Brenda Elsey @brendaelsey.bsky.social Prof and Historian of politics, gender, and pop culture esp fútbol in LatAm. Views expressed are my own. Co-host www.burnitalldownpod.com; anti-discrimination work with www.farenet.org; she/her, books on gender and sport: https://utpress.utexas.edu
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Carla Cevasco, PhD @carlacevasco.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies @ Rutgers-New Brunswick
historian of food and the body
carlacevasco.com
jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social New book: How Lesbians Saved Poetry. Professor at UT-Austin. Speaking for myself as a private citizen.
https://lisalmoore.com/
https://sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-Lesbians-Saved-Poetry
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska @mjrp.bsky.social a historian currently writing a book about how we do history now and another book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC
http://mjrymszapawlowska.com/
Samira K. Mehta @samirakmehta.bsky.social Scholar of American religion, especially American Judaism, focusing on Religion and Reproductive Politics in the US, Interfaith Families, Jews of Color. Knitter, cellist. Dogs and cats, living together!
Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams.com Host of the Assembly Required podcast. Democracy, DEI, policy, small business & storytelling. Opinions are my own. My latest novel CODED JUSTICE IS OUT NOW!
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
Nathan Tye, PhD @hobohistory.bsky.social Historian at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Studies hobos, transient labor, and literary history.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social Hello, Bluesky! We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting the knowledge and understanding of American history through programs for teachers, students, and the general public. Visit gilderlehrman.org to learn more.
Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social Public health & feminist demography | Reproductive coercion and autonomy | What we measure & why | Assistant Professor @ UW Madison | She/her | Views my own
Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
the hot dam historian (phd) @varsha.bsky.social will index your book in exchange for money, send me a book rec, dissertating at berkeley: history+dams+us foreign policy+india.
linktr.ee/varshaoforange
Great Farts of Literature @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social Elizabeth Zaleski, author of The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure and chief fart archivist at greatfartsofliterature.com. Mostly Onion reposts and ambivalent self-promo: https://beltpublishing.com/products/the-trouble-with-loving-poets
Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, religion, education, work 🏳️🌈
http://jonathancoley.com
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and your fav auntie. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Serious about Protecting Black girls and RJ.
🔗 Kalyncoghill.com
Jasmine @jasminedaria.bsky.social she/they. Wild woman. Book lady @kindredbookshop.bsky.social. Ecopreneur. Hobby collector. NCSU alum.
📍NC. *views are my own*
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Dr. Michael J. Albani, PhD @mjjalbani.bsky.social Historian & Museum Professional | R.E. Olds Transportation Museum Volunteer & Education Coordinator | @michiganstateu.bsky.social History Dept. PhD | @loyolahistdept.bsky.social MA (He/Him)
LifexCode @lifexcode.bsky.social An ecosystem of labs, projects, and members doing digital humanities against enclosure. Learn more lifexcode.org. AY 2025-2026 Keyword: FORMATION (Campt, "Loophole of Retreat-An Invitation" 2019)
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/
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com- M madmikedurante.bsky.social @madmikedurante.bsky.social
Brittany Griffiths @bmariegriffiths.bsky.social Director of Editorial, Design, and Production @cornellupress.bsky.social
Into anything in the realm of publishing studies, nautical history, horror, urban studies, media studies, or WWII.
Mary E. Mendoza @mmendoza.bsky.social Historian, writer, dog person.
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Justin L Mann @scottsvisor.bsky.social Jersey Boy in Chicago, Assistant Professor @ NU, Scott Summers apologist, blerd, ENTJ, ♐️. Ask me about my dungeons and dragons addiction.
Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸 🌩️👀 rJgnW3igNgz7
Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social Pulitzer prize-winning immigrant @propublica covering reproductive health from Texas. ProPublica Union Veep.
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Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
Hooper @hooperhooper.bsky.social UNC History PhD candidate. Historian of gay rights activism and lesbian-feminism, student activism in the gay liberation era, and the 1970s South. NC born/raised/now. he/him ⚣
Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social writer and culture editor at @indyweek.bsky.social | poetry + fiction sometimes, gchat often | sedwards@indyweek.com | eddysarah.substack.com
Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social Historian; Author of Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom (2026); Freedom in the Age of Slavery (2026); Beyond Slavery's Shadow (2021); and more at warrenmilteer.com
Christie Henry @christiehenry.bsky.social PublisHER: grateful for humanity of book people & communities they create. Director of Princeton University Press.
Choice Reviews @choicereviews.bsky.social A publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. We support the work of academic librarians by providing tools and services that help them become effective advocates for their patrons
Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Bostonian |🎙️ Ben Franklin’s World | 🐾 Mother of schnauzers | I help adults see how early America shapes today.
https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
Kate Masur @katemasur.bsky.social Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com.
Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social Preserves and shares history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today.
Selena M Moon @selenammoon.bsky.social Disabled hafu Japanese American historian researching JA disability, mixed race, military hist, Smith College, UMass Public Hist. UMN American Studies #PhD student, Accessibility consultant ♿ author #DisabilitySky she/her views mine https://selenammoon.com
ZLibrarian @zolam.bsky.social Librarian, history researcher, writer, OER, gardening, arts, collaboration, communities, speculative fiction, dancing. Reader. ALA, ACRL. She/her. No DMs.
Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social Historian at Harvard, senior editor at The Drift, contributing writer at Jewish Currents, author of Make Your Own Job
madeleineebaker.com
Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social Principal of Forthcoming LLC, a publishing consultancy; Member of @limnpress.bsky.social editorial collective; Researcher & practitioner of scholarly publishing; Digital explorer–analog sailor; Victim of meaning.
NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social "Downtown to the World," NYU Press amplifies NYU's leadership in global higher education and research through influential publications that embody the university's core mission and creative identity.
Find us at: nyupress.org
Fredric Nachbaur @fnachbaur.bsky.social Academic book publisher, foodie, runner, aspiring pianist, hat lover, and die-hard New Yorker
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Jocelyn Dawson @jocelyndawson.bsky.social Director of Journals, Penn Press. Views my own. NC resident, VA native.
@editrixmosser.bsky.social @editrixmosser.bsky.social
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Emily Snyder Bandy @ebandy.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor at @upmississippi.bsky.social
📚 Film & TV | Food & Foodways | History | Media
📍JXN, MS
ellie c @pinebeltblues.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🖤💜🤍
ref librarian & law prof @ UNC law library
PhD student @ UNC AmSt
UE150
she/her from AL
Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social Writer, editor, dancer, souper. Coeditor of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR MEANS TO US. Various responsibilities @ University of Illinois Press, South Side Weekly, Theater Oobleck, Soup & Bread. Essays @ marthabayne.substack.com. .
Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social Scholarly Communication - all of it, Open Research, research assessment, research culture, research integrity. They are parts of the same whole.
American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. #histmed
Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social Inside Higher Ed policy reporter
Gabriela Bueno Gibbs @gbuenogibbs.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor for Environmental and Political Science at the MIT Press. Ph.D. from UMass Boston and Master of Laws from Yale Law School. She/her.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
@jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social Historian of the Native South, Indian Territory, Five Tribes, American Education, and Social Welfare who likes spending time with some archaeologists. Citizen of the Cherokee Nation
Kirtan Nautiyal @knautiyal.bsky.social Essays in Aeon, The Guardian, Guernica, Electric Literature, Longreads, etc. Working on a collection about my search for home.
www.kirtannautiyal.com
Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information.
publishersweekly.com
COPE @publicationethics.bsky.social Promoting integrity in scholarly research and its publication, COPE brings together all involved in scholarly research and its publication to strengthen the network of support, education and debate in publication ethics.
https://publicationethics.org/
BioOne @bioone.bsky.social BioOne is an innovative nonprofit collaborative and the leading content aggregator in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
NISO @nisoinfo.bsky.social News, publications, events, and membership info from the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).
Kathleen DuVal @kathleenduval.bsky.social Historian, UNC professor
Michael Patrick Cullinane @mikecullinane.bsky.social NJ by birth, Cork by marriage, historian, NY Yankees fan, cocktail lover.
Let's talk about Theodore Roosevelt. Or the Gilded Age. Or whiskey.
https://shows.acast.com/gildedageandprogressiveera
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Latin American and Caribbean History @UWMadison. ✍️The Lettered Barriada (DukeUP); Puerto Rico: A National History (PrincetonUP/Planeta); A Counter-Republic of Letters (under contract w/ DukeUP). 🇵🇷
💾: https://linktr.ee/jmelendezbadillo
Keisha | The Blerd Library @theblerdlibrary.bsky.social I’ve been nominated for stuff but I’m your friendly neighborhood recluse ☺️
Co-host of @pinkriotcomicshow 💗
Blog: Deconstruction & Blerdom 🖤❤️💚
Book Club: Neon Moons on Bindery
https://theblerdlibrary.com/
https://linktr.ee/theblerdlibrary
ACLU of North Carolina @aclunc.bsky.social Protecting the civil rights and liberties of all North Carolinians.
https://www.acluofnc.org | http://pal.bio/aclu_nc
Rashad Shabazz @drshabazzz.bsky.social Scholar and author of Prince’s Minneapolis https://uncpress.org/9781469690957/princes-minneapolis/
Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social Author of SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy 📚 Order here: https://a.co/d/dDydwxe. Currently: co-director Kansas Pop Center & associate professor, KU. Formerly: Census|NIH|USDOL.
Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social Assistant Prof of English at UT Austin. Author of PARASITIC EMPIRES (forthcoming Fall 2026, UNC Press). From Karachi. ✍🏼 on empire/poco, disability, medhums, and more recently Sindh. www.bassamsidiki.com
Kelly Therese @feministkelly.bsky.social Univ admin by day. Knitter & Podcaster by night. Feminist mom in Chicago always. Lover of mystery novels, espresso, sauv blanc & kittens. She/her.
Host, Unsung History. https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
Writing a transatlantic family history/memoir.
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism.
Board president, Truthout.
Co-editor “We Grow the World Together”
Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name”
Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan
mayaschenwar.com
Jeannette Ho @jeannho.bsky.social Cataloging/Metadata Librarian at Texas A&M University
@nicolethelibrarian.bsky.social @nicolethelibrarian.bsky.social
Town of Chapel Hill @chapelhillgov.bsky.social This is the official Town of Chapel Hill Bluesky account.
Visit us at chapelhillnc.gov
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
Jessica Ann Levy @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social Historian. Professor. Writer. Podcaster | US and/in the World + corporations + post-apartheid/postcolonialism | Author of Black Power, Inc. | Co-host @WhoMakesCents
Ian Lekus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @ianlekus.bsky.social Global LGBTQI+ human rights activist | Historian, Writer, Coach, Consultant | “Queer & Present Dangers,” forthcoming @ UNC Press | Star Trek, soccer, cats, bears, otters, puns, photography | Washington, DC
SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social The Society for Military History and the Journal of Military History's Official Bluesky Page.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social Journalist for hire. EIC The Film Maven. Bylines @latimes @goldenglobes @variety Author BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ROMANCE EDITION. Upcoming: WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS (2027). ♿️ Repped by Falkin Literary.
Subscribe to my site: http://www.thefilmmaven.com
Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary. *Japan, religion, & counterculture. Forthcoming book, "The Secret World: An Ethnography of Shugendo in Northeastern Japan" w/ UNC Press slated for publication in Nov. 2025.
Colleen O’Neill @cmoneill.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and Native American workers. Also a dog lover, knitter, and live music aficionado.
Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social Professor & Founding Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Stony Brook University.
“An opinionated bastard” —Kay Walkingstick
Brent Howard @brenthoward.bsky.social Agent at Gramercy Literary, representing historians and journalists. Former book editor at PRH. Reader of history. Will never give up the em dash. Inquire at brent@gramercyliterary.com
Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.” The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025. 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿History is the only education; everything else is just training.
Karen Racine @klracine.bsky.social Historian. Age of Revolution. Spanish America and Great Britain. Atlantic World. Co-editor of Atlantic Crossings book series (University of Alabama Press). Canadian.
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.