Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social.
More at https://www.pepysdiary.com
Daily emails at buttondown.com/pepysdiary
Support at https://ko-fi.com/pepysdiary
Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social Professor of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social Conservationist, activist, writer and researcher, rebelling against extinction
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
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Medievalist, environmental historian, penguin historian. Incoming editor of Environmental History. Author of Medieval Riverscapes, Negotiating the Landscape, and Water in World History. EFArnold.com
Penguin (even when you struggle you're still a penguin)
Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
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
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
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
Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social Ancient Historian @ UC Berkeley • 🇪🇦 • politics | sports | electronic music • He/Him
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
Erica Buchberger @ericabuchberger.bsky.social History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. https://www.ericabuchberger.com/
L. Renato Grigoli, PhD @lrpsnaps.bsky.social Medievalist, Legal Historian, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://lrphotography.art/
Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social Medieval History / Fordham University / editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion / Canadian / chaotic good
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.
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
Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Ancient History at UMass Lowell. Research: Roman merchants, ancient numismatics, greed, stereotypes. Self: embroidery, tea, long walks, and ice hockey.
Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
Evan Schultheis @evanschultheis.bsky.social M.A. History, Winthrop University. B.S. Chemistry. Specializing in Late Roman and Byzantine Military Archaeology, Culture, and History. Author, "The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, A.D. 451." Reenactor. Views are my own. #ActuallyAutistic
Lucy Grig @lucygrig.bsky.social Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
Linda Gosner @lgosner.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist (Spain, Portugal, Sardinia).
Otávio Luiz • 奥塔维奥 @profotavio.bsky.social Professor de História da África na Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Coordenador do Grupo de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos (GEAFRAS).
Mirela Ivanova @mirela.bsky.social Lecturer in History. Pre-modern Balkans, Russia, Turkey. BBC New Generation Thinker. Social climber🎓. Rock climber 🧗. Loves context. 
Damián Fernández @historiantillo.bsky.social Opinions my own, though they probably reflect the deep structures and contradictions of late capitalism.
Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social Roman and Byzantine Archaeology from Athens GA.
Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social Medievalist and Digital Humanist at @leedsims.bsky.social doing @manuscriptsetc.bsky.social. Co-founder of @kismetpress.bsky.social. Director of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Was at KU Libraries (KS, USA) & Arnamagnæan Insitute (Denmark). nkyavuz.com
Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social Archaeology, History, Hagiography, Folklore & Landscapes of Early Irish Christianity & Early Medieval Ireland. Includes thinly veiled but good-natured irreverence, outrageous puns and irregular posts.
Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira @jcmo77.bsky.social Professor, historiador, mineiro e corinthiano 
Matt Chalmers @mjchalmers.bsky.social Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity. British Academy Postdoc at University of Liverpool. Hispanophile, Leodensian.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/david-addison
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages at the University of Warsaw, chair of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations. Interested in relics, clerics, saints, demons, thieves, and divination. 
Catherine-Rose Hailstone @caterose.bsky.social Historian of late antiquity and Gregory of Tours at Durham University. Currently working on a Leverhulme Trust project on Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in Late Antique Churches. 
Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social Digital historian, medieval & late antique historian, educational researcher, occasional coder, nerd of many flavors. Views my own.
Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
Joshua Schachterle @jschac.bsky.social
Currently an independent scholar, hopefully a future professor of Early Christianity. Researching monasticism & asceticism. Dad. Punk rocker.
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🏃♂️✅
Paulo Pachá @pacha.bsky.social Professor de História Medieval na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University
Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social
Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social Historian of the Early Middle Ages based in York.
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social Patristics, texts & transmissions, ancient history.
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog
Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com she/they🏳️🌈| author & editor | Egypt: Coptic Studies (martyrology, music); Egyptology (TIP, AE religion) | Indigenous (reconnecting Haudenosaunee & Métis) | Haiti/Vodou | tech & its (mis)use | religion | RS≠endorsement | linktree/tamarasiuda | patreon/tsiuda
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Daniel Hansen @danrhan.bsky.social (they/he) PhD candidate in anthropology @ the University of Chicago. Picts, "heritage," identity, early medieval Scotland.
Otherwise: motorsport, baseball, mandolin, and birds. All views my own.
Website: danrhan.com
Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social Environmental historian of first-millennium Britain/Ireland and Merovingian Gaul.
PhD Candidate at Georgetown researching infectious disease, rebel nuns, and disaster.
Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night.
rachelbsinger.com
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Dr. Angela Costello @zostepatrikia.bsky.social Dress and Textile Historian/Archaeologist @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Florida woman. she/her- A Averil Cameron @averilcam.bsky.social Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
Silvia Holm @silviaholm.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Rostock, working on late Roman imperial succession, interested in Greek & Roman Epigraphy 
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).
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
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.
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/
Ella Kirsh @ellakirsh.bsky.social Stenography and social history in Late Antiquity. Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge.
Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Warsaw working on fourth-century Antioch. PhD on the sons of Constantine and church politics from Exeter. 🇦🇺 in 🇵🇱 She/her.
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social Prof @ Providence College and lifelong resident of #RhodeIsland (more or less)
#Sabbaticaling
#EarlyChristianity
#Photography
#VirtualTravel
#SartorialTheology
#Interfaith
#Covid
Posts about ma figghia (that's Sicilian), my toddler daughter, too!
Bailey Freeburn @baileyafreeburn.bsky.social PhD student at Brown. Thinking about late antiquity, sexuality, trauma. Chronically tired, perpetually annoying. she/her.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Erin Galgay Walsh @eringwalsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
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
International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social Bridging Disciplines • Supporting Scholarship • Connecting the Public at catacombsociety.org.
CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway.
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
Christian Schweizer @cgschweizer.bsky.social Medieval historian and Latinist, specialised on the Irish and Carolingian scholar Dicuil, now editing and translating early medieval formularies of letters and charters @formlitchart.bsky.social
Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social Teacher, Latinist, Thought Follower. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
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).
SCORE @rebellionuhh.bsky.social Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Antonio Vargas 🏳️🌈 @philoantonio.bsky.social Philosophy courses:
antoniofilosofo.com
Astrology:
antoniofilosofo.com/astrologia
He/him/his 🏳️🌈
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social ERC CoG 2025 (claim.univie.ac.at) | FWF START Award 2024 (GenAut.univie.ac.at) | Co-host of @tetraseminar.bsky.social (TeTra.univie.ac.at) | Co-editor RBECS.org | Bits and bobs, manuscript studies, and the reception of EC literature. In Vienna.
Geschichte und Gegenwart Alteuropas @gga-hagen.bsky.social Geschichte der Vormoderne an der FernUniversität in Hagen — Von der Antike über das Mittelalter in die Frühe Neuzeit.
Neben Werbung in eigener Sache Literaturneuerscheinungen und Veranstaltungshinweise für unsere Studierenden
Frontière·s | Antiquité-Moyen Âge @frontiere-s.bsky.social Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’art. Un espace de réflexion en Open Access sur les sociétés antiques et médiévales
Journal of Archaeology, History & Art History. An Open Access space to reflect on ancient and medieval societies
Mike Motia @mikemotia.bsky.social Classics and Religious Studies at UMass Boston. Podcasts on Late Antiquity. 
Francesco Rotiroti @rotiroti.bsky.social Legal Scholar, Historian, Classicist – Legal Theory & History, Antiquity & Early Middle Ages, Classics, Early Christianity, Video Games – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Rotiroti
Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social Making Texas higher education great again. Classics/late antiquity/early Christianity. Sports ball fan.
Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social Historical theologian of early Christianity at Gordon College. Lover of all things ancient and all things geeky. Co-author: Christian Women in the Patristic World. Co-host of OnScript podcast.
Alberto Rigolio @albertorigolio.bsky.social Professor, Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
Marion Pragt @worldlyscribe.bsky.social Syriac, late antiquity, manuscripts, sheep and tea.
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social Historian of the late ancient world: Sasanian Iran, the Caucasus, and the Eastern Roman Empire. Professor at William Paterson University. I like cats, photography, and sweet cabbage pierogi.
Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
British Academy International Fellow (2024-2027)
Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools.
https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Joop van Waarden @wardenj.eurosky.social Research Fellow in Latin at Radboud University Nijmegen. Specializing in Late Antiquity, in particular Sidonius Apollinaris. Website https://sidonapol.org
Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.
Rev. Dr. Jesse Ophoff @jbophoff.bsky.social Studies #lateantiquity #earlychristianity and #earlymedieval stuff. Small town America pastor with the UCC. Also into fantasy, sci-fi, role play, and the wilderness. he/him/his
Yitz Landes @yitzl.bsky.social Book History, medieval Hebrew manuscripts, TV, and the New York Knickerbockers
Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
Roma Medieval / Pablo Díaz @romamedieval.bsky.social ROMA: Historia 📖 | Arte 🖌| Arqueología ⛏ | Arquitectura 🏛
Pablo Díaz Gutiérrez 👨🏻💻
Archaeologist 🏛 Ph.D. at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology 🇮🇹 🇻🇦 | Rome/Vatican City
Noah Blan @noahwblan.bsky.social historian. teacher. friend to all cats. anti-fascist. space dust for your fuel rods.