Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own. 
Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @bostonreview.bsky.social
and elsewhere. PhD candidate @gvagrad.bsky.social.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Ulrich Schmiedel @ulrich-schmiedel.bsky.social Prof of Global Christianities at Lund • Researches religious diversity, religion and migration, religion and the far right, political theology, public theology, and social ethics • Also a trekkie • (And here as a private person.)
ulrichschmiedel.com
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Joseph Hermiz @profjhermiz.bsky.social PhD @NELC_UChicago. Researching the international Assyrian community, ~1913-1933; teaching the history of Modern Middle East
Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social Writer/doodler
Harvard Divinity School @harvarddivinity.bsky.social Make a World of Difference #WeAreHarvardDivinity
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/
Heine Paus @heinepaus.bsky.social IHL, IHRL ++. Ex-broadcast journalist (NRK).
He/him. 🇳🇴+🇪🇺 citizen.
Josh Donovan @jmaydonovan.bsky.social Middle East historian (modern Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and its diasporas) | history teacher | one of three Joshes 👬🐶🏳️🌈
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
WGVU Public Media @wgvupublicmedia.bsky.social Public Media including PBS, NPR, and CreateTV. For more information visit www.wgvu.org
Jülide Etem @julideetem.bsky.social Author of Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations | Assistant Professor of Media Studies & Director of Film Studies Concentration at the University of Virginia
Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social Researcher @University of Vienna, PhD @VU Amsterdam
Syriac manuscripts, materiality, digital humanities
Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer’s. Reposts do not indicate agreement.
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social Multiculti mash-ups from the far edge of the Western world (Berkeley, CA): religion, food, language, education, photography, music, basic human decency.
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Andrew Walker-Cornetta @awalkercornetta.bsky.social American Religion | Disability | Catholic Studies | Health Humanities
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Olmo Gölz @olmo-goelz.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Islamic Studies and Iranian Studies | University of Freiburg
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
Ivan Plis @ivanplis.bsky.social Not into “fun facts.” Human editor and church guy in DC. Pronounce me: https://ipa-reader.com/?text=i%CB%88v%C9%91%CB%90n%20pl%C9%AAs
ivanplis.com
Heleen Murre-van den Berg @hlmvdberg.bsky.social Professor of Global Christianity, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University - Books - Middle East - Religion - Syriac/Assyrian Christians - Migration
Katherine Kelaidis @katiekelaidis.bsky.social Writer, traveler, dog-mom
Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University @hrc-asu.bsky.social The Hispanic Research Center (HRC) is an interdisciplinary research unit founded in 1985 and administratively housed within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU. The HRC conducts basic and applied research on a broad range of topics.
The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social Award-winning magazine (and podcast) about religion, society, and media published by NYU's Center for Religion & Media. https://therevealer.org/
SueJeanne Koh (she/her) @sjkoh.bsky.social Assistant Director of Graduate Futures and Research Engagement at UC Irvine's Humanities Center; scholar and teacher of Christian theology and ethics.
Jeremy Menchik @menchik.bsky.social Professor of IR & Political Science. Director of CURA https://www.bu.edu/cura/. Organizer of www.bit.ly/jewishleft. Scholar of religion, comparative politics, liberalism, pumpkin whoopie pies. https://jeremymenchik.com/
Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
Elizabethshakmanhurd.com
Thomas Lay @thomas-lay.bsky.social Editor (Fordham). All views my own.
rvizcaino.bsky.social @rvizcaino.bsky.social Associate Professor of Latin American and Decolonial Thought. My work examines the intersections between race, religion, politics, and secularization.
Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social Historian and Religious Studies scholar.
Postdoctoral fellow at the @oeai.bsky.social
Atheism, heterodoxy, and religious deviance in ancient times.
#religiones #religion
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
@khayrallahcenter.bsky.social @khayrallahcenter.bsky.social 
Nadine Sika @nadinesika.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics at the American University in Cairo (AUC)
juliet nebolon @julietneb.bsky.social teacher &
author of settler militarism (duke 2024):
https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-nebolon-juliet-settler-militarism-world-war-ii-in-hawaii-and-the-making-of-us-empire?_pos=2&_sid=0602d2404&_ss=r
APSA MENA Politics Section @apsamena.bsky.social Official account of the APSA Middle East & North Africa Politics Organized Section. apsanet.org/section49
The Center for the Study of Evangelicalism @cse-uccs.bsky.social CSE @ UCCS
Research center for the academic study of evangelicalism.
Free public programs featuring authors & scholars.
📍Colorado Springs
Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social Writing, Rhetoric, Multimodality. History of composition & standardizing writing; feedback & assessment; and multimodal pedagogies. Digital rhetoric & disinformation.
Reviews Coeditor @kairostp.bsky.social
Youssef Belal @youssefbelal.bsky.social @UN diplomat and negotiator. Confict resolution. Exophonic Author. Taught @Columbia & @UC. Berkeley New book “The Life of Sharia” with @ucpress.bsky.social published in May 2025. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-life-of-sharia/paper#about-author
@diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social A review of contemporary criticism
https://www.diacriticsjournal.com/
Council for Global Anthropological Linguistics @theglocal.bsky.social This is the official profile of The GLOCAL,The global council for Anthropological Linguistics
Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social Symbols, myths, anthropology, art, linguistics, history. This is a notebook of TILs: things I wish I could learn more about!
he/him
Support Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Harvard Divinity School Library @hdslibrary.bsky.social No, we're not just bibles.
Aristomenis Papadimitriou @menios.bsky.social Historian & Director of Archives, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | Scholar of Religion in Modernity, Fordham University
Maria Dikcis, PhD @mariadikcis.bsky.social Writing in Public Books, The American Poetry Review, ASAP/Journal, Chicago Review, &c.
PhD, Northwestern | Postdocs, Harvard & UChicago
literature, technology, culture
mariadikcis.com
Josefrayn Sánchez-Perry @icxicoatl.bsky.social scholar of mesoamerica, religious studies, and medical humanities. assistant professor @ loyola chicago. Incense and Performance (University of Arizona Press 2026).
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى @salmamousa.bsky.social Political science prof at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
Hadi Kahalzadeh @kahal.bsky.social Research Fellow @Brandeis University| PhD in Social Policy
Taha Kaleem @tahakaleem.bsky.social PhD Student in Anthropology @Brandeis! Oil, Sexuality, Masculinity in the Arabian Gulf and MENA
Naghmeh Sohrabi @naghmehs.bsky.social Historian of modern Middle East and TV enthusiast.
I sometimes write here: http://truethings.naghmehs.com
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Middle Eastern Studies Forum at Stanford @middleeast.stanford.edu 
Shamiran Mako @smako.bsky.social Associate professor, comparative politics and IR @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
www.shamiranmako.com
Hamzeh Hadad @hamzehhadad.bsky.social Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. All views are my own.
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/
Fred Appel @freditorpup.bsky.social book publisher, editor at Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/resources/prospective-authors#meet-our-editors
Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own
Helen Jin Kim @helenjinkim.bsky.social Associate professor of American religious history at Emory | Author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (OUP 2022) | Book interview: https://youtu.be/uDcAF3oJtTg?si=LiVT_sRwf74xOU-W
Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • "How Commerce Became Legal" (Stanford UP, 2025) • omarcheta.com
Ely Orrego Torres @elyorrego.bsky.social PhDing Political Science Northwestern/ Sciences Po-Paris. IR/Pol Theory. Studying Religion & Politics, Pol Theologies, secularism, religious freedom in the Americas. Foodie @saborkairos🍴| @U2 fan
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
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🏃♂️✅
@danilynrutherford.bsky.social @danilynrutherford.bsky.social Anthropologist, author, supporter of other scholars’ work. Professor turned funder. Books on nationalism, sovereignty, and colonial state building in West Papua and disability and mystery in the US. Interested in everything.
Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social Social Scientist @ UMass Boston
Editor @ Sociology of Religion
Studies (Non)Religion & Spirituality | Climate | Public Life
https://www.evan-stewart.com
@socimages.bsky.social
Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com The leading peer-reviewed journal for the analysis of race, #racism, ethnicity and #migration worldwide.
https://www.tandfonline.com/ERS
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed @a-ezz-mohamed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science @iast.fr, ex-fellow @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social, PhD @columbiauniversity.bsky.social| MENA politics, religion and politics, distributive politics, autocracies, mixed methods
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker Web App): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
@amyfallas.bsky.social @amyfallas.bsky.social 
Laura Nasrallah @lsnasrallah.bsky.social Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
Richard Newton @seedpods.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. Germinating Conversations about Religion, Culture, and Teaching.
UTK Religious Studies @utkreligion.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.
Matthew J. Smith @smithmj303.bsky.social I study and teach on race religion sexuality ecology & science in the U.S. empire.
On the territory of the Anishinaabeg, Three Fires Confederacy.
Ralph H. Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
Irene Oh @ireneoh.bsky.social Religion Professor @GWU
What am I *not* interested in? is the better question...
Author: What is Religious Ethics? | The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights & Comparative Ethics
Editor: Journal of Religious Ethics
Honolulu - Washington, DC
Sarah Dees @sarahdees.bsky.social Professional nerd. American & Indigenous religions. History of museums + science + politics + race + empire (+ Dolly Parton). Editorial team @ Material Religion. My views. she/her.
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.
Chanhee Heo 허찬희 @chanheeheo.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis | race and religion in the pacific | dog mom
Jesse J Lee @jejale.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate
John C Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Historian of Asian American religion
PhD in Religious Studies, FSU
Anna Bigelow @annabigelow786.bsky.social Walking the dog, learning, teaching, and writing about religion, Islam, South Asia, material culture, death, and other things
Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies in Early America. UPenn Postdoc on Lenapehoking. Archival and Mushroom Nerd. Chronic Former Gifted Kid.
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Lisa H. Sideris @lsideris.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara; bird-lover (not a birder), lifelong wonderer, Midwestern transplant to the Best Coast, curmudgeon.
Environmental ethics, science and religion https://es.ucsb.edu/people/lisa-sideris
Greenberg Center at Trinity College @trincollgreenberg.bsky.social The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life was established in 1996 to examine the influence of religion on politics, civic culture, family life, gender roles, and other issues in the United States and elsewhere.
Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion @mavcor.bsky.social We promote conversation on material & visual cultures of religion
Sensory Cultures Research Group
MAVCOR Journal
Digital Spaces Project
http://mavcor.yale.edu
RelBib @relbib.bsky.social RelBib - Bibliography of the Study of Religion.
Official account of the Specialized Information Service for the Study of Religion.
#FID #Religionswissenschaft
https://relbib.de/Content/Impressum
Mustafa Türkan @mturkan.bsky.social Studies cinema’s visual politics in late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey | logistics of perception, disaster histories & speculative historiography. https://mustafaturkan.academia.edu/research