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Phoebe Hayman @phoebehayman.bsky.social PhD candidate researching political participation in Australian independent election campaigns.
Joshua Black @joshuablackjb.bsky.social Views are my own
Rhonda Evans @rhondaevans.bsky.social Coal miner's daughter, dog lover, and director of a Center for Australian & New Zealand Studies at UT Austin. I research courts, human rights, critical minerals, environmental policy — and the global spread of Aussie cafés. ☕ https://aussiecafesabroad.com/
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social #envhist PhD @ UON living on unceded Ngadjuri Country, SA. Researching citrus worlds in the Riverland (SA) 1950s & 1960s. #deathlycapital #envhums Artist in my spare time (ha!), sessional academic, and programs @ HCNSW.🏳️🌈 she/her
abettertax.com.au @abettertax.bsky.social An Aussie trying to convince our politicians to model a simpler & more effective tax for Australia, invented by a mining engineer & two chartered accountants back in the 80s after hearing about the National Party's 15% flat tax idea. #abtax
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Matt Liddy @mattliddy.bsky.social Editor, ABC News Story Lab.
http://abc.net.au/news/interactives
Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social Migrant queer non-binary academic living on unceded Kulin lands.
Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
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Settler Colonialisms / British Empire @scbenetwork.bsky.social A UK-based research network, workshop series and conference for the study of British settler colonialisms, 'at home' and abroad.
https://www.scbenetwork.co.uk/
Ana Rosa Marginson @historiana.bsky.social Filipino-Aussie historian of public health, medicine, decolonisation in the Philippines • PhD candidate at Deakin • The Mayday Podcast co-host • Horror fan, ex-bookseller, writing things! • it's 'Ana Rosa' ✨ https://linktr.ee/historianarosa
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Public Record Office Victoria @vicarchives.bsky.social Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is the #archive of the State Government of Victoria, Australia. We hold records from the mid-1830s to today. Visit our website at prov.vic.gov.au
Tom Marshall-Davis @tommarshalldavis.bsky.social PhD candidate, Monash University. Works on Australian political culture (I write junk about the Liberal Party). World expert on Brendan Nelson I guess.
Geoff Barker @spritebark.bsky.social Add in equal parts - History, Photography, Music, Wikis - digitise - then serve chilled. Library/Museum Curator. Works @ State Library NSW. Shared views mine own. https://geoffbarker.wordpress.com/ & Q64778919
Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social She/Her | Cultural History of the Internet in Australia | PhD Student Monash University | Outdated Tech Enthusiast 💾💿
Dominique Jones @dominiquedjones.bsky.social She/her | History PhD Candidate @ University of Melbourne | Researching the Yugoslav Diaspora(s) of Australia
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Josh A. Szymanski 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇱🇧🖤💛❤️ @jaszymanski.bsky.social Working/teaching on stolen land | Magan-Djin
(He / They) PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Queensland | Researching poststructuralist feminisms, heterosexism, and deconstructions of sex/gender.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9794-8129
Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas) @phavictas.bsky.social PHA (Vic & Tas) is a thriving, dynamic community of professional historians who communicate history in diverse ways.
Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social Professor of Global History at King’s College London.
Histories of development, non-elite politics, Australia & Asia. Books: ‘Saving the World?’ (CUP, 2021) & ‘Visiting the Neighbours’ (UNSW, 2014). Next: ‘The World vs the World Bank’
Bonnie Evans @bonnielevans.bsky.social Lecturer in Media Studies @ UQ. Movies, feminism, horror. Meanjin/Brisbane. Free 🇵🇸
Carmel Pascale @carmelpascale.bsky.social Cultural historian and Visiting Research Fellow at Adelaide Uni - 20th century Australian nationalism, settler colonialism, ideas of Britishness and imperialism, federation, commemoration.
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Nicole Townsend @townsend-nic.bsky.social Historian
Lecturer in War Studies, UNSW Canberra
Director, Second World War Research Group, Asia-Pacific
2026 David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellow, State Library of New South Wales
All views my own
Melanie Brand @melaniebrand.bsky.social Lecturer in Intelligence Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Associate Editor, Intelligence & National Security; JPICT. Historian interested in intelligence, analysis, warning, secrecy, accountability and espionage pop culture.
Stéphanie Sauget @ssauget.bsky.social Historienne, spécialiste du 19e siècle et des imaginaires spatiaux, université de Tours.
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | "Australian-adjacent person": Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
Chris Monnox @cmonnox.bsky.social Historian of elections and electioneering, particularly early 20th century. I'm based in Canberra and also do ACT politics.
Shota Hintsagty @hintsagty.bsky.social Interested in religion and nationalism, gender and queer politics, and media and democracy, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Doctoral researcher at Lund University. https://linktr.ee/hintsagty
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social ANU Press publishes scholarship across the disciplinary spectrum, with particular strengths in Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies and Knowledge, Asia and Pacific Studies, International Relations and Law.
Alexia Moncrieff @historynerdess.bsky.social Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
Eureka Henrich @eurekahenrich.bsky.social Historian interested in all things 'm' (migration, museums, memory, material culture, medicine) and a few others too. Currently writing a history of migration and health in postwar Australia. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-eureka-henrich
Australian Migration History Network @amigrationhn.bsky.social https://amigrationhn.wordpress.com/
jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Noah Riseman @noahriseman.bsky.social Australian-American historian who specialises in LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous histories. Author. Amateur ice hockey player. Hablo español. Views expressed are my own.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/nriseman/publications
Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social War, protest, psychiatry & trauma. Historian @Uni_Newcastle. Author: Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (UNSW Press, 2026). Deputy co-director, Centre for Society, Health and Care Research. Editor, Health & History. She/her.
Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social Aust aviation & captivity historian. 6th book Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au or Amazon) winner 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards. Reading, cats & cake. #IAmWriting (at last!)
Ruth Morgan @ruthamorgan.bsky.social #envhist | #envhum | #climhist | opinions my own | Raised on Noongar country 🏳️🌈 living & working on unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri country | ANU - http://bit.ly/3ITky85
Cassie Byrnes @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social Historian of reproductive rights, abortion, consent | lecturer at UQ | living and working on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands | she/her 📚
Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social 📖 Est. 1959
🖋 Based in the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
📍 On Ngunnawal/Ngambri land
https://adb.anu.edu.au
https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb
Srishti Guha @srishti-g.bsky.social Historian of visual culture | Aus-Ind colonial relations | Associate Lecturer @ University of Newcastle, Australia. she/her.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/srishti-guha#career
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science & medicine, STS, postcolonial stuff. Recent book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity 2024). Doing a sequel, Waste in Space. Also writing on disease ecologies & planetary health. Living on Wangal land
Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS.
Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.
Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social Canberra, South Coast, London.
Prof at Uni of Canberra.
Know the past, do the future better.
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/chris-wallace
Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social Researcher developer at #DeakinRDA | 1/2 of @TheRealRW | Critical university studies, research culture, academic identities | Creator #SadChairsOfAcademia and #TiredBagsOfMelbourne | tseenster.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-061X
A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social academia | the #humanities | popular culture | other whims. Literally wrote the book on #Eurovision & Australia. I teach politics, IR, and pop culture but still identify as cultural studies. Proud cat lady. Views are her own.
https://linktr.ee/jesscarniel
AustLit @austlit.bsky.social AustLit is a bio-bibliographical database of stories by Australians and about Australia.
https://www.austlit.edu.au/
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social Scholarship and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history, and literature. Published on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjau20
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social ~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)