Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social PhD candidate, modern German architecture | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine | New Orleans (for now)
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
David Tamayo @davidtamayo.bsky.social Historian writing a book on the conservative middle classes in 20th-c Mexico | Professor at UM | https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/tamayo.html.
Gale Kenny @galekenny.bsky.social Historian of US religion // knitter // author of Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire (NYU Press)
josephkimmel.bsky.social @josephkimmel.bsky.social Scholar of early Christianity and comparative theology | Harvard PhD 2023 | Completing a monograph for OUP on comparative demonologies | Adjunct Professor at Boston College | Assistant Rector at St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church (Lincoln, MA)
jeffbamaca.bsky.social @jeffbamaca.bsky.social PhD Student @CGU| NT & Early Christianity | L.A. |
Andrew Walker-Cornetta @awalkercornetta.bsky.social American Religion | Disability | Catholic Studies | Health Humanities
Kara Alexandra Culp @karaalexandraculp.bsky.social History PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin
Latino Education History + Public History
Rachel Grace Newman @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social Book out now! Free download
The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-future-in-their-hands/paper
Asst. Prof of History at Colgate
Hosting convos on new books @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
Prof Barbara Bompani @barbara-bompani.bsky.social Academic working on Public Religion & Int Development in Africa. Dipartimento Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali & Imprese Culturali. Universita’ di Parma, Italy
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
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
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).
Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates. Writer about religion & politics for four decades. Author. Editor. Public speaker. Occasional commentator.
Ekaputra Tupamahu @ekaputrat.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament | Author of Contesting Languages (OUP, 2022) | Indonesian | Reposts ≠ endorsements.
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
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🏃♂️✅
Jon-Paul Lapeña @jonpaulism.bsky.social Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow @Emory | PhD @Yale | NT/early Christianity/ies, ancient health care & addiction | first-gen
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Professor, probably thinking about emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
Sonya 🕊️ @sonya.eurosky.social 🚺 She/her
⭐️ Tejana
📍 Houston, TX
Professional interests: immigration, public international law, & natsec
Personal interests: pop culture, tech, & cats
Matthew David Goodwin @latinxfiles.bsky.social Editor of the Latinx Archive Speculative Trilogy: Latinx Rising, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, and Not Your Papi's Utopia. Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UNM. Active agent in the Speculative Detective Agency.
Nicole Carroll @nxcarroll.bsky.social PhDing in Religious Studies at Stanford | thinking about American religion, secularism, carcerality, and urban space
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.
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Patrick Tugwell @ptugwell.bsky.social Doctoral student in religious studies at UC Santa Barbara. United Methodist minister and former healthcare chaplain.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Creighton Coleman @creightoncoleman.bsky.social Writing about Pentecostalism and politics. Working @UVA.
Fannie Bialek @fanniebialek.bsky.social friend, countryman, religion and politics prof @ washu
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
www.mirayphilips.com
@lizrplatt.bsky.social @lizrplatt.bsky.social Director, The Law, Rights and Religion Project @lawrightsreligion.bsky.social at @unionseminary.bsky.social. I write, speak, and teach about religious liberty law.
Christian Pattavina @pattavina.bsky.social Religion scholar in the City of Angels
Brian Mueller @briansmueller.bsky.social "Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies & Progressive Foreign Policy" (Penn Press, 2021). Next: 1980s Central American Peace Movement.
https://brian-mueller.com/
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Cody Musselman @cody-musselman.bsky.social PhD in American Religion. Teaching at Harvard. Writing about religion, fitness, health, and consumer culture.
Elisabeth Macias @ejmunfun.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Georgetown. 20th century Latinx urban history and schools. Former HS teacher.
Daniel Amir @danamir.bsky.social Londoner in search of Gondi
'Jewish Iran: Modern Nationalism in Print' (Stanford) out July 2026
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social Researching and writing about American Christianity, gender, media, and politics.
Postdoc at Wesleyan University.
Seth Perry @gradualdigging.bsky.social 
Michael Baysa @mbaysa.bsky.social Religion, Media Technologies, and Early America, teaching at the University of Vermont, PhD in American Religions from Princeton University
Ashley Wood @ashleywood.bsky.social Foreign policy, democracy, public opinion. D.C. staffer from Florida by way of @ForeignAffairs.com, @state-department.bsky.social, NSC46, Nat Sec Action. Personal views.
Charlie McCrary @mccraryc.bsky.social I write and teach about US religion, secularism, religious freedom, spirituality, race, politics, etc. I work at Eckerd College.
https://www.eckerd.edu/religious-studies/faculty/mccrary/
Sarah Kizuk @smkay.bsky.social Skidmore College in philosophy; settler colonialism, affect, and place; cat & snack fan. she/her.
Jeremy Ruby @jeremyruby.bsky.social music, movies, #hatm, soccer/calcio, foodie, and history
André Gagné @profgagne.bsky.social Professeur titulaire - Full Professor, @Concordia | Recherche - Research: Pentecôtismes - Pentecostalisms; Religion et politique - Religion and Politics; Évangéliques - Evangelicals
• Lien à ma page facultaire - Faculty page: https://shorturl.at/Riclq
Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social Latin Americanist (Lit. Hist. Pol.) Escritor, Profe. Lector. DPIP 💚 ✍🏼 Descomposiciones; Bolaño: Investigador Desvelado; Las instrucciones (2026); Terror (2026)🇵🇷 ☕ 🥑🦀🌎
Olivia Ojeda @omoniqueo.bsky.social American Lit, 20th c, borderlands, race, identity | go Giants ⚾️ | mandolin | An Academic Odyssey Podcast
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
Yasemin Toron @yasemintoron.bsky.social Scholar of American literature and culture
🔏 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1085-6991
Languages: 🇩🇪🇹🇷🇪🇸🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
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
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
Mike Innis-Jimenez @innisjimenez.bsky.social Latinx Historian, Professor of American Studies, co-editor of UNC Press' Latinx Histories book series
Candace Mixon, Ph.D. @candacemix.bsky.social 11/26 e-book released for my first monograph, _Fatimeh Matters in Contemporary Iran_ with Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion; print to follow in 12/26! https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fatimeh-matters-in-contemporary-iran-9781350588189/
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Michael Amoruso @mikeytwice.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Religion at Occidental College // urban religion in the US & Brazil
www.michaelamoruso.com
Nicholas T. Pruitt @ntphistory.bsky.social Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
Stephen @stephenwaldron.bsky.social Theologian writing a book on the political theology of the New Apostolic Reformation. Websites: https://stephenwaldron.substack.com/
theologyandsociety.com
Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social Anthropologist.
New project: Christianity and Fossil Fuels (what I call "Carbon Christianity").
Ongoing Research: Honduras, Christianity, Secularism, Race and Religion.
https://mtholyoke.academia.edu/WilliamGirard
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.
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Katie Holscher @katieinnm.bsky.social Religious Studies / American Studies at UNM. Historian of Catholicism / Bad Catholic. I write about Catholic missions / horror/ abuse / church-state etc. NW Indiana -> Philly -> Albuquerque (505!). 🇵🇸 Will probably just post stuff about running.
Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Writing on bodies, rituals, and social history in the Roman Empire
Kerry Buttram @kerrybuttram.bsky.social Transplanted Yank in the Netherlands. Anglican priest. Slow Dutch learner. Under sea level. Wobbly cyclist. Anti-fascist. Jesus loves us all, even the worst of the worst. No DMs pls.
American Religions at Stanford @argcstanford.bsky.social Interdisciplinary hub for the study of American Religions in a Global Context @Stanford. Find out more: http://argc.stanford.edu
Pete Cajka @petecajka.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Prof/Director of Undergraduate Studies. U of Notre Dame, American Studies. Historian. Catholic. Augustinian/Existentialist. Writes about...Catholics. Midwesterner. Dad. Tottenham fan.
@mgraziano.bsky.social @mgraziano.bsky.social Religious Studies prof at University of Northern Iowa. Law, Public Education, National Security. Book on CIA & American religion. Probably drinking coffee. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo80657461.html Views are my own
@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social Jogging the collective memory of Los Angeles through social media since 2009. Some people think LA has no history. They just don't know where to look.
Karen O’Donnell @karenod.bsky.social “Earthy, funny, tender, and frank” Rambo
Feminist theologian working on bodies, theologies, trauma, liturgy, Song of Songs, and smashing the patriarchy.
Westcott House & Cambridge University (views my own etc etc)
Vanessa Delgado @vanessadelgado.bsky.social Sociologist. I study immigrant families, Latino/a children of immigrants, and coming of age.
vanessadelgado.com
Youssef Chouhoud @chouhoud.bsky.social Arab and Muslim public opinion, MENA, Religion & Politics, Race & Ethnicity
Research Scientist, Yaqeen Institute
إسكندراني / Brooklynite
#YNWA
www.chouhoud.com
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University studying political marginalization, immigrant integration, and moralization. https://sites.google.com/view/kristinabsimonsen/
Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
anthony ocampo @anthonyocampo.bsky.social Writing ON THE MARGINS OF JUSTICE | Wrote THE LATINOS OF ASIA, BROWN & GAY IN LA | VONA | Tin House | Asian Am Sociology Editor, NYU Press | Rep’d by: Amanda Orozco | Speaking: jean@speakoutnow.org | Sociology Professor, Cal Poly Pomona | MFA Student, SFSU
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Abigail Andrews @abigailandrews.bsky.social Sociologist @USPUCSD. Study gender, migration, state violence, agency. Direct http://mmfrp.org. Books: Undocumented Politics(2018) & Banished Men(2023). #AcademicMama
Stephanie L. Canizales @stephcanizales.bsky.social Sociologist // Author of ‘Sin Padres, Ni Papeles’ @UCPress & ‘Everyday Futures’ @StanfordPress
Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. I write about Revelation and gender, queer hermeneutics. Currently working on a book about color, race, and Revelation. Originally from PDX. I love dogs. I craft and make art.
www.lynnrhuber.com
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds @profjte.bsky.social Scholar and teacher of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Maria Cristina Garcia @ithacamcg.bsky.social Historian of (im)migration at Cornell
San Antonio Spurs fan 🏀
hurstonian @ahmadgreene.com 🏫 professor, writer, lover
✨views are my own.
N. Fadeke Castor @spiritcitizen.bsky.social Black feminist ethnographer, African diaspora religions scholar, 💜 Ifá, Egbe & Orisa, Trini, author of award-winning Spiritual Citizenship (Duke 2017), YNWA
https://www.fadekecastor.com/