Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com We are fighting to stop the ICE warehouse from opening in Washington County, Maryland. ⬛️🟨⬜️🟥
You’ve seen the news about Frederick. Now here’s your chance to make a difference —> https://linktr.ee/westernmdirc
Doug Kiel @dougkiel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Oneida Historian | Northwestern University | author of Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash (Yale University Press) 🐢
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Latin American and Caribbean History @UWMadison. ✍️The Lettered Barriada (DukeUP); Puerto Rico: A National History (PrincetonUP/Planeta); A Counter-Republic of Letters (under contract w/ DukeUP). 🇵🇷
💾: https://linktr.ee/jmelendezbadillo
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Cate Hodorowicz @catehodorowicz.bsky.social Editor @uncpress.bsky.social Bibliophile. Nature junkie. Food obsessed. Essayist.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Helen Jin Kim @helenjinkim.bsky.social Associate professor of American religious history at Emory | Author of Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire (OUP 2022) | Book interview: https://youtu.be/uDcAF3oJtTg?si=LiVT_sRwf74xOU-W
Mary E. Mendoza @mmendoza.bsky.social Historian, writer, dog person.
Daniel Castaneda @historydaniel.bsky.social PhD Candidate | UC Davis - Go Ags! | Political History | Latina/o/x Politics | California History
Ryan McMinds @rmcminds.bsky.social Quantitative Ecologist focused on salmon habitat at the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission | Former Assistant Professor studying Microbial Ecology / Evolutionary Biology / Bioinformatics | merdemicrobes.org | thecnidaegritty.org/iNatle/
Dr. Priscilla M. Martinez @drprismmartinez.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History @utsa, 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 borderlands scholar, oral & public historian, & digital humanist. Host & Producer of @ampidpod. Views my own.
Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. Historian of China and the U.S., specializing in global historical and digital methods.
American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Justin F Jackson, Ph.D. @justinfdjackson.bsky.social justinfjackson.com
Historian, author of The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines (UNC Press, 2025)
Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social Author of "Securing Borders, Securing Power" (Columbia UP, 2022) http://tinyurl.com/yeywvdaa Doing migration politics/policy research, currently @colmigproject.bsky.social. Political speechwriter of yore. Obscure academic in provincial England, AZ guy 🌵
Mike Innis-Jimenez @innisjimenez.bsky.social Latinx Historian, Professor of American Studies, co-editor of UNC Press' Latinx Histories book series
Latinx Histories Book Series (UNCP) @latinxhistories.bsky.social UNC Press’s Latinx Histories book series is premised on the view that understanding Latinx history is essential to a more complete and complex understanding of the history of the United States, the Americas, and the world.
Brianna Nofil @briannanofil.bsky.social history prof @williamandmary; THE MIGRANT'S JAIL: An American History of Mass Incarceration, out now from @PrincetonUPress
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691237015/the-migrants-jail
José Juan Pérez Meléndez @jjperdez.bsky.social Historian | Mobility Infrastructures | 19th-Century Worlds | Revolutions and Post-independences | Brazil
Gráinne McEvoy @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social Native of Newry | Interloper Hoosier | Assistant Director of Research Programs, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Notre Dame | Historian of U.S. immigration
OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute) @oieahc.bsky.social We support the scholars and scholarship of early America, broadly understood to mean the Atlantic World between roughly the 1480s and 1820. We publish the William and Mary Quarterly and a series of award-winning books as well as sponsor conferences & more.
Nicholas T. Pruitt @ntphistory.bsky.social Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
Connie Chiang @connieychiang.bsky.social History & Enviro Studies prof at Bowdoin College. Editor of Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories @uwapress.bsky.social
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Willie Mack @wmack3212.bsky.social Asst Prof Black Studies. Research on the carceral state, Black immigration, US history. Book under contract with UVA press on US/Haiti during the Cold War out 2026. Whoop whoop!
Amelia Frank-Vitale @ameliafv.bsky.social Assistant Prof @PrincetonAnthro @PrincetonSPIA
deportation/migration/violence/borders/police/asylum/honduras/mexico.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/leave-if-you-can/paper
Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics)
Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH
Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford and Jesus College
Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA.
Finishing book on Irish-American views on imperialism and anti-slavery 1840-1865
Lloyd Barba @elprofebarba.bsky.social Relig Prof at Amherst College | current research areas: immigration, Pentecostalism, Latino religion, sanctuary movt., & Cesar Chavez | Go Blue!
Hana Maruyama @hcmaruyama.bsky.social Asst Prof, History, Asian & Asian American Studies and Native American & Indigenous Studies at UConn. Researching WW2 Japanese Americans & US settler colonialism. Connoisseur of desserts, dog mom. My views≠my employer's
Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social PhD in History | Environmental and Indigenous History in the American West & Borderlands | The North Woods: An Environmental History (under contract w/ the University of Washington Press) | WI➡️MT➡️KS➡️MN
haydenlnelson.com
https://firearchive.omeka.net
Martin Rizzo-Martinez @rizzomartinez.bsky.social Professor of Film & Digital Media @ UCSC, historian, settler on Awaswas Ohlone lands, author http://tinyurl.com/3x538386, co-producer of podcast - Challenging Colonialism, https://rss.com/podcasts/challengingcolonialism/. Advocate for decolonization.
Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social Historian of Ireland and the Irish, at home and abroad. Currently working on a global history of Saint Patrick's Day.
*The Routledge History of Irish America* (2024)
*The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine* (2021)
Jennifer Chacón @jmchacon.bsky.social
janna elizabeth haider🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @jannaehaider.bsky.social PhD candidate: history of immigration and (de)naturalization law @ucsbhistory | MA @uwsouthasia | Black Lives Matter | Abolish ICE | Free Palestine | she/her
Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social Your neighborhood legal historian with a focus on constructions of race & antisemitism in US law. She/her (was @queenmab87 at the other place)
https://open.substack.com/pub/miabrett
No More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social humanitarian aid + solidarity in the Sonoran borderlands | against militarization and for the free movement of people | nomoredeaths.org
documenting death and disappearance at the border: thedisappearedreport.org elpasomigrantdeathdatabase.org
Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
Todd Miller @rolltodd.bsky.social It's the self-important fool that keeps the writer going.
Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social Desert rambler, writer, activist in the Arizona/Mexico borderlands @ Center for Biological Diversity
Ieva Jusionyte @ievajusionyte.bsky.social Anthropologist. Writer. Professor at Brown University. Author of THRESHOLD (2018) and EXIT WOUNDS (2024)
Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, sharing her own thoughts.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net
Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social Historian of Texas, the Southwest, and modern America. Books: Blood Oranges (2016), and You Will Never be One of Us (2022). Currently working on a history of the Texas farmworkers movement. Opinions my own.
Jenn | Reappropriate @reappropriate.bsky.social Asian American feminism and racial justice. Blogging since 2002. I like pangolins.
Janelle S Wong @janellewong.bsky.social Asian American Studies | political scientist, race, immigrants, surveys | @AAPIData; @PRRIpoll
Jimmy Sweet @jimmyskuya.bsky.social Unenrolled Lakota/Dakota (Sičháŋǧu, Bdewákhaŋthuŋwaŋ, k’a Iháŋkthuŋwaŋ). Associate Prof in American Studies, Rutgers-New Brunswick. Historian, Indigenous Studies.
Book: Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
Rebecca H. Hogue @rhhogue.bsky.social Writing about militarization, empire & environment in Oceania. She/they. Aloha ʻĀina.
Kevin Bruyneel @kbruyneel.bsky.social Professor (teacher/scholar/pain in neck) at Babson College.
Author of Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in US
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469665238/settler-memory/
Working on 'political theory of sports' book
Glen Sean Coulthard @gscoulthard.bsky.social Political Theory and Indigenous Politics prof at UBC. YK Dene with writers block in perpetuity.
Matt Hooley @citiless.bsky.social Colonialism Studies and Environmental Humanities at Dartmouth. Get *Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities* from DUP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/against-extraction
juliet nebolon @julietneb.bsky.social teacher &
author of settler militarism (duke 2024):
https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-nebolon-juliet-settler-militarism-world-war-ii-in-hawaii-and-the-making-of-us-empire?_pos=2&_sid=0602d2404&_ss=r
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
🌈 Erika Pérez @erikaperez22.bsky.social Historian of early CA, gender, sexuality, borderlands. L.A. native. Views my own, not my employer’s. NEH fellow, 2023-24, Huntington Library. ❤️ jigsaw puzzles, cross stitching, burlesque, comedy shows, deejays. Look for me on the dance floor! 🪩 🏳️🌈🖤
David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum.
https://tinyurl.com/4snsdvzf
Sarah Bruhn @sarahbruhn.bsky.social Studying immigration, families & education. Postdoc @ Penn. Writing two books. Raising three kiddos.
sarahbruhn.com
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Arturo Chang @arturochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Studying popular movements, nation-building, Indigenous politics, and race in the Americas.
https://www.arturochang.com/
Doris Morgan Rueda (she/her/ella) @dradorisita.bsky.social Legal historian, Colombiana artist, horror girlie ✌🏽
Current Law & History Fellow @ Stanford Law & Stanford Center for Law and History
Soon to be Assistant Professor of US Latiné History @ Appalachian State University
Katherine Massoth, PhD @kmassotphd.bsky.social Historian. Educator. Associate Professor @ the University of New Mexico. 📚🌵Chair of the Coalition for Western Women's History (CWWH). *Keeping House* coming soon from the David Weber Series at UNC Press.
Robert Chang @korematsuctr.bsky.social Professor of Law and Sylvia Mendez Presidential Chair for Civil Rights; founder and Executive Director, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at UC Irvine School of Law. Teacher, civil rights attorney, writer.
Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social Public Lands Forever. Fighting for all things wild across the West with my friends at the Center for Biological Diversity. Proud NPS alumni. Desert rat to the core.
John Mckiernan-Gonzalez @mckiernangonzalez.bsky.social Reader, teacher, parent, child, sibling, partner, mediocampista, runner, historian
Maria E. Montoya @memontoya.bsky.social Historian of the American West. Lead Author of Global Americans. Associate Professor of History at NYU.
Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social environmental humanities prof at U of Oregon | Environmental justice | Living with MBC (she/her)
Brian Behnken @historybrian.bsky.social History prof. Author of 'Borders of Violence and Justice' and 'Brown and Blue,' 2 books, 190 years of history on Mexican Americans and law enforcement. Keeper of bees. I like tacos.
Andrew Robichaud @andrewrobichaud.bsky.social Historian and Author of ANIMAL CITY / Working on a new history of ice in America / Associate Professor at BU / personal account
EricSchlereth.bsky.social @ericschlereth.bsky.social Historian of North America and the early United States. Author of a couple books, Quitting the Nation (https://bit.ly/3HS2Z8W) and An Age of Infidels (https://bit.ly/4br3EvT). Jacques Pépin super fan.
Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social Professor of Latinx/labor/food/migration history @ Columbia and Tejana living in NYC. Author of GROUNDS FOR DREAMING (2016) and AWAITING THEIR FEAST (2025).
Laura Briggs @ljbriggs.bsky.social Queer feminist historian of reproductive politics. Author of Taking Children. (they/them).
Jaime Sánchez, Jr., PhD @jaimesanchez.bsky.social Modern U.S. Political Historian
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Presidency, Parties, Race, and Identity Politics
jaimesanchezjr.com
Katherine Bynum Chávez @kbynumchavez.bsky.social Historian, runner, puzzler extraordinaire. Texan living in AZ.
Oral/public historian of the Black& Brown Freedom Struggles in Dallas.
Gabriel "Jack" Chin 趙健民 @jackchin.bsky.social Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair & Martin Luther King Jr. Prof. at UC Davis School of law. Immigration, Race and Law, Asian Americans and the Law, Criminal Law and Procedure--all the same. Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=20152
@jeaniob.bsky.social @jeaniob.bsky.social White Earth Ojibwe Citizen, Prof. U of Minnesota -- History and American Indian Studies.
Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social Historian: Citizens of a Stolen Land; More Than Freedom; Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Midlife dog convert. Inyalowda.
Sheila McManus (they/them)🍉 @nevermetafence.bsky.social Settler in Siksikaitsitapii territory. Bi NB borderlands historian. 🌈 Passionate about t&l in higher ed. Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🇵🇸🇮🇪 sheilamcmanus.com
Cortney Lollar @clollar.bsky.social Professor & Faculty Director, Center for Access to Justice, Georgia State University College of Law
Michael Jones-Correa @mjonescorrea.bsky.social Political scientist at UPenn: immigrants and politics, cities, and other things.
David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views my own. Substack @davidpalumboliu
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Jodi A Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social Chickasaw, Professor of Race, Diaspora, Indigeneity at U Chicago, author of Transit of Empire (Minnesota, 2011) and Indigenomicon (Duke, 2025)
Kate Morrissey, Journalist @bgirledukate.bsky.social Journalist covering the immigration beat at the San Diego-Tijuana border writing Beyond the Border newsletter on Substack. Co-founder of Daylight San Diego. Articles in Capital & Main, Voice of San Diego, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times...
A. Naomi Paik @naomipaik.bsky.social Author - *Bans, Walls, Raids, #Sanctuary* on #abolition and #migrant justice. *Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in US Prison Camps Since WWII* on #imprisonment regimes under US #empire. #freepalestine #borderabolition www.naomipaik.com
Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social Director, The Immigration Lab; & The Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; Full Professor, Sociology, American University, DC. Immigration and the politics of the possible. Author of multiple books & articles. Public scholar.
Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com Senior Reporter with the Tucson Sentinel covering politics, border & immigration issues, environment, etc.
“Who’s the guy with the beard that talks fast? He’s cool, he’s funny.”
Member NPPA, IRE, NAHJ, Arizona Press Club.
“Resist, much love”
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
Pablo Piccato @ppiccato.bsky.social Historian of Mexico, from poetry to crime. Recent books:
Historia mínima de la violencia en México; A History of Infamy: Crime Truth and Justice in Mexico.
Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Professor at NYU. Author most recently of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering.
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Sarah R. Meiners, PhD @srmeiners.bsky.social Assistant Professor at James Madison University // Historian of US refugee policy in the US empire, 1975 - present // also writing about unaccompanied minors at Guantánamo
Laura D. Gutiérrez @ldgutier.bsky.social Associate Professor and Chair, Dept of History, University of the Pacific. Historian of deportation to Mexico.
Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social Public historian, personal research interests: Reconstruction, borderlands history, and the military experiences of Black Americans. Views expressed here are my own.
Juan Ignacio Mora @juanmora.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History and Latino Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
https://uncpress.org/9781469693859/latinx-encounters/
Hannah Postel @hpostel.bsky.social Migration policy past & present. Public policy prof @dukesanford.bsky.social.
Previously: Stanford, Princeton, CGD, & Middlebury.
Spice fanatic 🌶️ cat mom 😻 she/her.
www.hannahpostel.com
LH🥑 @lucho-herran.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of Latin American History
David Cortez Manzano @profdavidcortez.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Political Science and Latin(x) Studies @ University of Notre Dame. My book, Broken Mirrors: Latino, La Migra, and the Conflict of Being Both is forthcoming @ OUP. Proud to have been born and raised in Brownsville, TX.
Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History
https://sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc
Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social I care about ideas doing work in the world
Professional humanist and book editing person
Seeking to enter by the narrow gate.
Religion | History | Indigeneity | Music | Sport
MN born NC by choice
Always #GDTBATH | #DurhamNC #BullCity
Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; https://www.jimdownsofficial.com