@amulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social - C chtarnop.bsky.social @chtarnop.bsky.social I am a retired academic interested in volunteering, reading and re-reading everything Plato, Donald Davidson, and Marx ever wrote, studying the role of emotions and aesthetics in politics, climate catastrophe, cooking, democratic politic, and whittling.
Atrios @eschatonblog.com I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
Suzie Kim @zeno125.bsky.social Political Theorist @umass
Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social Writes and researches legal and political theory & sometimes Italian history. Edits Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy. Flutes, runs, reads, cooks, swims, snaps, goes to concerts, galleries, plays & films. Lives London-Exeter-Berlin-Livorno
Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social Poli Sci Prof @Brown JD/PhD
My podcast: The Oath and the Office: https://shorturl.at/H7vGP
My book: The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It: https://shorturl.at/z31fC
Sandra Raponi @sraponi.bsky.social Philosophy professor, JD, PhD.
Political & legal philosophy, global justice, international human rights law.
Working on human rights-based climate litigation, right to food & water, refugees, online speech.
Zen Buddhism, pottery, piano.
Lori Marso @lorimarso.bsky.social Author of (most recently) Feminism and the Cinema of Experience
Political and feminist theorist at Union College
Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago. Previously a postdoc at Stanford Ethics. Alumna of the University of Chicago and El Colegio de México.
Political theory + ethnographic methods 🌱
www.yunablajer.com
Cristina Beltrán @cristinabeltran.bsky.social NYU professor working in political theory, Latinx, and race & gender politics; most recent book is CRUELTY AS CITIZENSHIP. Skeptical of social media but keep hearing good things about Bluesky!
Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social I work on social and political theory, history of ideas, & historical sociology. Postdoc and ext. lecturer at RUC/incoming assistant professor at CBS. He/him. Skeets=personal opinion/objective truth≠employer. Danish Marxism. 🇵🇸 Homepage: mikkelflohr.com
Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
Berkay Koçak @qerqay.bsky.social PhD Political Science | fellow @otago & @waikato |
| political economy | social history of political theory | Kant |
Website: https://drqerqay.com/
X: https://x.com/drqerqay
Kevin Duong @ktduong.bsky.social Teach political theory
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Kevin Pham @kdpham.bsky.social Political Theorist. University of Amsterdam.
Matt Harvey @aestheticsof9.bsky.social Political Theory PhD (CU Boulder) | postdoc at Princeton | works on new materialism and environmental aesthetics | Nintendo kid | rave hooligan | rocking the gay/autistic wombo-combo
Avshalom Schwartz @avshalom.bsky.social Assistant Professor @SMU polisci | Political theory; Ancient and early modern political thought; The political imagination | Ph.D. @Stanford
www.avshalomschwartz.com
Alison McQueen @aejm.bsky.social Associate Professor | Department of Political Science | Stanford University.
Working on religion in early modern political thought, treason and political betrayal, and digital humanities. Associate Editor, APSR.
www.alisonmcqueen.info
Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory at Oxford & author of Mere Civility (Harvard 2017). Essays @ NYT, The Atlantic, New Statesman, Boston Review, WaPo, &c.
Writing on equality.
Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social Political theorist at Dublin City University. Author of Edmund Burke (Polity, 2024) and Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton UP, 2021). Increasingly interested in abolition/emancipation and multigenerational democracy.
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Patti T Lenard @pattitlenard.bsky.social Prof of political theory and applied ethics at UO; advocate for lgbtiq+ refugees 🌈; defender of multiculturalism; sloth in profile pic is named Mani
Moya Lloyd @profmoyalloyd.bsky.social Political theorist. Currently writing about embodied agency, resistance, corporeal politics, vulnerability, and marginality, drawing on feminist and critical theory. Own views.
Andrew Shorten @andrewshorten.bsky.social Political theorist in Limerick
Hagen Schölzel @hagenschoelzel.de Political Philosophy and Theory | https://www.hagenschoelzel.de | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hagen-Schoelzel
Friderike Spang @friderikespang.bsky.social https://friderikespang.com/
Postdoctoral Researcher
@Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
@Center for Environmental & Technology Ethics Prague
Political philosophy, environmental & animal ethics.
Also interested in everything on emotions.
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.
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Peng Yu @pengyu.bsky.social political theorist; associate professor of politics at Earlham College; writing my book on anarchism and the Zhuangzi
Noah Stengl @nbstengl.bsky.social Political Theory Lecturer @ UW-Madison.
Here for Truth.
May occasionally post about teaching and learning in a backsliding democracy.
Authoritarians in the mirror are closer than they appear.- S S. Ani Mukherji @sanimukherji.bsky.social Believer in ink and paper.
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/67299/
https://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com/shop/p/grundy-lakes-landscape-and-history
zoltangaborszucszagoni.bsky.social @zoltangaborszucs.bsky.social Political theorist, liberal realist, boring.
Omedi Ochieng @omediochieng.bsky.social Critic, Student, Professor
Ian Walling @ianwalling.bsky.social Political Theorist. VAP at Valparaiso University. Socialist Aristotelian.
Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social Politics professor & AUFA member at Acadia U. Critical theory, environmental politics, political economy, media/cultural studies. Co-author of Organizing Nature (UTP 2023). My “semi-awkwardness is adorable” (ratemyprofessors.com)
Noah Eber-Schmid @profnoather.bsky.social Political theorist at Indiana University, Bloomington. Author of "Founding Fanatics: Extremism and the Formation of American Democracy" (Oxford 2025). American Political Thought | Democratic Theory | Extremism | Contemporary Political Theory
Cheryl Hall @cahall.bsky.social Environmental political theorist & social media introvert. Here to track the intertwined C Crises -- Climate, Covid, Conservation, Capitalism, ChatGPT...and all the rest.
Sid Simpson @sidsimpson.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇺🇸 | Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Sewanee | sidsimpson.com
aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social teaching feminist political theory at Oxford University & writing a history of manhood democracy through the lens sodomy
Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University at Albany.
Political theorist, critical theories of technology.
Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social assistant professor of political theory | wonder in modern political thought | nature stuff | kansan | views my own | often confused | he/him
Rob Goodman @robgoodman.bsky.social Political theorist at Toronto Metropolitan University. Author of Not Here and Words on Fire. Co-author of A Mind at Play and Rome's Last Citizen. Co-editor of Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric. In progress: Black Cicero: Race and American Oratory.
fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. https://linktr.ee/fredleept
Jason Kosnoski @jasonkosnoski.bsky.social Professor of Pol. Sci. UMich-Flint. Political Theory and Labor Studies. AFT 5671 member. Author "The Political Theory of Salvage" https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Political-Theory-of-Salvage. Opinions solely my own and do not reflect my institution.
Jennie Ikuta @jennieci.bsky.social assoc prof of political theory • moral psychology & democracy • 📚: ‘contesting conformity’ (oxford UP) • views my own, not my employer’s • reposts ≠ endorsements •
Natasha Saunders @negsaunders.bsky.social Lecturer in IR and Political Theory at University of St Andrews. Interested in: Migration | Rights | Borders | Digital Tech | Activism
When not working, I’m travelling, eating nice food, and being a mum to Chocolate Labrador Bonnie.
Ben Mueser @benwlm.bsky.social Teach @Harvard
Previously @EUI_EU / @Columbia
History of political thought on land, territory, and state formation. Into the Holy Roman Empire.
Randal Hendrickson @hendrickson.bsky.social Political Theory PhD, history of ideas sort, MS in Library and Info Science. Working out some stuff at "The Vapors.” Would love you to have a look.
https://thevapors.substack.com/
Stephanie Ahrens, PhD @sahrens.bsky.social Political theory and philosophy, democracy, trust, pop culture, cats, typos
Are you contingent faculty (adjuncts, lecturers, anyone not TT) at Columbia? Talk to me or visit https://cfcu-uaw.org.
Views my own, not reflective of my employer, etc.
Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social Political theorist. Worker in the "Realm of Concepts." Book accumulator. Ethical worrier. Teaching at Georgetown University since 2014.
Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social Professor: Political Theory & American Culture
Author: UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke) & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (Duke)
Next Books: “Every Man a Sovereign” and “Going Low”
Libby to my pals
Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social
Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie
David Temin @davidtemin.bsky.social associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan || book: REMAPPING SOVEREIGNTY (2023) || Currently writing: WAGES FOR EARTHWORK
Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social Teaches (law and society, political theory at SLAC in New England) and bakes. Occasionally writes on all things related to conservative movement.
Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social Political theory, the wild, the anarchic, also cats, corgis (the wild, the anarchic).
Tim Waligore @waligore.bsky.social Political theory professor. Interests: Indigenous sovereignty, global justice, Kant & modern political theory, reparations, climate justice. Reposts & links to stories =/= endorsements. Views not employer's. He/him.
Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Melvin Rogers @prorogers.bsky.social Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor
Political Science Department @ Brown University
Teaches Political Theory
Book: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (PUP)
Juliet Hooker @juliethooker.bsky.social Professor. Feminist. Books: Black Grief/White Grievance: the Politics of Loss | Theorizing Race in the Americas: Sarmiento, Douglass, Du Bois & Vasconcelos | Race and the Politics of Solidarity.
Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social political theory professor and aspiring luddite | increasingly irrational ultrarunner | AAUP-AFT 6741 | toward a new operation dixie for the higher ed labor movement
Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social Dad. Political Theorist. Writes on white nationalism, the far right, critical theory. Author: The Rage of Replacement (2024, UMN Press). Words at The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian.
David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social Political theorist at DePaul and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024). Essays in NY Times, Washington Post, Time, Bloomberg, etc. Jazz Guitar, New York Mets.
Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social Political Theorist. University of Virginia.
Mexicana de acá de este lado, como dice el corrido.
All opinions here are only mine
Nica Siegel @nicasiegel.bsky.social political theorist @ amherst college / exhaustion and the psychopolitics of transformation.
recent pod on Fanon's clinical writings: https://shorturl.at/oCKCs
Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @universitypress.cambridge.org
sandiptodasgupta.com
Jamie Mayerfeld @jmayerfeld.bsky.social political theorist, University of Washington, author of "The Promise of Human Rights," http://bit.ly/3ZQzYT3. Posts express personal views only.
jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social political theorist, assoc professor at Loyola Chicago. studying digital technologies, democratic practices, (software) architecture, & civic engagement. she/her
Adam Kunz @adamkunz.com Asst. Prof. of poli sci at UW-Eau Claire | PhD at UC Davis, JD at GWU Law | political theorist | cult watcher | apatheist | ex-Mormon | father | 13th-level warlock
www.adamkunz.com
https://www.uwec.edu/profiles/kunzas
https://www.lalichcenter.org/
Dr. Susan Liebell @drsusanliebell.bsky.social Political scientist writing on law, guns, originalism, and abortion. Born in Queens but now proud Jersey Girl. Co-host of New Books in Political Science Podcast
Repost and ❤️ ≠ endorsement -- I read from many points of view! She/Her.
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social Professeure Titulaire, Legal / Political Theory uOttawa GSPIA
Books:on Time & Politics (YaleUP);
on States of Emergency (CambridgeUP)
Co-Lead, British Academy Global Convening
Crisis, Constitutions, Elections, Apocalypse, Extremism
www.nomiclairelazar.com
John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social Dyslexic diabetic. Eclectic philosopher and political theorist. Art and cricket lover. Artisan kimchi maker. Recovering poet. Fortunate man. Interested in all things human (and some non-human). Apparently now meant to add FBA to all social media profiles.
Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social Political theorist (Univ. of Toronto). Toronto/NYC. Realism, liberalism, toleration, privilege and opportunity, Hume, political ethics—and politics, humo(u)r, puns. Also husband, dad, stepdad.
Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social Retired political scientist in NH & Boston who still scholars. Also making believe I'm a historian, farmer, cook, baker. I do love democracy, knowing stuff, looking at art, listening to music. Current research: history of higher education in the U.S.
Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science
Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies
University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social
https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
Nathan D @nrduford.bsky.social archaeologist of the deranged. writing about the frankfurt school. interested in heterosexuality, psychoanalysis, and politics. wrote Solidarity in Conflict (SUP 2022) assistant professor doing political theory at smith college.
Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social AP in political theory at University of Michigan working at the intersection of disability studies, feminist theory, and democratic theory. she/hers.
www.annheffernan.net
Melissa Schwartzberg @maschwar.bsky.social Princeton. Specialist in democratic theory. Supermajority rule skeptic before it was cool. Co-author of Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining (Harvard UP, 2024).
Tom Theuns @tomtheuns.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Political Theory & European Politics, Leiden Uni | Democracy | EU
private handle: views mine
Out now: PROTECTING DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE Hurst/OUP https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781911723745
Prev. UWC; Maastricht; Oxford; Sciences Po
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227
William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social Political theorist in Montreal, via Custer, Lubbock, New Underwood, Rapid City, Northfield, State College, and WashPa. Free Palestine.
Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
kennan @kennan.bsky.social Political theory &c. Emphasis on the &c.
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
The Blackstudies Podcast @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social Podcasted conversations on the past and future of Black Studies, hosted by our editorial collective - Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, Olivia Blucker, and John E. Drabinski. Follow via links at linktr.ee/blstpodcast. Contact us at blackstudiespodcast@gmail.com
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Modern Intellectual History @mihjournal.bsky.social A forum for historians of political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, the social and natural sciences, music, architecture, and the visual arts.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth!
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.