Nahyan Fancy @fancynahyan.bsky.social Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry
Basic Books Group @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social Renowned publisher of serious nonfiction by leading intellectuals, scholars, and journalists. A division of Hachette.
Dumbarton Oaks @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social Humanities research center, gardens, and museum affiliated with @harvard.edu in Georgetown, DC.
Maggie Gram @maggiegram.bsky.social Designer & cultural historian. I work at Google and belong to the Alphabet Workers Union. Out June ‘25 from Basic Books, The Invention of Design:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/maggie-gram/the-invention-of-design/9781541600645
Leah Price @bookish.historians.social.ap.brid.gy This account has moved to @LeahPrice.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pratt Institute
Contributing Editor at The New Republic
Feed the People! (Basic Books 2026)
www.jandutkiewicz.com
Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS.
BSBI Shetland county recorder
Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press
Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
www.jondunn.com
Dr Anjana Khatwa @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social Earth Scientist, Writer, Presenter. 📗 #WhispersOfRock, 4 Sept Little Brown (UK), 4 Nov Basic Books (US). Own views. Likes ≠ Endorsement.
Agents: 📺 Knight Ayton Management 📚 C&W
Pre Order Whispers of Rock here:
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Daniel Medwed @danielmedwed.bsky.social Law Prof, Northeastern University; Board, New England Innocence Project; Author “Barred” (Hachette/Basic Books, 2022)
https://law.northeastern.edu/faculty/medwed/
Kait Howard @kaitehoward.bsky.social Publicity @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Formerly at Basic Books & Melville House
Eliot A. Cohen @eliotacohen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Rick Shenkman @rickshenkman.bsky.social Historian’s can’t predict the future. We can’t even agree on the past. Journalist & historian. Author of POLITICAL ANIMALS: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (Basic Books).
Marissa Koors @criticalkitten.bsky.social Literary Agent at Curious Minds Agency. Editor of books, video games, and TTRPGs. Cast Member at Manapot Studios. Formerly at Basic Books and Wiley-Blackwell. She/her.
https://marissakoors.com
https://curiousmindsagency.com/ 
Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social Author of "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History." Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution & Tax Policy Center.
William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social History Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Writing a book on the 1960s.
Last book a bio of Roy Benavidez: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-sturkey/the-ballad-of-roy-benavidez/9781541600263/?lens=basic-books
Max Perry Mueller @maxperrymueller.bsky.social Widower, father, writer.
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Cornel West @cornelwest.bsky.social One of America's most provocative public intellectuals; a champion for Truth, Justice & Love. Running as an Independent candidate for President
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Laura Locke Estes @lblestes.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Pepperdine | writes on Syriac Christian exegesis, early Islam, and construction of religious identity
Mehmetcan Akpınar, PhD @akpinarm.bsky.social PhD @UChicago || Specialist in Early and Medieval Islam || Tarihçi. İslam Tarihi Araştırmacısı || University of Chicago @UChiDivinity @NELC_UChicago
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
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.
www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social Berlin-themed history, culture and travel website. We are community funded—the only thing we sell is memberships: https://steadyhq.com/en/slowtravelberlin 
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Joe Blankholm @joeblankholm.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UC-Santa Barbara. Author of The Secular Paradox (NYU 2022). Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project. Book under contract with W. W. Norton.
People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2026, 2025 and 2024. 👍 See upcoming events and membership options here: https://wfr.bio/peoplesbook
@normanh1.bsky.social @normanh1.bsky.social 
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social How could she breathe in that house so crowded with Norma Desmond?
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
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
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social An online magazine & micropublisher. ALQ & Books: http://arablit.org/ * Reader-supported: http://patreon.com/arablit, http://arablit.gumroad.com * PACBI signatory
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…
Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
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.
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Zaynub Zaman @zzaman.bsky.social Researcher, Lecturer @ UoM. Editor of Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. Loves all things to do with the Pre-Raphaelites, 19thC, Dante, and Islamicate history. Views own. She/her.
Ana | اناه ارمَنداريز @anaastro.bsky.social Medieval Islamicate | Hellenistic Astrologer. Art Director and Type Designer. 🔗 https://bio.site/anaastro
Sahar Aziz @saharazizlaw.bsky.social Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School | Author of “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” | Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu) | Host, The Race and Rights Podcast | Views my own
Diana Coleman @drmurtaughcoleman.bsky.social Islamic Studies and Humanities Prof
Ana Miranda @alsmiranda.bsky.social Entre o Faroeste e o Ribatexas. Mãe de gatos.
Talha Ali @s-t-ali.bsky.social Bibliophile | History | Poetry | Data & Tech | Mancunian Londoner 🇵🇸
Sylvia Chan-Malik @schanmalik.bsky.social Mom, Professor, Writer. Author of "Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam" (NYU Press, 2018) & "A Part of Islam: A Journey through Muslim America" (Penguin Random House, forthcoming). Views only mine.
Clément Salah @clementsalah.bsky.social Social and Religious History of Islamic North Africa | Mālikism | Islamic Manuscripts
Krit:Arab Kritische Zugänge zur Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft @kritarab.bsky.social Wissenschafts-Blog für kritische Zugänge in der Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft mit einem interdisziplinären Ansatz.
https://kritarab.hypotheses.org
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at RUG | DPhil from Oxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia
https://islamicorigins.com
Conor Dube @conordube.bsky.social Research Fellow in North African Medieval History @uclarchaeology.bsky.social; postdoc with the MEDGREENREV project; philologist and historian working on the Islamic West. Rock climber in my spare time.
Lauren Onel @laurenonel.bsky.social PhD student in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity at Princeton 🐯
Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in late antique and medieval Armenia, Iran, and Syria
Kenyon 2020•Uchicago Div 2022•Princeton 202?
Leonie Böttiger @leonieboettiger.bsky.social PhD student at MPIWG Berlin researching premodern Arabic recipe collections related to crafts. Interested in languages, literature & translation. Managing Editor at ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
I write about my research at arabicrecipes.hypotheses.org
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
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.
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Hannah Parsons-Morgan @beathas-ailsa.bsky.social African & Islamic Archaeology. Art history. Anthropology. History.
Chinese ceramics in Ethiopia, East Africa & the Indian Ocean World.
BA (SOAS), MA (SRU, UEA), PhD (IAIS, UoE)
I enjoy yoga, cycling & weightlifting. 
Uzair Ibrahim 🍉 @uzairibrahim.bsky.social Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholar in Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter • Previously SOAS; Institute of Ismaili Studies; Habib University • South Asia, Islam, intellectual history, ghayb, time • ☕️🍪♿️
William Rees Hofmann @wrhofmann.bsky.social Research Associate, SASU, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Historian of music and poetry in Islam in South Asia / Sufi, Nizari Ismaili, and Shi'a devotional thought and practice
Working on a monograph: Amir Khusraw and Sufi Ecologies of Song (EUP)
Tulaib @tulaib.bsky.social PhDing in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard
Javi Albarrán 🍉 @jalbarran.bsky.social Loving husband, proud father and passionate historian of the Medieval Islamic West at the University of Granada. Living the Albayzin. Writing on the loss of al-Andalus, Crusades in al-Andalus, jihad, Andalusi Christians, Andalusi memory... Antifascist.
Václav Algirdas Zheng @vaclavzheng.bsky.social History PhD + Postdoc @Johns Hopkins | Early Modern East Central Europe, Czech and Polish, Global Renaissances, Utopia, History of the Future, World History, Historical Theory and Historiography| On the Job Market
Fuchsia Hart @fuchsiahart.com Curator for the Iranian Collection, V&A Museum
Mònica Colominas Aparicio @monicacolominas.bsky.social Distinguished Researcher, Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC-CCHS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid. Guest Researcher, University of Groningen.
Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social PD,U Kassel.Entangled history of Europe,India&the Middle East."German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill,2015)."A Taste for Purity."(NY:Columbia University Press,2024).
https://www.julia-hauser.de
Amrita Malhi @amritamalhi.bsky.social History & Politics Malaya/Malaysia/Malay World @HRC_anu, #CHASS @flinders & IPRC @Murdoch. Visiting Fellow, ISEAS-Yusuf Ishak Institute. Former Asia-Pacific Research & Evaluation Head in the Humanitarian & Development sector. Retweet/like not endorsement
Jake Benson @jwbenson.bsky.social Trained bookbinder, conservator, paper marbler, codicologist, and manuscript cataloguer, and Leiden Ph.D.
Maria Marsh @mariasolemarsh.bsky.social Middle Eastern & African studies, Publisher, Cambridge University Press. All views are mine.
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
José Bellver @jbellver.bsky.social Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
al-Andalus
Andalusi Sufism
Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
https://csic.academia.edu/JoseBellver
Will Sherman @willsherman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islamic Studies. Here again till Gilligan and Halligan call again to hooligan. Living under the Bluefunk Fires of the Dipper.
Isaac PM @ccbaxter1968.bsky.social He/Him, Middle East/modern Egyptian History, political economy, monetary history, PhD Student at UCSB, podcasts about film at http://politicsofcinema.libsyn.com
Rawda El Hajji @rawdaelhajji.bsky.social PhD candidate
Bibliotheca Arabica | Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
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
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at UW-Madison | Religious Studies | Researching language, identity, & Islamic media in East Africa
May all beings find peace.
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social Researcher @University of Vienna, PhD @VU Amsterdam
Syriac manuscripts, materiality, digital humanities
Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
Dr. Jeroen Harun Vlug @drjeroenharunvlug.bsky.social Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Islamic & Religious Studies
Ariana M @arianam.bsky.social Himalayan & South Asian material culture, Bhutan, Tibet, Buddhist art & ritual. Fulbright Scholar (2x) & NEH-Mellon Fellow. Also likes: digital humanities, open access, Pictured Rocks. lifeofthebuddha.org | bhutan.virginia.edu
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@spicysourdough on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
Like what I do? https://ko-fi.com/shabana
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/she. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social Historian of moo cows [I have it on good authority that this should be in my profile]. Clinging to academia.
Under contract: Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Abundance in Cold War America.
Views my own.
Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social Professor of astronomy 🔭 at Ohio State. Co-chair of @aascsma.bsky.social. Alum of UCSC and MIT. She/her 🇲🇽
kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
writing: kellypendergrast.com
working: antistaticpartners.com
Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
Egypt'sBeer @omardfoda.bsky.social Writer: Egypt, History, Beer
http://omar.foda.family
https://substack.com/@omardfoda