Guillermina Altomonte @ghaltomo.bsky.social Sociologist at NYU writing about aging, health care, culture, and markets.
Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social Film scholar @ UT-Austin & exec director UTNY + UTLA | ‘26 Guggenheim fellow | books on ‘Casablanca’ + ‘Some Like It Hot’ (W.W. Norton + Faber), ed. Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton) | bylines: NYT, TNR, NYR, et al. | views = mine www.noahisenberg.com
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social Historian (Avengers of the New World/ The Banjo/ The Language of the Game/ Freedom Roots) & Musician (Traversées)
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Nan Feng @nanfengnf.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher@IPK, NYU
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Patrick Sharkey @patricksharkey.bsky.social social scientist studying violence and urban inequality in the US
Reece Peck @reecepeck.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @ The Cuny Grad Center & College of Staten Island. Author of Fox Populism (Cambridge, 2019). Populist rhetoric/partisan media/class politics. The Hill, Vice, Salon, Jacobin.
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social Prof in New York, studies broken media, capitalism and anti-colonial futures.
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Organizing with https://higheredlaborunited.org
John Jost @johnjost.bsky.social Author, teacher. Social, personality, political psychologist. Father, partner, mentor, & friend. Art, music, literature, movie, sports lover.
Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social asst prof of history at temple // they/them
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
Andrew Needham @andrewneedham.bsky.social Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
Kimberley Johnson @kimberleynyc.bsky.social Political Scientist doing American political development, urban studies & Maps. Last chopper out of twitter-land
@dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bard. Under contract with UChicago Press for "The Menace of Prosperity." Economic history. http://Publicspaced.com https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo247855479.html - www.publicspaced.com
wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
NYU. Hesitant Sociologist. Black tings. A Dream Dissolved (One Signal)
Maria E. Montoya @memontoya.bsky.social Historian of the American West. Lead Author of Global Americans. Associate Professor of History at NYU.
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social professor of media, culture, and communication. editor, public culture. organizer, oikos working group on kinship/economy. enthusiast.
(@fstflofscholars over yonder)
Rebuild by Design @rebuildbydesign.bsky.social Rebuild is reimagining the way communities find solutions for today’s large-scale, complex problems through collaborative research and design-driven processes.
Visit us: rebuildbydesign.org
Syrus Solo Jin, PhD @syrussolojin.bsky.social Elihu Rose Scholar @ New York University. UChicago PhD.
I research transnational military networks, war, and America in the world, 20th and 21st centuries.
Book on US military-building in Asia forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press.
Amy Zhang @azshutter.bsky.social Garbage enthusiast interested in contemporary China, environment, theory and cities. faculty
@nyuniversity
Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Sociology & Inaugural Richard Lachmann Chair, CUNY Queens College. Formerly NYU (PhD), Harvard (postdoc). Sociologist of race, citizenship, fascism, AI.
www.skarpelis.com, she / her
Albert Samaha @samaha.bsky.social journalist & author of “Concepcion” & “Never Ran, Never Will” / albertcsamaha@gmail.com / https://samaha.substack.com/
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Debi Cornwall @debicornwall.bsky.social Multimedia documentary artist using still and moving images to examine the fictions fueling America’s idea of itself. Former investigator & civil-rights lawyer. Model Citizens (Radius Books, 2024). This is (Not) a Drill.
www.debicornwall.
Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Communication, Journalism and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stony Brook University. Author of, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" -- out now via Princeton University Press.
Raka Sen @rakasen.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Sociology @ASU. Studying climate change adaptation in the Sundarbans. Abolitionist.
Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social urban studies prof at NYU. Currently studying migrant popular economies of housing and labor in NYC
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
Mike Koncewicz @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social Political Historian of the 1960s and 1970s, Associate Director of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (@ipk.bsky.social), Author of They Said No to Nixon and Tom Hayden Biography (forthcoming).