Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social JD/PhD. Interdisciplinary sociologist, law & society, transnational gender & sexuality. I research marriage, esp in S Africa. And I organize with colleagues to defend higher ed. Opinions mine not employer's.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
The Lever @levernews.com Award-winning, reader-supported media outlet holding power accountable. LeverNews.com
Blake Hartung @bahartung.bsky.social Teaching Professor, Arizona State University
When I have time, I research and write on late antiquity, early Christianity, Syriac literature, and the Mandaeans
My book: https://brill.com/display/title/68207?language=en
Candace Mixon, Ph.D. @candacemix.bsky.social 11/12/26 e-book released for my first monograph, _Fatimeh Matters in Contemporary Iran_ with Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion; print to follow 12/10/26! https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fatimeh-matters-in-contemporary-iran-9781350588189/
Jordan Rosenblum @profrosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Classical Judaism, University of Wisconsin-Madison; studies ancient food and plays modern guitar (he/him)
Aunt Teefah @feralfishwife.bsky.social Anti-fasc 317 Progressive
I like my coffee iced and my church and state separate.
Dark liquor, darker humor.
Rev. Abigail @revabigail.bsky.social Unitarian Universalist minister + interfaith chaplain (she/her)
@lizstewartmiranda.bsky.social @lizstewartmiranda.bsky.social
KT @klthorn7.bsky.social Thriving 💗 Warrior, Persevering & Thriving, living loudly, standing with all those 💙, Bluesier, and working to make life better for all. 🚫MAGA, 🚫DMs. You will be blocked.
Rob @history-rob.bsky.social Husband, father to 4 teenagers, into software development and dabbles in history, politics, architecture, and baking. Hoosier; he / him
James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Medievalist, environmental historian, penguin historian. Incoming editor of Environmental History. Author of Medieval Riverscapes, Negotiating the Landscape, and Water in World History. EFArnold.com
Penguin (even when you struggle you're still a penguin)
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Erica Buchberger @ericabuchberger.bsky.social History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. https://www.ericabuchberger.com/
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @unibonn.bsky.social
Exploring what happens when empires die.
Publications available at http://jmharland.hcommons.org
https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/altegeschichte/personen/james-harland
L. Renato Grigoli, PhD @lrpsnaps.bsky.social Medievalist, Legal Historian, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://lrphotography.art/
Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social Medieval History / Fordham University / editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion / Canadian / chaotic good
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social Medieval historian @Uni-Bonn 🎓@degruyterbrill, @WissenVerbindet & @OxUniPress monographs 💡Western Europe, Byzantium, mobility, military, digital humanities ✐Heisenberg (DFG)
Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @glasgow.ac.uk. Writes on the medieval Roman Empire, Britain, and everything in between.
Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social Medievalist at Heidelberg University.
'We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love.' - J. R. R. Tolkien (1943)
Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Ancient History at UMass Lowell. Research: Roman merchants, ancient numismatics, greed, stereotypes. Self: embroidery, tea, long walks, and ice hockey.
Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Evan Schultheis @evanschultheis.bsky.social M.A. History, Winthrop University. B.S. Chemistry. Specializing in Late Roman and Byzantine Military Archaeology, Culture, and History. Author, "The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, A.D. 451." Reenactor. Views are my own. #ActuallyAutistic
Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social Recovering academic who just can't seem to quit
Linda Gosner @lgosner.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist (Spain, Portugal, Sardinia).
International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. ICMS 2027: Thursday, May 13, through Saturday, May 15, 2027.
Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social historian of archaeology, recovering early medievalist, newly implanted Vancouver academic, immigrant and granddaughter of immigrants, she/her, views my own
Jesse Keskiaho @jkeskiah.bsky.social Early medieval historian and manuscript scholar, docent @helsinki.fi. Researching ideas about the soul, annotations to Augustine, dreams. He/him.
Otávio Luiz • 奥塔维奥 @profotavio.bsky.social Professor de História da África na Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Coordenador do Grupo de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos (GEAFRAS).
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
Mirela Ivanova @mirela.bsky.social Lecturer in History. Pre-modern Balkans, Russia, Turkey. BBC New Generation Thinker. Social climber🎓. Rock climber 🧗. Loves context.
Damián Fernández @historiantillo.bsky.social Opinions my own, though they probably reflect the deep structures and contradictions of late capitalism.
Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social Roman and Byzantine Archaeology from Athens GA.
Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social Medievalist and Digital Humanist at @leedsims.bsky.social doing @manuscriptsetc.bsky.social. Co-founder of @kismetpress.bsky.social. Director of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Was at KU Libraries (KS, USA) & Arnamagnæan Insitute (Denmark). nkyavuz.com
Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social Archaeology, History, Hagiography, Folklore & Landscapes of Early Irish Christianity & Early Medieval Ireland. Includes thinly veiled but good-natured irreverence, outrageous puns and irregular posts.
Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira @jcmo77.bsky.social Professor, historiador, mineiro e corinthiano
Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social Historian / early medieval canon law / Radboud University / Utrecht
Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity. British Academy Postdoc at University of Liverpool. Hispanophile, Leodensian.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/david-addison- Z Thomas Kohl @zezzo796.bsky.social Medieval Historian, University of Passau
Catherine-Rose Hailstone @caterose.bsky.social Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Early Medieval History at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Currently writing up her Leverhulme Trust monograph on Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in the Churches of Late Antique Gaul.
Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social Digital historian, medieval & late antique historian, educational researcher, occasional coder, nerd of many flavors. Views my own.
Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
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🏃♂️✅
Paulo Pachá @pacha.bsky.social Professor de História Medieval na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University
Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social
Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social Historian of the Early Middle Ages based in York.
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
Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com she/they🏳️🌈| author & editor | Egypt: Coptic Studies (martyrology, music); Egyptology (TIP, AE religion) | Indigenous (reconnecting Haudenosaunee & Métis) | Haiti/Vodou | tech & its (mis)use | religion | RS≠endorsement | linktree/tamarasiuda | patreon/tsiuda
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Daniel Hansen @danrhan.bsky.social (they/he) PhD candidate in anthropology @ the University of Chicago. Picts, "heritage," identity, early medieval Scotland.
Otherwise: motorsport, baseball, mandolin, and birds. All views my own.
Website: danrhan.com
Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social Environmental historian of first-millennium Britain/Ireland and Merovingian Gaul.
PhD Candidate at Georgetown researching infectious disease, rebel nuns, and disaster.
Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night.
rachelbsinger.com
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Dr. Angela Costello @zostepatrikia.bsky.social Dress and Textile Historian/Archaeologist @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Florida woman. she/her
Silvia Holm @silviaholm.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Rostock, working on late Roman imperial succession, interested in Greek & Roman Epigraphy
Ella Kirsh @ellakirsh.bsky.social Stenography and social history in Late Antiquity. Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge.
Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Warsaw working on fourth-century Antioch. PhD on the sons of Constantine and church politics from Exeter. 🇦🇺 in 🇵🇱 She/her.
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social Prof @ Providence College and lifelong resident of #RhodeIsland (more or less)
#Sabbaticaling
#EarlyChristianity
#Photography
#VirtualTravel
#SartorialTheology
#Interfaith
#Covid
Posts about ma figghia (that's Sicilian), my toddler daughter, too!
Bailey Freeburn @baileyafreeburn.bsky.social PhD student at Brown. Thinking about late antiquity, sexuality, trauma. Chronically tired, perpetually annoying. she/her.
International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social Bridging Disciplines • Supporting Scholarship • Connecting the Public at catacombsociety.org.
CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway.
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
Christian Schweizer @cgschweizer.bsky.social Medieval historian and Latinist, specialised on the Irish and Carolingian scholar Dicuil, now editing and translating early medieval formularies of letters and charters @formlitchart.bsky.social
Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social Teacher, Latinist, Thought Follower. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
SCORE @rebellionuhh.bsky.social Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Antonio Vargas 🏳️🌈 @philoantonio.bsky.social Philosophy courses:
antoniofilosofo.com
Astrology:
antoniofilosofo.com/astrologia
He/him/his 🏳️🌈
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
Geschichte und Gegenwart Alteuropas @gga-hagen.bsky.social Geschichte der Vormoderne an der FernUniversität in Hagen — Von der Antike über das Mittelalter in die Frühe Neuzeit.
Neben Werbung in eigener Sache Literaturneuerscheinungen und Veranstaltungshinweise für unsere Studierenden
Frontière·s | Antiquité-Moyen Âge @frontiere-s.bsky.social Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’art. Un espace de réflexion en Open Access sur les sociétés antiques et médiévales
Journal of Archaeology, History & Art History. An Open Access space to reflect on ancient and medieval societies
Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books
sé/he/il/er/han
Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social Writing about imperial women to understand late antiquity:
history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory
And about: crime, punishment, imprisonment, prosopography, namelessness, digital humanities, and 👆 THE CITY OF ROME
@dependencybonn.de
Alberto Rigolio @albertorigolio.bsky.social Professor, Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
Marion Pragt @worldlyscribe.bsky.social Syriac, late antiquity, manuscripts, sheep and tea.
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social Historian of the late ancient world: Sasanian Iran, the Caucasus, and the Eastern Roman Empire. Professor at William Paterson University. I like cats, photography, and sweet cabbage pierogi.
Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
British Academy International Fellow (2024-2027)
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social Research Fellow in Latin at Radboud University Nijmegen. Specializing in Late Antiquity, in particular Sidonius Apollinaris. Website https://sidonapol.org
Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.
Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social Book History, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, TV, and the New York Knickerbockers
Roma Medieval / Pablo Díaz @romamedieval.bsky.social ROMA: Historia 📖 | Arte 🖌| Arqueología ⛏ | Arquitectura 🏛
Pablo Díaz Gutiérrez 👨🏻💻
Archaeologist 🏛 Ph.D. at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology 🇮🇹 🇻🇦 | Rome/Vatican City
Noah Blan @noahwblan.bsky.social historian. teacher. friend to all cats. anti-fascist. space dust for your fuel rods.- A Audrey Becker @audreybecker.bsky.social historienne par hasard, européenne par conviction, spontanée par nature / historian by chance, European by conviction, spontaneous by nature
Catherine Keane @ckeane.bsky.social Late antique archaeologist & Byzantine art historian at the University of Glasgow
| Previously: Tübingen / Koç University / Philipps-Uni. Marburg / LMU Munich
| Out now: https://brill.com/display/title/70278
Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social Latinist, late Roman historian
Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
Dan Schwartz @bergdenker.bsky.social Late Antiquity, Syriac Studies, Digital Humanities. I promise I'll write something clever after one more cup of coffee. (he, him)
Deborah Schlein @djschle.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies librarian | Middle East, South Asia research | manuscripts, marginalia, mild mayhem | history of medicine and science | PhD
Mark Masterson @markjmasterson.bsky.social Byzantinist. Flutist. Author of Between Byzantine Men (Routledge 2022) and Man to Man (Ohio 2014) Former Associate Professor of Classics, Victoria University, New Zealand (now retired).
Orcid: 0000-0001-9964-8672
Nikos Tsivikis @ntsivikis.bsky.social Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology from outer space - Amorium and Messene excavation - Researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation