Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social Editor, PhD student - Old Testament 🐉, contributing writer for Park Forum, nerd. Erincnewton.com. Typos are here because you get what you pay for on social media. 
Society of Biblical Literature @sblsite.bsky.social Founded in 1880 to foster biblical scholarship.
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Joseph Foltz @jofoltz.bsky.social New Testament Studies / Late Antique & Medieval Christian Art PhD Student @ Univ. of Denver
Maria Farinelli @maria-farinelli.bsky.social Specialista dell’Antichità tarda
Dottoressa in storia romana
Di Milano
Franco-italiana
International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social Bridging Disciplines • Supporting Scholarship • Connecting the Public at catacombsociety.org.
@rsutaustin.bsky.social @rsutaustin.bsky.social 
AGNTS Journal @agntsjournal.bsky.social Accessible German New Testament Scholarship (AGNTS).
Vol. 1 published Sept. 23, 2025 at agntsjournal.com
Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Check out our link tree: https://linktr.ee/emorywgss
Laura Nasrallah @lsnasrallah.bsky.social Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
Eric McDonnell @ericmcdonnell.bsky.social adjunct prof @ emory uni // digital initiatives manager @ society of biblical literature & sbl press // psalms & philology & poetry
Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @UICLAS professor of the ancient Mediterranean world. @UCLA, @UMich alum. Korean American, son of immigrants, striving anti-racist, not very good follower of Jesus
Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social Making Texas higher education great again. Classics/late antiquity/early Christianity. Sports ball fan.
Kate Cooper @kateantiquity.bsky.social People-watcher, ancient and modern. Historian of Late Antiquity. Professor of History, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
David J. DeVore @devoretext.bsky.social Ancient Mediterranean historian, Cal Poly Pomona. History, the human past (those 2 aren't the same), politics, some baseball. Views here not of my institution.
Matt Chalmers @mjchalmers.bsky.social Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
Lucy Grig @lucygrig.bsky.social Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
Taylor Petrey @taylorpetrey.bsky.social Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College.
Early Christianity, Gender Studies, Mormonism
Diane Shane Fruchtman @dianeshanef.bsky.social Rutgers Religion Prof; Medievalist historian of Christianity. Martyrdom Scholar. Advocate for inclusive pedagogy, public education, and peace. New Yorker turned Hoosier. Mom of 3. (She/her or they)
Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social Patristics, texts & transmissions, ancient history.
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog
Mark DelCogliano @markdelcogliano.bsky.social Professor & Chair, Dept. of Theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN | Early & Late Antique Christianity, Theological Debates & Developments, Scriptural Exegesis | Translator of ancient texts | Early riser | Slow reader | Classical guitarist
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages at the University of Warsaw, chair of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations. Interested in relics, clerics, saints, demons, thieves, and divination. 
A. v. Stockhausen @vonstockhausen.org Director of “Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike” at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and editor of “Patristic Text Archive” (PTA).
Ancient Christianity, Patristics, Digital Classics.
Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social Disabled former Prof. Long Covid, ME/CFS. He/him.
Songs written: https://tinyurl.com/5n6zmhm5
“Until we are sick, we understand not.” (Keats)
“By reason of my infirmities, I am, . . . like a plant, always held to the same place." (St. Basil)- A Averil Cameron @averilcam.bsky.social Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com Data Architect/Data Wrangler. Doer of ML/MT and AI thingies. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him.
web: https://rickbrannan.com
Francesco Rotiroti @rotiroti.bsky.social Legal Scholar, Historian, Classicist – Legal Theory & History, Antiquity & Early Middle Ages, Classics, Early Christianity, Video Games – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Rotiroti
Ed Creedy @edcreedy.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR Fellow in Theology at Durham.
PhD in Classics from KCL. Interested in early Christianity, theatre and performance in the Greco-Roman world.
Shawn J Wilhite @sjwilhite.bsky.social Some Patristics, some New Testament, some Early Christianity · PhD Durham University · Associate Professor at California Baptist University
#VeryAsian Dr. Sid Sudiacal (he/him/siya) 🇵🇭🇨🇦 @drsids.bsky.social Filipino Canadian scholar interested in the intersection of psychology, history, and theology.
Views are my own.
Blake Hartung @bahartung.bsky.social Teaching Professor, Arizona State University
When I have time, I research and write on late antiquity, early Christianity, Syriac literature, and the Mandaeans
My book: https://brill.com/display/title/68207?language=en
Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
Madalina Toca @madalinatoca.bsky.social Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
BoozyBibleScholar @boozybiblescholar.bsky.social Angela Parker, PhD, Womanist New Testament Scholar, teacher, preacher, trying to make a difference in her corner of the world. I am the author of If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I? Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority.
Mitzi Smith @womanistprof67.bsky.social Flora’s Daughter, Author, Professor of Religion (NT), Womanist, Podcaster, Traveler, Stroke Survivor
@revdramy.bsky.social @revdramy.bsky.social Pastor, theologian, mother, knitter, weaver, gardener
UTK Religious Studies @utkreligion.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.
Brandon Grafius @bgrafius.bsky.social Bible and horror scholar, associate professor and dean. Recent book: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506481623/Lurking-Under-the-Surface. Words at Salon, Sojourners, and Tor.com.
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht @jkrinder.bsky.social Systematic Theologian sojourning in Texas.
Pics of dogs and foster dogs.
Alex Istok @alexistok.bsky.social Classics PhD. Teaching at Samford University. Writing about early Christian apologies and Roman legal spaces (real + imagined).
Joseph (Joe) K. Gordon @josephkgordon.bsky.social Prof of Theology, certified Tennessee Naturalist, Southern Appalachian Naturalist, Master Herpetologist, and Venomous Snake Training (Lvls 1 & 2). Scholarship and snakes. Views mine.
josephkgordon.hcommons.org
Dr. Joshua Turpin @turpin.bsky.social PhD Hebrew Bible, newly minted
Scholar of race, class and gender
Anarchist
Any pronouns
Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social Theologian writing a book on the political theology of the New Apostolic Reformation. Websites: https://stephenwaldron.substack.com/
theologyandsociety.com
Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar, Organizational Entrepreneur. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
Jon Coutts @joncoutts.bsky.social settler theologian finishing a book on Bonhoeffer, and starting one against AI. Lifelong fan of #LFC and #Canucks. he/him
🎬 http://letterboxd.com/joncoutts
✍️ http://thissideofsunday.blogspot.com
Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social PhD, scholar of Hebrew Bible and ancient eastern Mediterranean, feminist, settler-Canadian. http://christine-mitchell.ca
Personal site.
Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social Winnipeg Enthusiast. Noted idiot. In the war on cars.
linktr.ee/rkturnbull
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social American Studies PhDStudent: squeamishly fascinated by religion, capitalism, energy/environment, critical regionalism.
Mom of 2 young adults, 2 cats, about 102 plants.
God-stalker. Grace-freak. Rebel. Union member.
Cats, coffee, chocolate, cheese, chile
Phil Thomas @philthomas.bsky.social Father, Husband, Theologian, Gardener, Reader, Author ("Hope for A Tree" and "In A Vision of the Night") Low-level Theological Educator
Esther Brownsmith, PhD @brownsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
Jason Pudlo @jasonpudlo.bsky.social Religion, environment, and disaster researcher. Public administration professor. Mountains, then prairie, now pirate coast.
(My posts most certainly do not represent the views of my employer)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4123-8413
Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology.
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights
🍉🌈🏜️🚫🧊
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Bob Cornwall @drbobcornwall.bsky.social Disciples of Christ minister-at-large, ecumenist, author, and historical theologian. I blog at https://www.bobcornwall.com/
Jimmy Parks @jimmyparks.bsky.social I prefer to be in the mountains, but usually I’m behind a computer. Senior Data Curator @Logos. I’m interested in post-classical Greek and the linguistic tools of the digital humanities. 
Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social I care about ideas doing work in the world
Professional humanist and book editing person
Seeking to enter by the narrow gate.
Religion | History | Indigeneity | Music | Sport
MN born NC by choice
Always #GDTBATH | #DurhamNC #BullCity
Laura Duhan-Kaplan @onsophiastreet.bsky.social Rabbi Professor Dean. Recovering philosopher. Reluctant singer. Cat & crow fan. Recent Book: Biblical Animals http://amzn.to/3j1ftQD. Blog: www.sophiastreet.com
Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him.
“Read some fucking apocrypha.”
https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
Nichole M. Flores @nicholemflores.bsky.social Associate professor of religious studies at UVA. Author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (Georgetown 2021). Writing a book on Advent & Christian political imagination. Esposa de @jamesdarynhenry, mamá of 2.
Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. I'm probably in my camper.
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Chris Jones @profchrismjones.bsky.social Topekan. Religion professor. Teacher. I study Hebrew Bible, pedagogy, and trauma.
Kori Pacyniak (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ @kpacyniak.bsky.social PhD in queer & trans studies in religion @UCRiverside | Lecturer in LGBTQ studies @SDSU | lived religion, ethics, gender, sexuality, religion, pop culture, practical theology | sometimes tall ships and nerdy things | https://www.transgendercatholics.com
AAR/SBL Women's Caucus @aarwomenscaucus.bsky.social The Women’s Caucus is dedicated to representing the concerns of women in the AAR/SBL. We aim to provide networking possibilities among women and to foster a culture of collaboration and mentoring among women in Religious Studies and sister programs.
Jonathan Grieser @djgrieser.bsky.social “Crypto-liberal Laudian.”
Episcopal priest, cat feeder, ballroom dancer. Spent 15 years toiling in the fields of academe: teaching religious studies and researching early modern religious history.
Brandon Massey @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social PhD NT and Early Christianity | Independent Scholar | Historical Jesus | History of Scholarship | Synoptic Gospels | https://hcommons.org/members/brandonmassey/
Erin Galgay Walsh @eringwalsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
Sam Freney @freney.org Nerd. Also: translation consultant at BSA, NT PhD, frisbee player, musician, and that coffee guy. Interested in many languages.
Andrew Krinks @andrewkrinks.bsky.social Educator, writer & movement builder at intersection of religion, race, carcerality & abolition. Book: White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism & the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization (NYU Press 2024). Nashville, TN. linktr.ee/andrewkrinks
Ryan Halloran, Ph.D. @halloranphd.bsky.social He/Him | Religion Ph.D. from @temple.edu | Researches Catholicism, Masculinity, & Sports in 20th c. U.S. | Philly Sports fanatic | History geek
Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools.
https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, US. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food.
Charles Meeks @charlesmeeks.com Associate Professor and Director of Anglican Formation and Studies at the Vancouver School of Theology
PhD in theology from St Mike’s, Toronto. History of exegesis, ecclesiology, sacraments, etc. Anglican priest.
charlesmeeks.com
Steven M. Vose @thejainguy.bsky.social Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Chair of Jain Studies, Dept of History, CU Denver. Book: Reimagining #Jainism in Islamic #India (forth., Routledge). Religion, Politics, Boston sports. He/Him. Anti-fascist. Mainer.
collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social theological educator posting about god, bible, climate, transit | he/him | houston
www.fuller.edu/faculty/collin-cornell/
Rebecca Janzen @rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Deutsches Bergbau Museum (2025-2027). Views my own.
Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social Displaced Southerner. Historian of American religion, gender, women’s ordination, & Methodism. Ordained UMC Deacon. BU Theology PhD. Perkins/SMU Faculty. UAB Blazer alum. ❤️: Cuppas, BBQ, porchsits, southern things, cats.
Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social US Religious Historian with focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:📚 How Our Days Became Numbered
🔗 seokweonjeon.com
Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social Historian of religion and politics in the US specializing in Gilded Age and Progressive Era, reform movements, and religious debates about American democracy.
Views are my own, not my employer’s. Likes and reposts are not endorsements.
stschorey @stschorey.bsky.social writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
Chris Miller @cmillerphd.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow with the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto
Studying death, dying, and nonreligion
https://chrismiller.ca/
becky hammon’s crucifix @real-point-god.bsky.social glory to (the point) god for the #wnba. spreading the good news about women’s basketball + eating the rich.
Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
She/her.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social Historian of transnational politics & religion between the US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, @histcatmex.bsky.social. Social Media Officer, @iehs.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie.
https://nathanellstrand.com/
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Alexiana Fry @alexianafry.bsky.social HB/OT PhD; all things Bible, trauma, feminism, and migration.
David Shervington @dshervington.bsky.social Publishing Director at Hymns Ancient & Modern (including SCM Press and Canterbury Press); Licenced Lay Minister; cricket badger. Post on a heady and unhinged mix of topics.
Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social Christian Ethics & Women Gender Sexuality Prof-Sartorial Scholar-Pop Culture Enthusiast-Couch Potato Commentator-Funny girl, Soca Lover, Cerebral Carnivalist 🇯🇲
FAMU 🐍 Emory 🦅
*Don’t need no holleration in my DMs*
Thorn Mooney @thornthewitch.bsky.social Religious Studies PhD candidate: paranormal, secularism, magic, spiritualism, ethnography. Lit MA. Publishing production day job. Witch author, Gard priestess, guitarist, fountain pen person, Swiftie, probably a werewolf.
https://linktr.ee/thornthewitch
Jessica Tinklenberg @drtink.bsky.social Executive Director, Pima Community College Teaching and Learning Center. Former Director, University of the Pacific CTL and Claremont Colleges CTL. Mama and Wife and Dog Wrangler.