C. Malcolm Keating @cmalcolmkeating.bsky.social Editor, Sanskrit translator, and philosopher of language (South Asian and analytic).
Formerly associate professor, Smith College 🇺🇸 & Yale-NUS College 🇸🇬; currently managing editor, Aristotelian Society 🇬🇧
malcolmkeating.com
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Chuck Jones @chuckjones.bsky.social Father, Husband, Librarian, Open access and free-to-read scholarship advocate, always online. https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
Stacey L. Boulter @staceyboulter.bsky.social Graduate Student | Department of Religious Studies | McMaster University | Indian Buddhism | Monastic Law | Sanskrit Literature
JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social The official account of the JJRS and NIRC. Follow for publications and event announcements.
https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.
Australian Society for Asian Humanities (ASAH) @asah-sydney.bsky.social Promoting Asian Studies in Australia since 1956
The Australian Society for Asian Humanities promotes the knowledge of Asia in Australia and provide a venue for scholars working in Asian humanities to present their work to their peers and others interested
Dominik A. Haas @dominikhaas.bsky.social #Sanskrit, #Religion, #Mantra. Fascinated by the incomprehensible. Believes in the power of philology. Postdoctoral researcher @oeaw.bsky.social, collaborator @mantrams.bsky.social
Didier Natalizi Baldi @didiernb.bsky.social
Linhe Li 李林壑 @linhe-li.bsky.social PhD student at UW Asian L&L, medieval Chinese literature, Sui dynasty, court culture, poetry and poetics...
🪶 🪄
https://asian.washington.edu/people/linhe-li
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linhe-li-4b90b3371/
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
Marjorie Burge @margiburge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Colorado Boulder; early Korea/early Japan.
百濟萬歳
Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social Anthropologist Tibetologist Lawyer.
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Tsang Wing Ma @bentsangwingma.bsky.social Historian of early China
@akrause.bsky.social @akrause.bsky.social
S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social XV s. France #medievalist, women's libraries. #editrice, #feminist, #reader, #foodie she/her/hers http://mftranscriptions.wordpress.com https://sckaplan.com
Curt Hansman @achinatiger.bsky.social art historian, Sinologist, teaches at DePaul, distance runner, voracious omnivorous reader, potter
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social 台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
Benjamin Schmidt @benjaminschmidt.bsky.social interested in: Japanese medieval and early modern history; regional history; paleography and local documents
日本の中近世史、地域史、古文書学、地方文書
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social ANU Press publishes scholarship across the disciplinary spectrum, with particular strengths in Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies and Knowledge, Asia and Pacific Studies, International Relations and Law.
Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
Dr. Kurtis Hanlon @kurtishanlon.bsky.social An assistant professor in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Palacký University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Former lecturer at Yale, UBC. Designated departmental baker (he/him)
Giorgio Strafella @gstrafella.bsky.social Associate Professor and dog dad at the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc
https://gstrafella.wordpress.com/
@profjonathanyoung.bsky.social @profjonathanyoung.bsky.social
Victor Louzon @vlouzon.bsky.social
Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social Historian at Knox College specializing in transnational histories of modern Japan and East Asia, digital humanities, and virtual heritage.
Kelsey Granger @kelseygranger.bsky.social Historian of China and the Silk Roads, esp. animal history, manuscripts, labour, and pet-keeping
Munby Fellow @ University of Cambridge | Co-founder of Chinese Animal Studies Network | Book Review Editor @ Animal History
Doro|河文 @faeydoro.bsky.social She/them|
Nerd for a variety of things, such (East Asian) History, K-&J-pop, and Ships (the water kind)
Currently Studying my BAs in Sinology and History at the University of Vienna
Student Union Person
NOT AMERICAN
DE|EN|一点中文
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Jana Mynářová @pudukhepa.bsky.social Assyriologist and Egyptologist, devoted Wagnerian. Professor at Charles University, Prague.
De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Asian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Michelle @doctorlaoshi.bsky.social (she/her) Chinese professor at UNCo, mom of a wild thing, aspiring yogi. Currently translating 女仙外史
Matthew Saunders @digitalsemitist.bsky.social PhD student in Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University studying comparative Semitics, Aramaic studies, Ugaritic studies, digital humanities.
National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social The National Humanities Alliance is a coalition of organizations that advocates for the value of the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill.
Learn more at www.nhalliance.org.
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
International Association for Assyriology @iaassyriology.bsky.social The IAA was founded in 2003 to promote and represent Cuneiform Studies, ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology on an international basis.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Marshall Cunningham @marshallcunningham.bsky.social Assistant Instructional Professor in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East at UChicago; Section Editor at Religion Compass: ANE; he/him/his; Let’s ride bikes; Go Cubbies!
Dr. Shana Zaia @shanazaia.bsky.social Assyriologist at VU Amsterdam | Formerly Uni Vienna and CSTT Helsinki | Yale PhD | Ask me about Assyria | shanazaia.com
Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisperer, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia (ASTRA) @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social A research group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) dedicated to studying the astral sciences in trans-regional Asia.
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/departments/max-planck-research-group-astra
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
FID4SA @fid4sa.bsky.social Fachinformationsdienst Südasien der @ub-heidelberg.bsky.social und @unihd-sai.bsky.social | FID4SA = Digitale Ressourcen + @HASP-HD.bsky.social + Forschungsliteratur | Specialized Information Service South Asia
https://www.fid4sa.de
Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works about China and Korea.
Society for the Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies @ssycds.bsky.social International, scholarly, non-political, and nonprofit professional association of all persons interested in the study of Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol history. https://songyuan.org
Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social Historian of modern China - childhood, mobilisation, material culture and gender. Research Associate at SOAS @soashistory.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
Morgane Pique @mpique.bsky.social PhD student / Doctorante en Assyriologie, université de Lille (UMR 9028-HARTIS)
> Old Babylonian period and its merchants, institutions and society
> Page Pro : https://pro.univ-lille.fr/morgane-pique
ISTB University of Vienna, Austria @istb-univienna.bsky.social The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde), University of Vienna.
Stephen 田笠 Field @fieldwork.bsky.social Scholar of Early China; farmer by birth, poet at heart: “Fields, ten acres, on the slope of Sage Hill. Free and easy, sufficient to myself.”
Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰
Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social Sinologist working on medieval (200–1000) China・Reception of the European Middle Ages in China・Posts a selection of classical Chinese literature each day・中古・中世紀
Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese History @MIT
Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social At some point I'll start posting useful stuff here. Maybe.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/- D Drew Gibson @drewgibson.bsky.social Independent Scholar: Chinese Dynastic Histories, Zizhi Tongjian, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social @x1ngwu on X. I collect, translate and write about ancient Chinese folklore, mythology, and history. Love books and cats.
Mythology | Yaoguai(妖怪) | Ghost(鬼) | Art | Myth | Fantasy | History
Evan Nicoll-Johnson @evnj.bsky.social Narrative, manuscript culture, environment & literature in early medieval China (3rd-8th centuries, or something)
Graham Sanders (he/him) @gmsprof.bsky.social Professor of classical Chinese literature at the University of Toronto, among other pursuits.
若復不為無益之事則安能悅有涯之生?“Without trivial pursuits, how can we enjoy a life that must end?”
Jann Ronis @jannr.bsky.social Buddhist Digital Resource Center (bdrc.io), Tibetan Studies, Digital Humanities, literature, swimming, coffee, travel, San Francisco... Joined in November '24
Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social Librarian for pre-modern Chinese Books @KULeuven. Ph.D. in Chinese studies. Gongyang Confucianism, revenge (復讎), Kang Youwei, and video games. First gen, they/them.
Ya Zuo 左娅 @zuoya.bsky.social Historian, middle and late imperial China, cultural history, history of emotions, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara
Yuxuan Tay 鄭宇軒 @yuxuantay.bsky.social PhD student in Buddhist Studies @ UCLA | history of state-religions r/s in medieval China (c.200-1200) | “see this island, every grain of sand” 🇸🇬
Yiyi Luo @yiyi2020.bsky.social Assistant professor of classical Chinese literature at UMass Amherst.
Scholar of classical Chinese literature, poetics, court culture, history, and religions.
https://www.umass.edu/east-asia/about/directory/yiyi-luo
Jin Xu @jin-xu.bsky.social https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/jin-xu
Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh @asianstudiesed.bsky.social Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/asian-studies
Jim Millward @jimmillward.bsky.social Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.
Jean Tsui @jeantsui.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at CUNY. Studies affect, emotion, and late imperial Chinese intellectual history.
Author of Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China (SUNY, 2024)
Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social Head of Chinese Section, under Research Collections Directorate at Cambridge University Library. Senior member of Robinson College. Views my own.
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
http://cornellpress.cornell.edu
Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026)
Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
Chinese Animal Studies Network @casntweets.bsky.social CASN is an academic network uniting scholars working across the chronological and geographic breadth of China who are interested in animal studies.
https://chineseanimalstudiesnetwork.com/
Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social Historian. With Michelle Kuo, a newsletter on #Taiwan: http://ampleroad.substack.com
Jeffrey Kotyk @jeffreykotyk.bsky.social Historian, translator, writer. Nam studere servire Deo est. 子曰:「學而時習之,不亦說乎?」
YC Wang @yuanchongwang.bsky.social 1. A native Shandongese from Shandong Peninsula, China
2. Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Delaware
3. Editor-in-Chief, The Chinese Historical Review (since July 2024)
The Journal of Japanese Studies @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social
Critical Asian Studies @criticasianstds.bsky.social Critical Asian Studies publishes scholarly articles that challenge accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.
China Research in the Cloud 云里阅天下(中国研究) @yunliyuetianxia.bsky.social Started in 2020, this has become a highly-respected multimedia platform for sharing the best & newest scholarship on China, having publicized 200 issues about academic talks, roundtables, articles, and new book announcements http://t.cn/A6mLJNrd
Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Arizona, director of UA Center for East Asian Studies
Author of Bandits in Print, available as a free download from Cornell University Press
Personal account; views are my own
Thomas Pellard @thomaspellard.bsky.social CNRS Research scientist 🇫🇷 historical-comparative linguistics, archaeolinguistics, phylolinguistics, geolinguistics, endangered languages, languages of Japan
Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JASPA (formerly JAOS) editor. Father of 2. From NE Ohio.
https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec
Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Louise M. Pryke @louloveshistory.bsky.social Writer and historian. Author of Scorpion, Ishtar, Gilgamesh, Turtle, and Wind.
Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Ryan Richard Overbey @overbey.bsky.social Buddhology, &c.
antonio musto @amusto.bsky.social phd @ nyu
social and intellectual history (mainly Sufism)
i like to read old stuff
Piotr Michalowski @babbabardah.bsky.social
Vincent S Leung @vincent76.bsky.social Early China historian. Hong Kong is home.
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social Associate Professor in Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies in NELC at UCLA. Sumerian, religion & magic, demons, exorcism, and monsters. Also posts about walking in LA and my idiot cats.
Dr Matthew L Keegan @drkeegan.bsky.social Professor of Arabic Lit, reader of riddles, lecturer of the ostensibly old and obscure. Formerly in the bad place: Lit_as_Adab https://barnard.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan (Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.)
Jon Hoover @jhoover04.bsky.social Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social Translator of Gilgamesh and Enheduana