Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social | earlier CRAC UW & @humboldtuni.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | Bible, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity | http://bit.ly/3pIqAR9 | views own
John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | editor of Theoria @ Fordham Press
http://johnpenniman.com/
Digging Up The Past @diggingupthepast.net A podcast and a site dedicated to the latest historical news and research surrounding the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Visit: www.diggingupthepast.net
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
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
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
Mark Goodacre @goodacre.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. Host of the NT Pod. I post on New Testament, Christian origins, ABBA, and Doctor Who.
Providence College Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange @jewscatholicspc.bsky.social Est. 2007 | Dedicated to meaningful and honest interreligious learning, dialogue, and encounter | Events, News, Information, & Commentary | RT =/= endorsement
jewish-catholic.providence.edu
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social ERC-funded project on the sexual exploitation of people enslaved within the households of the greater Mediterranean world, AD 300-900. Hosted by
@uniofleicester
https://www.dosseproject.com
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
linktr.ee/americanmedievalshow
Sara Ronis @sararonis.bsky.social associate professor of theology at St. Mary's University TX. I think a lot about demons, fetuses, and other weird things.
She/Her
Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social Antiquity. Cats and kids. Books. Humanities. Education. NY/MA/TX
contact JoelChristensen @ gc.cuny.edu
Check out Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269239/storylife/
avatar by Beverly Beverung
Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social Mom of 4 in Oz
PI of the ISF Project Josephus Christianus
https://sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-christianus
Australian Catholic University
Melbourne
Late antiquity, books, Jews, Christians, humour, laughter etc.
🪔📚📜🦘
Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social Septuagint studies, Hebrew Bible, and all things Esther. Available for proofreading and editing academic publications. All memes handcrafted by me. https://gastrosophie.academia.edu/JoshuaAlfaro
Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social Gelobt seist du, Niemand
Currently studying Bible, Hebrew and Rabbinic lit now with Professorial validation of my forays into Critical Theory (poor fellow)
https://simonereadstexts.substack.com/
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Christopher B. Zeichmann @cbzeichmann.bsky.social biblical scholar and comic book enthusiast (he/they)
https://torontomu.academia.edu/ChristopherZeichmann
Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social Professor of Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies. Excavator of archives. Syria, Romans, photographs, Dura-Europos. Newfoundlander.
Joel Baden @joelbaden.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale University.
Seth Bernard @profbernard.bsky.social Romanist who has just left the empire, prof at U of Toronto
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Brandon Massey @mbrandonmassey.bsky.social PhD NT and Early Christianity | Independent Scholar | Historical Jesus | History of Scholarship | Synoptic Gospels | https://hcommons.org/members/brandonmassey/
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Sara Stone @wordsfromastone.bsky.social not Sarah, she/her • PhD researcher looking at victim-blaming in the Hebrew Bible at the University of Glasgow • Sara.Stone@glasgow.ac.uk
Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social PhD Theology (Biblical Studies/Disability Studies).
Researches New Testament presentations of disability and intersections of identity. 
Janelle Peters @janellepeters.bsky.social 
Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Gif Enthusiast.
My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
victoriaausten.com
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.
Matthijs den Dulk @matthijsdendulk.bsky.social NT & Early Christianity at Radboud | PhD, UChicago | 2025-32: PI NWO Vidi Project on Ethnicity and In/Equality in Early Christianity | Academic Director, Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER)
Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Fuck ICE. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Religion, Bible, and Theology department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.- A Adele Reinhartz @adeler.bsky.social I work on New Testament, in relation to Judaism, with sidelines in film studies and Holocaust memoirs.
Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social Teacher of students, baker of bread, writer of books. Anglican, Australian in the USA. Early Christianity specialist. On Quinnipiac land at Yale. Opinions my own. Weekly lectionary comments at abmcg.substack.com
Phil Harland @philharland.bsky.social Professor. Ancient history, vinyl records, biking, tap dancing
Craig Perry @caperry.bsky.social Teacher-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
Norbert Nagy @norbertnagy.bsky.social DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford interested in historical Jesus, slavery and New Testament studies.
Ian N Mills @iannelsonmills.bsky.social Research Fellow for the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry @AustralianCatholicUniversity | Ph.D. in Religion, Duke University | Cohost of @NTReviewPod | New Testament and the History of Christianity
Studies of Biblical Interest @biblicaljournal.bsky.social Studies of Biblical Interest (SBI) publishes a journal by scholars and students who are interested in espousing their new and original ideas about the Bible.
Learn more: https://www.biblicaljournal.org/
Jason Combs @jasoncombs.bsky.social Associate Professor at Brigham Young University | Scholar of New Testament and early Christianity | Writing about Gospels and about ancient Christian dreams
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social Husband, Father, Phd Student Classics at the University of Texas in Austin (he/him)
Cat Lambert @catlamb.bsky.social Assistant professor of Classics at Cornell, doing things with words and worms 
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.
profgabriele.com
Laura Locke Estes @lblestes.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Pepperdine | writes on Syriac Christian exegesis, early Islam, and construction of religious identity
Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
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.
Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social Scholar of Christian nationalism and the American Right. Award-winning author and podcaster. Co-host of @straightwhitejc and founder of Axis Mundi Media. Words: NYT, Rolling Stone, Politico, NBC, HuffPost, LARB, Revealer, and more.
www.axismundi.us
Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social Ancient Historian. Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PhD UChicago. Seleukid Empire, ancient archives, Hellenistic law, inscriptions, coins, antiquity in video games, & otters. 🇵🇷 (Bayamón) & 🏳️🌈
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her.
(specifics @ profirmf.com)
Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social author, Appalling Bodies (OUP)
co-editor, Trans Biblical (WJK)
founding co-editor, QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion
counter-kyriarchal killjoy
professor, religious studies + women’s and gender studies
a bit of a mess here
Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Info: www.ancienthistory101.org
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/ancienthistory101
Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/AncHist101/shop?asc=u
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Austin Goodwin Andrews @austin-glock.bsky.social late antique religion + material culture • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
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"
Jon Hatter @jonhatter.bsky.social Spouse. Parent. Associate Teaching Pastor. Former Instructor in Theology. PhD in New Testament/Early Christianity. I think/write about ancient enslavement. Dodging ennui by playing rockstar on the weekends. (He/Him)
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
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.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Esther Brownsmith, PhD @brownsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
Dr. Jennifer Quigley @jenniferquigley.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament
@candlertheology
UMC elder
Views my own, not my employer
Chrissy Hansen @chrissyhans97.bsky.social -An Ex-Adjunct
-Trans woman
-Historian of religious movements, linguist, literary critic
-Unashamed, hardcore Marxist, anti-revisionist
Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought.
book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76
new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god.
אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
NT at Oxford @nt4ox.bsky.social Graduate Studies in New Testament at Oxford University: Research, News, Seminars, Jobs, more
Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social Bible and theology prof at Providence (🇨🇦) | PhD in theological ethics from Aberdeen | long-suffering fan of the Winnipeg Jets and Arsenal Football Club
Sarah E. Rollens @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social Department Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College. PhD in the Study of Religion (EC&NT), University of Toronto & Centre for Jewish Studies (2013).
Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Writing on bodies, rituals, and social history in the Roman Empire
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
Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social PI and postdoktor @ Universitetet i Bergen | Analysing violent variations in ancient Jewish narrative (AViVa) | NFR prosjektnr 359600
Bethany Grainger @bethanyjoanna.bsky.social Ph.D. in New Testament, Wheaton College | Female patronage & benefaction in Greco-Roman world & Southern Levant | Epigraphy & Material Culture
Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar, Organizational Entrepreneur. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
Walter Scheidel @walterscheidel.bsky.social Historian @ Stanford | https://sites.google.com/view/walterscheidel/home
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social Renegade Bonhoeffer scholar. General editor, Bonhoeffer Works (English). I write about churches in Nazi Germany & the Holocaust. Here to discover new research, interesting books, poetry, music & occasionally the humor. www.victoriajbarnett.com
Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social PhD; associate professor of Roman history and literature; particularly enthusiastic about Roman religion and insults; author of Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination (Michigan, 1/2026); never speak for my employer
Jan Heilmann @janheilmann.bsky.social Professor of New Testament Studies (Biblical Theology), TU Dresden, interested in reading, meals, variants, canon, DH, LLMs, private account
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
Nathanael Vette @nathanaelvette.bsky.social Lecturer in New Testament, Gender and the Arts at King's College London. Ancient Judaism. Early Christianity. Golden Retrievers.
Faculty page: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/nathanael-vette
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Christy Cobb @christycobb.bsky.social PhD in New Testament & Early Christianity /
Associate Prof @ Univ. of Denver /
Slavery, Gender, Sexuality /
Single Mom by Choice (SMC) to a 8 yo
Dan Smith @drdansmith.bsky.social Vice President Academic | Dean of Theology | Wright Professor of NTΘ | Huron University College 🇨🇦
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/
@keithpinckney.bsky.social @keithpinckney.bsky.social PhD Cand. HB/OT University of St. Andrews
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- B Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social PhD in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis, postdoc at Stanford. Interests in disability, myth, economics, and materiality. More at www.blindscholar.com.
Laura Nasrallah @lsnasrallah.bsky.social Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
Erin Newton @erinnewton.bsky.social Editor, PhD student - Old Testament 🐉, contributing writer for Park Forum, nerd. Erincnewton.com. Typos are here because you get what you pay for on social media. 
Nate Kreider @natekreider.bsky.social Hebrew Bible and LXX, Greek Language and Linguistics, Papyri. Incoming PhD student at McGill.
Cavan Concannon @cavanconcannon.bsky.social John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics
Professor of Religion at USC
cavanconcannon.com
Eva Puschautz @eve9445.bsky.social catholic theologian/Post-Doc (new testament studies) at Uni Wien, traveller, musician. she/her
📍Vienna