Geoff @aljawf.bsky.social Post mostly about the ways evangelicals appropriate God to justify Tradition and political activism.
"It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.” ― James Baldwin
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social Adviser for international affairs at the University of Bergen (UiB). Latin America, México & liberation theology aficionado. Strong supporter of free speech, academic freedom and a humane world! Opinions are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social ✨Vintage ✨millenial | daily updates on the war in Sudan | #KeepEyesOnSudan | linktr.ee/BSonblast
Hill Woward @convolutedname.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Trenchant Analysis in Wrong Rock Studies, Oak Table LLC. he/him
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) 🐢
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
UChicago Law Review @uchilrev.bsky.social The University of Chicago Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship edited by students of The University of Chicago Law School.
Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
meg bitchell @meganbitchell.bsky.social female actress, girl comedian
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results.
Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him.
Linktree.com/joekatz45.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Rick Garnett @rickgarnett.bsky.social Law professor/teacher at the University of Notre Dame. Failed alpinist, guitarist, and home brewer.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
@gillianmetzger.bsky.social @gillianmetzger.bsky.social
@bmrichardson.bsky.social @bmrichardson.bsky.social
Seth Endo @skendo1.bsky.social professor at Seattle University School of Law (primarily civil procedure and professional responsibility)
Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law @law.ucla.edu
Faculty Director of Prisoners’ Rights Clinic
Deputy Director of Behind Bars Data Project
Scholarship at ssrn.com/author=1925841
Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social Professor, Stanford Law School.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
Author, The Digital 4th Amendment:
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fourth-Amendment-Privacy-Policing/dp/0190627077/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law
Josh Macey @joshuamacey.bsky.social Law Professor at Yale. Energy, climate, finreg, bankruptcy, and regulation.
Monica Hakimi @monicahakimi.bsky.social Professor of International and U.S. Foreign Affairs Law, Columbia Law School.
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now.
Tanner Allread @tannerallread.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/tanner-allread/
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/)
Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton, Sep. 15, 2026) (readsupremacy.com)
Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social Legal historian. Recovering ironist.
Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law; Author of "The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries and the American Revolution" and "On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law"; www.carltonlarson.com
Nicholson Price @nicholson.bsky.social Law professor, food lover, sci fi & fantasy reader
Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM
@OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
David Tanenhaus @david-tanenhaus.bsky.social I was a one-Tweet wonder. I write about juvenile law, periodically re-read Nathan Hill’s The Nix, and help prepare meals that are vegan, gluten-free, and corn-free.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately.
https://ssrn.com/author=933550
Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Author of 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
Dr Amanda McVitty @dramandamcvitty.bsky.social Professional historian FRHistS | Social, cultural and legal histories of medieval Europe and modern Aotearoa New Zealand | Writing a book on colonial ghosts #UncannyCountry https://phanza.org.nz/historian/amanda-mcvitty/
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Medieval Murder Maps @medimurdermaps.bsky.social Medieval Murder Maps give insights into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.
medievalmurdermap.co.uk
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
Prof. B. (Tracey Billado-Lotson) @billadot.bsky.social Historian of 🇫🇷: C10th-12th Anjou; violence, customs, law, monks/nuns, lordship, unfreedom, charters. She/her.
Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Thomas McSweeney @mcsweeney1693.bsky.social Professor of Law @wmlawschool. Legal historian, medievalist, W&M alum. Writing about English law in the 13th century. Author of Priests of the Law (Oxford 2019), on the Bracton treatise and its authors. All views my own, not W&M's.
Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social Legal academic, PhD - researching EU Rule of law, the CJEU, EAW and judicial independence deficiencies, medieval, legal and Celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820.
Joanna McCunn @jhmccunn.bsky.social Legal historian, cake fan (she/her)
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
Sara Gwyn Beam @saragwynbeam.bsky.social Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at The Ohio State University | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://history.osu.edu/people/flannigan.15
Joshua Tate @jctate1215.bsky.social Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas. Interested in legal history and how it shapes the modern world. Usual caveats apply.
Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social #LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. Working on: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social Law Library Director and Associate Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law. Former medievalist, and fan of archaic information technologies. She/her/hers
Meghan Woolley, Ph.D. @meghanhwoolley.bsky.social Historian and writing instructor studying emotions and law in 12th and 13th-century England.
Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Private Law, Cambridge. Founding member Selden's Sister. Land law, medieval law, historical jurisprudence. AFHEA. She/her. Personal account.
Keith Ruiter @keithruiter.bsky.social Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
Liz Papp Kamali @lizpappkamali.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com- N Nicholas Karn @nicholaskarn.bsky.social Student of law, customs, charters and castles.
Peter L Larson @medievalhistorian.bsky.social Historian of England c. 1400-17??; law, society, economy, trade; Associate Dean & Prof. Fan of ice hockey, scotch, Warhammer, Battletech, & naps. He/him/his/ipse/eius/eum.
Views are my own, retweets are not endorsements, beware of sarcasm
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Sian Hibbert @sianhibbert.bsky.social PhD University of York: early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com
Sydney, Australia
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Dr Zack White @zwhitehistory.bsky.social Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide
Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society
Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity
Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Views my own
Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics & Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | VU Amsterdam (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch&English
Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist
Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad
Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social "A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social Rural jurist at the University of Colorado. All opinions yours.
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Blake Brown @rblakebrown.bsky.social History Professor at Saint Mary's University & Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law. Historian of Canadian law, gun control and medical malpractice. Profile: https://www.smu.ca/history/history-blake-brown.html
Katie Hemphill @kmhemphill.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality. 🌈 Opinions my own and not representative of my employer.
Francesco Rotiroti @rotiroti.bsky.social Legal Scholar, Historian, Classicist – Legal Theory & History, Antiquity & Early Middle Ages, Classics, Early Christianity, Video Games – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Rotiroti
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social Historian.
Ghost stories as historical method.
Public history theorist in the streets, archive critic in the sheets.
Expert at petting cats and responding to bruh.
Sometimes funny.
Amy Helen Bell @amyhelenbell.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder
Current projects:
Police Takeovers
Legalizing the Counterrevolution of Property
Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective
jonathonbooth.com
The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social Opening up Historic British Law and Legislation and digitally deforming it