Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com A scholarly project focused on Tolkien from a corpus linguistic and digital humanities perspective. Posts by James Tauber (@jtauber.com)
https://digitaltolkien.com/
Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
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/
Project: Artemis @projectartemis.bsky.social Welcome to Project: Artemis. A new face in the Pokémon competitive scene.
https://linktr.ee/projectartemis
Pokémon TCG Live @pokemontcglive.bsky.social Battle, collect, and experience the fun of the Pokémon Trading Card Game anytime, anywhere with #PokemonTCGLive!
Play now on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac.
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James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social I blog about premodern history, religions and myth, languages and literature, and gender and sexuality. BA history and classical studies @IUBloomington, MA @BrandeisCLAS, she/her.
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
James Maurice Morgan @lifeandtext.bsky.social Lecturer & researcher at Uni Fribourg in historiography, exegesis, and narratology. YouTube: @jamesmorgan_lifeandtext - Open Access book: https://www.schwabe.ch/produkt/james-m-morgan-perceptions-of-the-divine-in-greek-historiography-9783796554964-t-19803
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Brent Landau @brentlandau.bsky.social Professional scholar of religion. Extremely amateur astronomer.
Tazuko van Berkel @doctaz.bsky.social Proud eclecticist and mother of Mathilde (21) and Sarah (5). PI NWO Vidi-project on Ancient Greek Economic Reflection; Universiteit Leiden; LUCAS; member De Jonge Akademie;
SSHRC | CRSH @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
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josephkimmel.bsky.social @josephkimmel.bsky.social Scholar of early Christianity and comparative theology | Harvard PhD 2023 | Completing a monograph for OUP on comparative demonologies | Adjunct Professor at Boston College | Assistant Rector at St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church (Lincoln, MA)
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies @csbssceb.bsky.social The CSBS is the oldest humanities academic society in Canada. The Society provides a meeting place for those interested in all aspects of the academic study of the Bible—Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, New Testament—in its literary and historical context.
Nate Kreider @natekreider.bsky.social Hebrew Bible and LXX, Greek Language and Linguistics, Papyri. Incoming PhD student at McGill.
Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project site: invisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social Historian of ancient Egypt & papyrologist | games researcher (analogue + digital) | Manchester Met Uni | Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre | Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society | Les Mills instructor | Blood Bowl enthusiast
@jackiemurr.bsky.social @jackiemurr.bsky.social
Andy Hilkens @andyhilkens.bsky.social Historian & philologist. Syro-Armenian studies.
Lecturer in Coptic & Postdoc Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters (UniVie)
Co-host @tetraseminar.bsky.social
Co-editor Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact (Brepols)
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social Seminar hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (UGent), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven, @worldlyscribe.bsky.social), Andy Hilkens (UniVie, @andyhilkens.bsky.social), and Dan Batovici (UniVie, @danbatovici.bsky.social). Website: TeTra.univie.ac.at.
Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world
Arthur H Dadian and Ara Otztemel Assoc Prof in Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts; southern transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer.
War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social 🌹 Comics by Elizabeth Pich & Jonathan Kunz 🌹
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone Authoress. Books: RINGMASTER (NYT bestseller), TRUE BELIEVER (Hugo finalist), and @beckbook.com (out Oct. 6). Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net.
"Bad John Cage is Real John Cage!" --Nam June Paik
Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker|Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)|Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social archaeologist, at the moment studying volcanic tuff as a building material but interested in all old trash
ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ
he/him
Pisa (but bury me beside the Piramide)
🥖🌹
Huttonite Uniformitarian
simultaneously more and less fun than profile suggests
Alessandra Giliberto @agiliberto.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor at @degruyter_brill | Biblical Studies | She/Her
✉️alessandra.giliberto@degruyterbrill.com | Opinions are my own.
Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social A hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Ex Sociology adjunct turned Accounting nerd. North of Boston, near witches. Born into a 321 PPM world. He/Him. Enjoy every sandwich. Aurë entuluva.
Nicolaus De Missuria @deromaaliisque.bsky.social Classics and soccer. Product of public education. Faded ginger.
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University | Co-artistic director of Theatre of the @GentleFuries | researching Athenian forensic oratory & theatrical receptions of myth | she/her | catposting
Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social Ancient historian. Associate professor at the College of the Holy Cross. "Voluntas Militum" (Zaragoza, 2023). he/him
Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social Husband, Father, Phd Student Classics at the University of Texas in Austin (he/him)
Deborah Hill @hillde664.bsky.social PhD candidate in NT at the University of Vienna. 🇦🇹Episcopal minister. Love my family comprised of two humans and one chihuahua mix with a lot of snuggles and personality. 🐕
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social Pod Only Knows: https://bit.ly/447CUOH
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social Professor of religious studies, Musician, Curator, and other stuff. Mostly here to talk about records.
Academics: https://danielwyche.weebly.com/
Arts: www.wyche.org
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Sam Johnson @samuelbjohnson.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies | Dean of the School of Theology | Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology | PhD University of Notre Dame
Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Free, open-access resources for teaching and learning about real people in the ancient world #PeoplingPodcast #PeoplingVideos #PeoplingBlog
peoplingthepast.com
The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️
📘‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ is out now! https://linktr.ee/ThePartialHistorians
Arabic Proverbs @arabicproverbs.bsky.social Currently reading Recent Proverbs (الأمثال المولدة), Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Khwārazmī (d. 993), ed. Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Aʿrajī
by Nathaniel Miller (PhD Arabic Literature), author of The Emergence of Arabic Poetry (Penn Press, 2024).
Amber Bowen @amberbowen.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy @RedeemerUniv • 23-24 Faculty Research Fellow at Notre Dame’s Center for Phil of Religion
Dr. Abby Kulisz @abbykulisz.bsky.social
A. v. Stockhausen @vonstockhausen.org Director of “Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike” at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and editor of “Patristic Text Archive” (PTA).
Ancient Christianity, Patristics, Digital Classics.
Ed Creedy @edcreedy.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR Fellow in Theology at Durham.
PhD in Classics from KCL. Interested in early Christianity, theatre and performance in the Greco-Roman world.
Blake Hartung @bahartung.bsky.social Teaching Professor, Arizona State University
When I have time, I research and write on late antiquity, early Christianity, Syriac literature, and the Mandaeans
My book: https://brill.com/display/title/68207?language=en
Madalina Toca @madalinatoca.bsky.social Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
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.
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
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/
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @unibonn.bsky.social
Exploring what happens when empires die.
Publications available at http://jmharland.hcommons.org
https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/altegeschichte/personen/james-harland
L. Renato Grigoli, PhD @lrpsnaps.bsky.social Medievalist, Legal Historian, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://lrphotography.art/
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
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social Medieval historian @Uni-Bonn 🎓@degruyterbrill, @WissenVerbindet & @OxUniPress monographs 💡Western Europe, Byzantium, mobility, military, digital humanities ✐Heisenberg (DFG)
Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @glasgow.ac.uk. Writes on the medieval Roman Empire, Britain, and everything in between.
Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social Medievalist at Heidelberg University.
'We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love.' - J. R. R. Tolkien (1943)
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
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
Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social Recovering academic who just can't seem to quit
Linda Gosner @lgosner.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist (Spain, Portugal, Sardinia).
International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. ICMS 2027: Thursday, May 13, through Saturday, May 15, 2027.
Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social historian of archaeology, recovering early medievalist, newly implanted Vancouver academic, immigrant and granddaughter of immigrants, she/her, views my own
Jesse Keskiaho @jkeskiah.bsky.social Early medieval historian and manuscript scholar, docent @helsinki.fi. Researching ideas about the soul, annotations to Augustine, dreams. He/him.
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).
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
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
Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social Historian / early medieval canon law / Radboud University / Utrecht
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. - Z Thomas Kohl @zezzo796.bsky.social Medieval Historian, University of Passau
Catherine-Rose Hailstone @caterose.bsky.social Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Early Medieval History at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Currently writing up her Leverhulme Trust monograph on Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in the Churches of Late Antique Gaul.
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
Paulo Pachá @pacha.bsky.social Professor de História Medieval na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
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
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
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
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