious @livequrious.com Explore the wonders of the world with us, from the depths of history to the vastness of space. #CuriousMinds #StayCurious #LiveCurious
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. @akpf.bsky.social Wir vernetzen weltweit über 660 Expert*innen, die sich der Erforschung der Herkunft von Kulturgütern widmen. / We connect over 660 experts worldwide who are researching the provenance of cultural objects.
https://arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social News from the Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Liverpool. Monitored 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/
Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof @BaylorAnthro.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own
Journal of Religious History @j-religioushist.bsky.social International double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality scholarship on the history of all religions & their relationship with human experience.
Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University @princetonccsr.bsky.social Princeton University Center for Culture, Society & Religion is an academic initiative promoting scholarly research, teaching & public discussion about religion
MAEASaM @maeasamproject.bsky.social Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments project funded by Arcadia.
https://maeasam.org
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
Rep by Wylie Agency
Felix Meier zu Selhausen @felixmzs.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Economic History at Utrecht University, studying economic development, trade, religion, education, gender and demography.
French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the French Colonial Historical Society.
Elara Bertho @elarabertho.bsky.social Chercheuse au CNRS. Littératures africaines. Parle aussi de panafricanisme et socialisme.
J’écris: Senghor (Puf); Un couple panafricain. Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael en Guinée (Rot bo krik), Conakry, une utopie panafricaine (CNRS éd)
#HelloESR
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social Historian of European colonialism and modern Africa @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social & @Wadhamcollege.bsky.social. Working on Mau Mau, anticolonialism, infrastructure, and Maasai history.
Etanga Development Foundation @etangadevelopment.bsky.social 501(c)(3) in partnership with the OvaHimba community of Etanga, Namibia. Not charity. Not preservation. Partnership.
https://www.etangadevelopmentfoundation.org
Donate: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/walk-with-us-etanga-development-foundation
Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social Historian of religion\s at University of Fribourg (CH). linktr.ee/drMBrand PhD, first book: http://tinyurl.com/5n7kt5fs. Interested in Religion, Alternative Histories, History, Comparison, Theory - and sometimes in Manichaeans. #Schweiz
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social Mom of 4 in Oz
PI of the ISF Project Josephus Christianus
https://sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-christianus
Australian Catholic University
Melbourne
Late antiquity, books, Jews, Christians, humour, laughter etc.
🪔📚📜🦘
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
Arkansas Archeology @arkansasarcheology.bsky.social The Survey's mission is to study Arkansas's past and share it with the people of Arkansas.
Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social Now published by the @asianaffairs.bsky.social Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. Read us at asianreviewofbooks.com
Eyob Derillo @eyobderillo1.bsky.social Independent researcher, former curator Ethiopian collections and the first black curator at the British Library. All my view.
Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social @J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels.
#Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
Kerstin Pannhorst @pankerstin.bsky.social Historian of science, museums & collecting at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. Provenance research on natural history specimens and ethnographic objects from colonial contexts (Projects on Taiwan, China and Togo). Also: Kayaks, swimming & mountains
Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social Professional Association for Memory Scholars
Based in the Netherlands with members from more than 40 countries.
Join the MSA: http://goo.gl/GM5uBb
Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter?
https://ChasingAphrodite.com/
https://MuseumofLoot.org/
https://AchillesResearch.org/
Richard Hölzl @rhoelzl.bsky.social Historian interested in environments, entanglements, material culture of colonialism, incl. private opinions.
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social Supporting anthropology worldwide.
https://wennergren.org/
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social Historian of colonial violence and war, transimperial history c. 1880-1914. Forthcoming book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/colonial-way-of-war/0F3E02F14036481275F425952E91BD5C#fndtn-information
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Shadreck Chirikure @chirikure.bsky.social Archaeologist @school_of_arch @UniofOxford, @LinacreCollege
UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the UCL Institute of Archaeology one of the largest & most highly regarded centres for #Archaeology, #Heritage & #Museum studies.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
📸 (c) James Tye
Omedi Ochieng @omediochieng.bsky.social Critic, Student, Professor
Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social Global historian working on sovereignty, nationalism & Sudanese political parties. Formerly British University in Egypt and @camhistory.bsky.social. Now Wenzhou Kean University. Author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social.
Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social Professor of Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies. Excavator of archives. Syria, Romans, photographs, Dura-Europos. Newfoundlander.
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Dr Trish Biers @drtrishbiers.bsky.social Human Remains Specialist. Curation, conservation, repatriation, ethics, museums, relics, education. Stop the trade in human remains! 💀🪦⚰️ #thanatology #folklore #deathwork #deadtorites #tacos
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at WVU.
Views are my own and don't represent my employer.
Author of Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style https://fordhampress.com/aesthetic-impropriety-hb-9781531510626.html
Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche @africarivista.bsky.social Africa is an open access, peer-reviewed, and multi-disciplinary scientitic journal. // Printed in Rome, read everywhere. // Our languages are: Italian, English, and French
https://www.viella.it/catalogo/rivista/126
Saahlinda Naay (Haida Gwaii Museum) @haidagwaiimuseum.bsky.social Skidegate, Haida Gwaii
Suuda Gan unsid ad gina ‘waadluxan gan yahguudang Xaayda Gwaay.yaay iijii. To inspire understanding and respect for all that Haida Gwaii is.
www.haidagwaiimuseum.ca | www.haidagwaiimuseumgiftshop.ca
#haida #haidagwaii
African Association for the Study of Religions @aasreligions.bsky.social AASR is an an academic association that promotes the study of religions in Africa and the African diaspora.
https://www.a-asr.org/
Morgane Delaunay @morganedelaunay.bsky.social Historian - Portuguese decolonisation - decolonisation migrations -
Research Fellow École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques - Casa de Velázquez, Madrid- C @chrisfennell.bsky.social @chrisfennell.bsky.social
Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies at UChicago | Scholar | Writer | Literary Critic | Author: "Nostalgic Rebels" (2025); "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" (2023); "Un roman étranger" (2017); | Coeditor : "Abdelkébir Khatibi" (2020)
Kerri J. Malloy @kerrijmalloy.bsky.social Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at SJSU. (Yurok/Karuk)
Posts/opinions/sarcasm are my own.
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de EXC 2036 Beyond Slavery and Freedom Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en
HIEROTOPOI @hierotopoi.bsky.social Research project investigating the construction of sacred spaces in the ancient world. Based at the Austrian Archaeological Institute (@oeai.bsky.social / ÖAW). Led by @rsoneira.bsky.social Funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social
🔗 https://hierotopoi.hcommons.org/
Prof. Sian Sullivan @siansullivan.bsky.social Prof. of Environment & Culture, BSU | Research Associate Gobabeb Namib Research Institute | #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalAnthropology #ConservationPolitics
http://the-natural-capital-myth.net
http://www.etosha-kunene-histories.net
www.futurepasts.net
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social Forensic researcher and cybrarian using bibliometric analysis to develop accurate quantitative analysis on subjects of illicit trafficking, organised crime and looted/stolen art and antiquities at ARCA. Friends say I am 'fingerspitzengefühl' with data. :)
Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social Founder of Red Pop! News | Indigenous Journalist & Speaker | Disability & Media Advocate | Workshops on Indigenous storytelling, justice, and mental health
www.johnniejae.com
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet.
Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
Handle on all socials: folukeifejola
Website: FolukeAfrica.com
https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
Read us at theconversation.com/africa
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
@provenance-updates.bsky.social @provenance-updates.bsky.social News, resources, and discussions on provenance research.
Neuigkeiten, Ressourcen und Diskussionen zur Provenienzforschung.
Barnaby Phillips @barnabyphillips.bsky.social Journalist, author. 'The African Kingdom of Gold- Britain and the Asante Treasure', 'Loot- Britain and the Benin Bronzes' & 'Another Man's War'. BBC, Al Jaz; Athens,Jo'burg Lagos, Luanda & Maputo. Now back in my native N1 #COYG
Chika Okeke-Agulu @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social Art, politics, Africa, World
Museum of British Colonialism @museumofbc.bsky.social Transnational network confronting British colonialism UK, Kenya, and beyond. http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/ourblog http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/support
JEAS @jeasjournal.bsky.social Journal of Eastern African Studies. From the British Institute in Eastern Africa. RT ≠ endorsement. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjea20
Maxine Rubin @maxinerubin.com • Research fellow @giga-hamburg.de
• Co-Editor of @africaspectrum.bsky.social
• Research associate in the Department of Political Studies, University of Witwatersrand
Reposts ≠endorsement | Own views expressed
@asrjournal.bsky.social @asrjournal.bsky.social
100 Histories in 100 Worlds in 1 Object @100histories.bsky.social The Global South revisits the BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects. A dynamic decolonial grassroots project.
1 Object tells 100 Histories of 100 Worlds.
https://100histories100worlds.org/
Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social Scientific center for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange at the University of Freiburg. https://act.uni-freiburg.de/en
Konradin @konradinkunze.bsky.social Theater Performance Exhibitions Artistic Provenance Research Ancestral Remains Decolonisation / Flinn Works / Marejesho Research and Information Centre
Born at 333 ppm CO2
konradinkunze.de / flinn.works
Michigan State University Department of Anthropology @msuanthropology.bsky.social https://anthropology.msu.edu/links/
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
University of Rochester Press @urpress.bsky.social We publish books of high intellectual merit that reflect the strengths of the university and contribute to scholarly dialogue in musicology and music theory, African studies, European history, and the history of medicine.
PANS Namib Sand Sea Project @pans-river-namib.bsky.social Updates from research into the Palaeolithic archaeology and its palaeoenvironmental context in the northern Namib Sand sea... #PANS (funded by The Leverhulme Trust) and #RiVER fieldwork expedition (funded by RGS Thesiger Oman Fellowship)
Hatem Elliesie @helliesie.bsky.social Professor @Universität Leipzig and Research Partner @Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology + Chairperson of both the African Law Association and the Arabic and Islamic Law Association