Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social Author | Professor
Global and Postcolonial History
Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins)
Delhi - Copenhagen
https://ravinderkaur.net/
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social Director of Creative Writing Program, Assoc Prof, University of Georgia l Translator of five books l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow l NEA Fellow l How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/arunikashyap/
Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He, they.
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/bakshi-sandeep-fr/
http://decolonizingsexualities.org
https://instagram.com/sandeep.bak/
Devika Dutt @devikadutt.bsky.social Political Economy, Finance, Development, and related things
Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org Research Prof at U Texas,, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" http://antsandgrasshopper.org, co-author "Inflamed", out now!
Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social Associate Professor, London School of Economics| Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow| Labour & Coop Party Councillor| Chair of Council & First Citizen, London Borough of Newham 25-26| He/They| https://linktr.ee/rohitkdasgupta
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI Nuffield; PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
Aditya Balasubramanian @abalasub.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at ANU School of History
Working on Roads
Book: Toward a Free Economy @princetonupress.bsky.social
Order: http://tinyurl.com/5andt77x (USA/UK) http://tinyurl.com/2p88pvmv (India)
Deborah Sutton @debssutton.bsky.social Teaches South Asian History at Lancaster University, UK. Currently working on deserts in India, especially soils, water and salination. Delhiphile and runner.
Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Kate Imy @kateimy.bsky.social Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab, WGF Veterans Writing Project, AFF screenwriting winner. Rutgers PhD, UT historian.
Prachi Deshpande @prarochana.bsky.social Historian @CSSSC. Author, Creative Pasts(2007); Scripts of Power(2023). Infosys Prize for Humanities 2020. Current obsessions spinning, weaving, growing food.
Narayani Basu @narayanibasu.bsky.social Historian of modern India | Research nerd | Author & biographer | Archive hound | Full-time chai lover
V.P.Menon: The Unsung Architect Of Modern India: https://amzn.eu/d/3Busqcz
Allegiance: Azaadi and the End of Empire: https://amzn.eu/d/41iQH4E
Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social Author / Associate Professor at LSE Human Rights & LSE Sociology / Co-Editor, Humanity Journal & LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press / Own Views / Rep: DGA Literary Agents
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/ayca-cubukcu
Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social @swatiatrest on Twitter. || Website: https://www.swatimoitra.net/ || Email: sm@swatimoitra.net
Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social Historian dabbling in Anthropology & Pol Sc.
Worked earlier as a journalist, editor, in social sector.
Areas of interest/ competence: Mountain Societies, State, Family, Colonialism, Marxism.
More here: https://hsrc.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/aniket.html
Meera Venkatachalam @meerakat.bsky.social South-South relations; Mobilities; Afro-Asia; India in Africa; Africans in India; West Africa; Voodoo/Vodun.
Third Worlder. Cat person.
Sohini Kar @karsohini.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Development | LSE | Economic Anthropologist
Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center Prof interested in class/caste/racial/spatial politics.
Sneha Annavarapu @snehaannavarapu.bsky.social I’m a sociologist and ethnographer interested in transport, urban infrastructure, and gender in South Asia. I host authors of cool new books on the New Books Network, and the co-founder of Ethnographic Marginalia.
Visit www.snehanna.com for more info.
Neeti Nair @neetinair.bsky.social Historian. Teacher. Lapsed dancer.
Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
Farina Mir @farinamir.bsky.social
Malini Sur @malinisur.bsky.social Director Graduate StudiesIIBook Prize @SouthAsiaAU. Bernard Cohn Prize (HM)@AASAsianStudies
JunglePassports (Penn 2021/Yoda 2023). Asso. Prof. Anthropology. Western Sydney University
https://researchers.westernsydney.edu.au/en/persons/malini-sur
Cheri @kuncheria.bsky.social @theindiaforum.bsky.social | JNU history alum | Tobacco, Agriculture, Commodities, Environment, Economic History | Hoomin to Bourbon and Baddy | Views personal.
Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social Historian, intersections of nature and empire in Southern Africa (esp. #Namibia); author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (open access);
Views my own;
Worried about planet;
#FckNZs
martinkalb.com
Meera | મીરાં @meerashar.bsky.social Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter ll
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki | Working on Caribbean Marxism, utopia, temporality, and political imagination
sayali 🇵🇸🍉 free falasteen @yappayali.bsky.social historian w/ interest in politics, political economy and foreign relations of 🇮🇳🇨🇳🇷🇺🇺🇸
king's college london alumni: history (ba)/global affairs (msc)
⚽️ aston villa, phoenix rising
Marine Guéguin @marinegueguin.bsky.social Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at Leeds Beckett Uni | PhD in Security Studies at Uni of Leeds |
Research Interests: Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Decolonial CT, France, Sahel | Co-host and co-creator of Insecure: A Security Podcast
Jonah Paul @jonahpaul.bsky.social CA State Worker | Comms | SEIU Local 1000 Member Leader
LSE Political Theory @lsepoltheory.bsky.social News from the LSE political theory group https://www.lse.ac.uk/government/research/research-groups/political-theory
Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
@allouryesterdays.bsky.social
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU @empiressdu.bsky.social Welcome to Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU - a research group at the University of Southern Denmark
#empiressdu
Erica Marat 🇺🇦 @ericamarat.bsky.social Professor. Opinions are my personal. Posting as a private citizen. Do not represent any institution or group.
Botakoz Kassymbekova @kassymbekova.bsky.social Professor of eastern European history, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Russian and Russo-Soviet colonialism, imperialism, stalinism, post-stalinism.
Ed Owens @edowens.bsky.social Royal historian, broadcaster & author of books on the British monarchy incl: "After Elizabeth" & "The Family Firm". TV/film incl: BBC, Ch4, CNN, Netflix
https://edowens.com/
https://www.northbanktalent.com/
Currently: education, IBDP & critical thinking
Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism. Writing a book on the history of water in southern Africa.
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zululand.
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.
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Ham House @OOCDTP | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India
Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Princeton PhD. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Book: https://www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Rethinking-Islamic-Modernism
Brian Drohan @briandrohan.bsky.social US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).
Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social Lecturer & History Teacher
PhD (History) graduate
Assistant Editor @jich.bsky.social
Co-Editor @NCC journal
https://yiannicartledge.wordpress.com/
Closet horticulturalist: https://yiannischilli.blogspot.com/
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Andrea Major @andreamajor.bsky.social Historian of C18 and C19 Britain, India and empire, esp. East India Company colonialism, sati, slavery and social reform. Views my own etc. She/her.
Luna Oi! @lunaoi.bsky.social Translator and documentarist focusing on Vietnam | Proudly bisexual Vietnamese communist | USA and UK Human Rights Watcher
Website: http://youtube.com/lunaoi
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
Brett Holman @airminded.org Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own.
Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
Dr Meg Foster @mfoster-history.bsky.social Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS).
Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country.
Programming: londonaustfilm.com
Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.social. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
Lydia Walker @lydiawalker.bsky.social Historian of global decolonization at Ohio State
Author of STATES-IN-WAITING
https://linktr.ee/lydia_walker
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
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.
Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Sara Cosemans @saracoos.bsky.social
Nick Ferns @nickferns.bsky.social DECRA fellow in history at Monash University. Working on histories of development and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Dr Vicky Nagy @drvnagy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Tasmania
Research interests: gender + history + crime, CSA prevention, SXA, VAW prevention. Cairn Terrier & cat aficionado. Horse mum.
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 🌵
Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, focusing on race, ethnicity, and migration histories. University of Warwick. Education Officer for History UK. I don't actually wear glasses anymore and look much more tired since having kids, I need a new photo. (he/him)
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain. Co-host of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour (on Spotify, Apple, & YouTube).
Dr Jatinder Mann 🏳️🌈 @drjatindermann.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at @uniofreading.bsky.social
https://reading.academia.edu/JatinderMann
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-8324
Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
Class - Culture - Environment
https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History, Smithsonian, and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
Preeti Dhillon @preetidhillon.bsky.social Researcher, writer, historian.
Author of The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the UK. https://geni.us/the-shoulders-we
Repped by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency.
(she/her)
preetidhillon.co.uk
Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Oleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, Comintern, Russia's War in Ukraine; professor at Western University and King's University College. www.oleksadrachewych.com
Imogen Wegman @imoweg.bsky.social Tea drinker. Cartophile. Lecturer in History at University of Tasmania. Currently writing a book about colonial land granting in Van Diemen's Land (lutruwita Tasmania) & crawling around archival rabbit holes. plotsandacres.wordpress.com
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.