David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.
Connie Chiang @connieychiang.bsky.social History & Enviro Studies prof at Bowdoin College. Editor of Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories @uwapress.bsky.social
Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Law @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder
Current projects:
Police Takeovers
Legalizing the Counterrevolution of Property
Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective
jonathonbooth.com
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
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Worst of the New York Times @nytimes.wtf Not affiliated with the New York Times, just a collection of missteps and facepalms. email submissions to nytimeswtf@gmail.com
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Who Makes Cents? @whomakescents.bsky.social A monthly podcast about the history of capitalism. Hosted by @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social and @dygottlieb.bsky.social
Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders @ashleighwrites.bsky.social Historian, currently researching Black memory. Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder. Lowcountry SC born and raised.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social Yes, I’m pulling the car over to look at plaques. I’ll be just a minute. Not a historian, but did minor in history at Indiana University. Formerly notgoingpro on other socials.
Typotheque @typotheque.com A type company
Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Author of Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria (Open-access link: https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49)
Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social Japan/World/Food/Migration historian. Nerd, geek, comics. Blogger. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Still masking. Views expressed are mine alone (RTs are someone else's). Cis he/him/his.
Same handle on Spore.Social.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
Roger Brown @rbjapan.bsky.social Marine & Historian. Research modern Japanese political & intellectual history, also interested in military history & US-Japan relations. 専門は日本近現代政治思想史、軍事史と日米関係史にも興味がある。
researchmap.jp/Roger_Brown
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
Akiko Takenaka @ata225.bsky.social Professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky. Book on motherhood and peace activism in Cold War Japan forthcoming in February 2025
Emily Anderson @imorianderson.bsky.social Sometimes scholar of Japanese Christianity and empire, sometimes curator of Japanese American stuff. I also knit and sew. And travel as often as possible. Also cat mom to Imogen the orange.
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Morgan Pitelka @mpitelka.bsky.social Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
Andrew Hall @andrewinfukuoka.bsky.social Teaching Japanese History at Kyushu University.
1960s student protests in Kyushu. Japanese colonialism in Korea, Manchuria.
Editor: "The Path and the Gate" "Education . . . Modern Korea, 1875-1945"
Reviews editor: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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/
清水唯一朗 Yuichiro SHIMIZU @ys-jpd.bsky.social Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan. Politics, History, Japanese Studies, Oral history.
慶應義塾大学総合政策学部教授(日本政治史)
Web: https://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~yuichiro/
Twitter: ys_jpd /Instragram: ys_jpd /Facebook: yuichiro.sfc
Joseph Henares @josephhenares.bsky.social ABD @Princeton. 外国人共同研究者 @UnivKyoto. Philosophy and intellectual history of modern Japan. 陳清風
Eri Kitada (北田依利) @eriktd.bsky.social Studying race, gender, and decolonial-feminist writing. #Philippines, #USEmpire, #JapaneseEmpire 🎤🍙🏳️⚧️ she/her/siya. PhD in History from Rutgers U-New Brunswick @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
https://rutgers.academia.edu/EriKitada
Dr. Kandra Polatis @knp31.bsky.social Historian and researcher. Interested in all things science and medicine. Passionate future educator. Detroit resident.
Nirupama Chandrasekhar @niruchandra.bsky.social UCSB PhD student, studying Okinawan tourism, colonialism, indigeneity, and public memory.
Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social Historian of Japan | Associate Professor @ucf.bsky.social | author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan @universitypress.cambridge.org | 日文研「外国人」研究員 (2027) | Ph.D. @UChicago
Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
Ray Matsumoto @raymatsumoto.bsky.social History PhD Student at UCLA | MA Graduate of History at WSU | Modern Japanese History, War Responsibility/Guilt, Memory Studies
Yuri Okuboぐれ子 @gureco2896.bsky.social 近現代日本史、日本帝国史
Historian/ Japanese Empire / migration-pioneer emigrants / peoples history / social history
Philippines, Okinawa, Taiwan, Micronesia
https://researchmap.jp/7000029861
Swallows fan / Brazilian music: Samba/ Kimono
Dana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
Shin Takahashi @sytakahashi.bsky.social Lecturer at Monash University. Historian. Okinawa/Japan/EastAsia. The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism (Bloomsbury 2024)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/translocal-island-of-okinawa-9781350411531
Fynn Holm @fynnholm.bsky.social Junior Professor at University of Tübingen; Environmental and Japanese historian; human-whales relationship; history of the Japanese Alps
Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social https://www.hannah-shepherd.com/
Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social A member-run, non-profit organization open to anyone interested in modern Japan or Japanese history.
mjha.org
History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social an online historical social movement archive
historykeepshappening.wordpress.com
historykeepshappening.bearblog.dev
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