Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @UICLAS professor of the ancient Mediterranean world. @UCLA, @UMich alum. Korean American, son of immigrants, striving anti-racist, not very good follower of Jesus
Jill Hicks-Keeton @jillhickskeeton.bsky.social 
Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.
Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social Public scholar of the Bible and religion
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Associate prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social Winnipeg Enthusiast. Noted idiot. In the war on cars.
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Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Writing on bodies, rituals, and social history in the Roman Empire
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Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies in Early America. UPenn Postdoc. Archival and Mushroom Nerd. Chronic Former Gifted Kid.
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
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New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
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New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
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Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University
Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025)
Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com
Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social #BLM | Professor in Mountains of NC | Nerd about Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine
Laura Nasrallah @lsnasrallah.bsky.social Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social "A happy, footnote-drugged maniac who disturbs the book mites in a dull volume, a foot thick, to find in it a reference to an even duller one."
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 مسمن.
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I.T. Soon @isaactsoon.bsky.social Writer of music, fiction, and scholarship. Recovering nihilist.
EthiopicManuscriptArt @artethiopic.bsky.social Lover of birds and beards || መፍቀሬ፡ ሥዕላት፡ || Ground Hornbill Artist fan || descriptions are sometimes silly || no politics, just love
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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
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:
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Nicolas Atas @zoxe.bsky.social PhD Student at KU Leuven in Syriac and Christian Arabic studies
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics and Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | Leiden (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch and English
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social Teacher-scholar of religion and ancient Christianities. Coptic language lover. Fighting for the Undercommons. Currently a Lecturer @ Spelman College | Assistant Editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies
Website: https://lcbmphd.com/
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
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I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
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Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
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.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Ancient Jew Review @ancientjewreview.bsky.social Ancient Jew Review is a subscription-free digital journal for the study of ancient Jews and their neighbors. ancientjewreview.com
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Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami; Professorial Research Fellow @Universität Wien (2026–2028)
https://linktr.ee/robynfaithwalsh
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Hugo Méndez @hugomendez.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author, The Epistles of John (Cambridge 2026) and The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford 2025) #LGM
Personal site: http://www.hugomendez.com
New Book: https://amzn.to/4jT6pJZ
Matthew R. Crawford @mcrawford.bsky.social Professor and Director of Research Program in Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Melbourne, Australia; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
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
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