Rikki Liu @rikkiwliu.bsky.social UT Austin Religious Studies
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social Researching and writing about American Christianity, gender, media, and politics.
Postdoc at Wesleyan University.
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society @elonreligion.bsky.social The Elon Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society is the research and scholarship arm of Elon University’s multifaith initiative, highlighting and promoting the interdisciplinary study of religion, culture, and society.
Joseph Stuart @jstuart.bsky.social History Professor | Race, Religion, and Masculinity in the Black Freedom Struggle
KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at UW-Madison | Religious Studies | Researching language, identity, & lived Islam in East Africa
May all beings find peace.
Thomas Tweed @tomtweed.bsky.social Historian of religion. Author of 9 books, including Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford); and Religion in the Lands That Became America (Yale). https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300221480/religion-in-the-lands-that-became-ame
John Schmalzbauer @ozarkswatcher.bsky.social Watching religion & culture from the Ozarks 
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
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social The SSSR is an interdisciplinary academic association that promotes & communicates social scientific research about religious institutions and experiences. Founded in 1949. sssreligion.org Flagship publication: JSSR @jssreligion.bsky.social
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics @ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social Research and teaching center at Washington University in St. Louis focused on the many intersections of religion and U.S. politics. https://rap.wustl.edu/
Charlie McCrary @mccraryc.bsky.social I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. I work at Eckerd College.
https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/
Matt Hedstrom @matthedstrom.bsky.social Historian of US religion, politics, culture, SBNR at UVA. Writing a book about religion, the UN, and “one world” in Cold War America. Author of The Rise of Liberal Religion. Will also post about baseball and tennis whether you like it or not.
@rmwheeler.bsky.social @rmwheeler.bsky.social 
Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social Historian @ UCBerkeley | Author: Enlisting Faith http://tinyurl.com/yyh2p4tq | current project: religious hospitals & conscience rights | sometimes quilts, sometimes climbs | posts my own | she/her
Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
Rachel B. Gross @rachelbgross.bsky.social Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc. Prof. at SF State | Author: Beyond the Synagogue | Now: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures | https://linktr.ee/rachelbgross
Laurie Maffly-Kipp @maffkipp.bsky.social Here to talk about all the officially prohibited things: religion, politics, race.
Kate Carte @kecarte.bsky.social Early Americanist, mom, runner, fiction buff, yarn arts for meditation, but not with much skill.
Paul Harvey @pharvey61.bsky.social History, religion, books, basketball, coffee, yerba mate, wine, music, cats, academia, ongoing bonfire of the humanities. https://paulharvey.org
Marie Griffith @mariegriffith.bsky.social US religious history, gender & sexuality studies, religion & politics. Professor at WashU in St. Louis. Writing a book on clergy sexual abuse across American Christianity. https://rap.wustl.edu/people/r-marie-griffith/ 
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.
Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social so-called lady scholar & scholar of ladies | associate professor of history @colgate.edu | usually thinking about Catholic girlhoods, special collections, upstate utopias, and convent road trips 🎀 📚 👩🏻💻 🚗 | she/her
Heather D Curtis @heatherdcurtis.bsky.social Historian of American Religion. Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities @ Tufts. 
Chip Callahan @chipcallahan.bsky.social Religious Studies prof. Folklorist.
Author, Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust. Co-Editor, The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Religion and Popular Culture.
Currently: religious history of oceanic resource extraction (whaling)
Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social Historian of religion & race, archives, media/tech/comm, politics of education. History Prof & Dir. of Religious Studies @ University of Minnesota. Au: Christian Slavery (2018) and Archival Irruptions (2025). www.katharinegerbner.com
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social Birdwatching Historian of Birdwatching
Associate Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
Tisa Wenger @tisawenger.bsky.social Historian of American religion, religious freedom, US Empire. New book in 2026: Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion. Gardener, permaculturalist, & fermentation nerd.
Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM
@OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Angela Tarango @atarango1.bsky.social Academic, knitter, cross stitcher, owned by cats
Brook Wilensky-Lanford @brookwl.bsky.social Author of A GOD-SHAPED NATION and PARADISE LUST, religion writing teacher and editor, eternal student, Chapel Hill cat lady. www.brookwilensky-lanford.com
Katharine Mershon @profdognerd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion in NC | Author of Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in the US: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
hurstonian @ahmadgreene.com 🏫 professor, writer, lover
✨views are my own.
Emily Ogden @emily-ogden.bsky.social Essayist, critic, and 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. New book on Edgar Allan Poe, DARKNESS BECOMES BRIGHT, out from Viking Books on Sept. 29.
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)
Jeffrey Wheatley @wheatleyjt.bsky.social Teach & research religion in US history & culture. Secular governance, conflict, fanaticism. Also cephalopods. NBA and Suns fan. #religiousstudies #history #iowastate
www.jeffreywheatley.com
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
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Daniel Vaca @danielvaca.bsky.social assoc. prof. @ Brown University | author of *Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America* (Harvard, 2019) | writing about religion + inequity + taxes + visions of the common good | danielvaca.com
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro