Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026).
https://glaucoschettini.com
Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social Literature Professor UVA | Novel, 19c-21c, theory, environmental humanities, art, biodiversity, extinction (views my own)
Cambridge 2027
Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social Professor at Michigan & Associate Director @umichstonecid.bsky.social
Sociologist studying crime victims and the politics of punishment in the U.S.; first book was an ethnography of urban development in Boston.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jeremylevine/
Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame
co-editor of Sociology of Education | co-I of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
mamax2 | Michigander | former PS teacher |
scholar of education, inequality, mass incarceration, and race
Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social Historical sociologist working on beer, food, cities, waterways, textiles. My book on hops in 19th century Wisconsin out in Fall 2026, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo271049878.html aka @sociologyofplants aka @historicalhops
Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social Prof @ UCSD
Wrote 'Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art museum’ 2020
Co-edited, Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair, 2025
Working on a new book "The Promise of Facts"
Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social Historian of Catholicism, Italy, and environments | Leverhulme ECR Fellow at Uni of Manchester | Reviews Editor at Journal of Religious History. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joshua-rushton/
Marc Mölders @mmoelders.bsky.social Sociologist (@JGU Mainz), trying to understand how problems & solutions travel in a differentiated society | football | music | books
Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com Sociologist | Computational Social Science | Culture and Cognition
www.dustinstoltz.com
Mapping Texts: www.textmapping.com
Mastodon: fediscience.org/@dustinstoltz
Will Kendall @willkend.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
Jonas Toubøl @touboel.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology, studying civil society, volunteering and protest. Editor of Acta Sociologica.
www.soc.ku.dk/jonastouboel
Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
Website: brad.bolman.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/bolman
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
History of Social Science @histsocialscience.bsky.social The official—and just-launched—journal of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), published by Penn Press: hss.pennpress.org
Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social Is watching you.
Political sociology x Computational social sciences @CrestSociology | @Polytechnique | @CNRS
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
@filippobarbera.bsky.social @filippobarbera.bsky.social
Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, religion, education, work 🏳️🌈
http://jonathancoley.com
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social Sociologist. Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès. Author of: By the Power Vested in Me (Columbia University Press, 2025). I study how experts participate in controversial political debates. Baltimore boy.
The Immanent Frame (SSRC) @immanentframe.bsky.social The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. It was founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program @religionssrc.bsky.social.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social Sociology prof @ Florida International University, senior research associate @ University of Johannesburg, author of Delivery as Dispossession (Oxford UP, 2022), editor of Spectre, deputy editor of City & Community
Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social Sociology sometimes. Fan and producer of small-batch, artisanal handcrafted research. Goal is to be the most boring poster on the internet. I can't believe I have to say this, but these views are mine alone.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Ruiyi Li @ruiyili.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher @ Duke Kunshan University
I use qualitative and quantitative methods to study transnational education, youth, elite, social mobility in China.
https://ruiyili.net ➡️teaching &learning/research update
Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology) @sociologylens.bsky.social Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus.
#Sociology #History
Published by WILEY.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bekir Düzcan (e.duzcan@uu.nl)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832580x
Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social Ethnographer. Sociologist. Studies gentrification, sexualities, gender, culture, and place.
Benjamin Rohr @benjaminrohr.bsky.social Political and historical sociologist
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern, Visiting Researcher at WZB Berlin
Culture, political sociology, NLP, social networks, computational social science
oscarstuhler.org
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- S Yacine C @sissinouc.bsky.social phd student in sociology @ princeton
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social Historian of mobility, space, and the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the early modern period, particularly Venice. Works at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
StModerna @stmoderna.bsky.social Bluesky account of Storia Moderna – www.stmoderna.it
An online hub for scholars, research, publications, and opportunities to explore and deepen your knowledge of the early modern period.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social Open archive of social science. Free. Academy owned. Posts by director Philip N. Cohen. Say it: so-SHAR-kive (soʊʃɑrkaɪv). Website: socarxiv.org. New papers post at: https://bsky.app/profile/socarxivbot.bsky.social
Giulia Giorgi (she/her) @giuliagiorgi26.bsky.social Researcher and professor at the University of Milan. Digital cultures, youth cultures, digital methods, visual research, memes.
Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien @ifswien.bsky.social Das Institut für Soziologie vereinigt die soziologische Forschung und Lehre an der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at
https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/
Newsletter-Anmeldung: https://tinyurl.com/58spas3f
@riccardoemilio.bsky.social @riccardoemilio.bsky.social
Pieter Vanden Broeck @pietervandenbroeck.bsky.social
Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social The official journal of @alphakappadelta.bsky.social, SI is committed to the exploration of the human condition in all of its social and cultural complexity!
Browse the latest issue: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1475682x/current
@kazepov.bsky.social @kazepov.bsky.social
Emily Erikson @emilyerikson.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Yale University.
Working on the social science of tragedy and tragedy of social life
Read here https://tragicsociety.substack.com/
Gisèle Sapiro @giselesapiro.bsky.social Sociologist, professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales and senior researcher at the CNRS (CESSP), member of Academia Europaea. Author of: The Sociology of Literature, French Writers' War. Forth. What is a World Author?
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.
Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
Hannah Wohl @hannahwohl.bsky.social Associate Prof of Sociology at UCSB. Author of Bound by Creativity. Ethnographer of culture, markets, platforms. Currently writing about the porn industry.
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
David Stark @davidcstark.bsky.social Economic sociologist at Columbia. STS. Co-editor in chief, Sociologica.
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
Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | 📚 MY TAX DOLLARS, PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | 🎧 WHEN THE WOLVES CAME
Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social Sociologist, postdoc @univienna, PhD Yale @yalesoc, PI at Horizon Project CIDAPE - Climate Inequality, Democratic Action and the Force of Political Emotions, ECH Uni Vienna, Deserved @ Columbia UP https://cup.columbia.edu/book/deserved/9780231209786
Dominik Želinský @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social sociologist @ViedAkademia | phd @EdinburghUni | názory pre @denniksme
Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Celeste McNamara @celestemcnamara.bsky.social Historian @ Dublin City University. Author of The Bishop’s Burden (Catholic UP). Currently working on the policing of illicit sexuality in 18th century Venice. For more see www.celestemcnamara.com.
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Amanda Madden @amandamadden.bsky.social Asst Prof of History/affiliate fac @chnm and GMU. Author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025). Co-PI of Mapping Violence in EM Italy and La Sfera. Rock climber, heavy metal enthusiast, KPop fan
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Dr. Heather Smith @digitalsoundscapes.bsky.social PhD in history @utoronto.ca | early modern festivals and military history |Sound Studies and DH | Singer | Coordinator, Digital Soundscapes Project @decimauot.bsky.social | She/her
Website: https://heathernsmith.com/
Hannah Johnston, PhD @norellehan.bsky.social Historian thinking about gender, sexuality, & labor in #earlymodern Italy. Researcher and writer for "Noble Blood" from iHeartMedia. Incurable gossip, dog park regular, proud union member (x2). they/she
linktr.ee/norellehan
Carrie Beneš @cebenes.bsky.social Medievalist, typography nerd, data wrangler, and occasional costume designer. Secret superpower = toasting the perfect marshmallow. Sfera Project co-PI. Would rather be in Rome.
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @barbarasplendor.bsky.social Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato.
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social Historian of medieval Italy; dad; cook; hockey fan, Michigander living in Iowa. Speaking solely for myself.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0656-9110
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
Leo van Snippenburg @leo.vansnippenburg.nl PhD candidate Radboud University | migrants and identity in early modern Livorno | 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 | https://vansnippenburg.nl
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Susan Dalton @susandalton.bsky.social Professeure d’histoire, Université de Montréal ; Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, Routledge, 2023 https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Mediation-and-Popular-Education-in-Venice-17601830/Dalton/p/book/9781032190969
Lars Döpking @larsdoepking.bsky.social Historical Sociology | Taxation & Capitalism in Western Europe | Sociological Theory | Italy since 1945 | WiMi @dhiroma.bsky.social | HP:
http://dhi-roma.it/index.php?id=doepking
Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social Independent Scholar/Medieval Francophonie & Italian Historiographies. http://digitalhumanitiesddp.com, http://tcf.lauramorreale.com, http://dalme.org.
Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social Asst. Prof @ Kutztown, Art History | Mixed bag Medievalist obsessed w/Matilda of Canossa, video games, virtual reality & 3D models. PhD @ UofYork 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (They/Them)
Jessica Minieri @jessicaminieri.bsky.social PhD candidate Binghamton University • Editor @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social • News Editor, @memorients.bsky.social • Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world.
https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
H-Sicily on H-Net @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social H-Sicily is a network focused on the history of southern Italy-from the islands to the mainland-from late antiquity to early modernity.
Find us on H-Net: https://networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
(Dr.) Diana Henderson @dianahenderson.bsky.social Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
Jake Dyble @jakedyble.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher in Padua 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 Early modern commercial law, capitalism, slavery
Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social Postdoc @ Notre Dame Rome
PhD University of Notre Dame |
Social & Cultural Historian of Early Modern Italy | writing about the Florentine countryside, historical memory, identity, & state-building
Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social Art and architectural historian of renaissance Italy at Leiden University. Also in possession of a law degree
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Guillaume Calafat @gcalafat.bsky.social Historian, early modern period, Mediterranean shipwrecks
Associate Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHMC)
Institut Universitaire de France (Junior Member)
Editor of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (@annales.ehess.fr)
Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Giampaolo Salice @gsalice.bsky.social Professore di Storia Moderna | Diaspora e colonizzazioni | Digital and Public History | Direttore del Centro per le Digital Humanities alla Università di Cagliari | consiglio direttivo della Associatione Italiana di Public History (AIPH)
Peter @pemorel.bsky.social Bibliothécaire @labnf.bsky.social • Médiéviste & moderniste • Condottières, Colleoni, Italie(s) & Renaissance(s) 🇮🇹⚔ • Secrétaire @assomnemosyne.bsky.social • Parfois au micro de @cc2s.bsky.social 🎙️ • il/lui • 🏳️🌈 • 🌻🦊
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/