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Empire: World History @empirepoduk.bsky.social Podcast on empires and world history 🌎
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Cesare Figari Barberis @cesarebarberis.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at ISGA, Leiden University. My research focuses on Emotions, Stigma and Ideology in the Caucasus and in the European Union
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Katherine E. Young @katherineeyoung.bsky.social Poet Laureate emerita, Arlington, VA. Winner (w/ Akram Aylisli), 2026 EBRD Literature Prize. Translator of Akram Aylisli (fiction), Anna Starobinets (memoir), & Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. https://katherine-young-poet.com/
Europe-Asia Studies @europe-asia.bsky.social Since 1949, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on history + current political-social-economic affairs in Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia.
Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social professor at the University of Texas at Austin, maphead, dog lover, Go Bills, slow marathon runner, opinions mine
Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
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Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social Writer, researcher of Kharkiv, PhD student at St Andrews University.
Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social Fellow @epik-ukraine.bsky.social & Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social. Editor, book series SPPS & Ukrainian Voices: www.ibidem.eu/en/Series/Society-Politics/. Assoc. Prof., Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-4646.
abi karas @abikaras.bsky.social likes roofs 𓆏 leverhulme ECF uni of st andrews. (post-)soviet urban space, local politics + identity. she/her/она
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social Prof @TuftsPoliSci. Post-communism, nationalism, identity, citizenship, memory, religion. 2024 book: 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦 : Entangled Histories, Diverging States. https://tinyurl.com/5y8nvemb
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Dr Sasha Dovzhyk @dovzhyk.bsky.social Ukrainian killjoy. Based in Lviv after 10 years in London. Writing in New York Times, CNN, Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.
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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social Historian of East-Central Europe, PhD. Author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022), ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians (2013). Director of Ukrainian Institute London. www.olesyakhromeychuk.com
Victoria Donovan @victoriadonovan.bsky.social Prof @StAModLangs/Ukraine, extractivist politics, colonial encounters/Rep'd by Sophie Scard @UnitedAgents
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East: https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/life-in-spite-of-everything/
cms @camillemarys.bsky.social Researching museums & extraction
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Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Wert der Vergangenheit" @valuepast.bsky.social Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past"
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Blog: https://valuepast.hypotheses.org
Susannah Eckersley @susannaheckersley.bsky.social Prof of Critical Heritage & Memory Cultures, Newcastle University, UK
Director, AHRC Northern Bridge
AHRC-DFG: Cultural Dynamics: Museums & Democracy in Motion
HERA: en/counter/points
Horizon 2020: CoHERE
EUFP7: European Museums in an age of Migration
Petra Dolata @pdolata.bsky.social energy historian at the University of Calgary, originally from the Ruhrpott, now residing on Treaty 7 land, supporter of BVB, Brentford FC and Calgary Wild FC, she/her
Ulviyya Ali @ulviyyaali.bsky.social A #journalist with a travel ban engaged in a profession banned in #Azerbaijan.
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social Author: Pipeline Populism (2022). also into subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer, International Studies, VCU.
Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social what is unchangeable in nature can take care of itself | assistant prof & historical sociologist | private account
Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social energy/environment/media/climate; once made a glacier memorial; writer; occasional podcaster; improv philosopher; resisting the petrostate; 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
Corinne Geering @corinnegeering.bsky.social Historian working on regional development, energy landscapes & uses of the past |
Assistant Prof at Johannes Kepler University Linz
Shujaat Ahmadzada @shujaatahmadzada.bsky.social Independent researcher | South Caucasus, Russia, Turkiye | foreign policy, conflicts, history
Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social Co-Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
Hugo Estecahandy @hugoesteca.bsky.social PhD candidate at French Institute of Geopolitics / GEODE project.
#Geopolitics, #cryptocurrency and #mining #Russia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan. Working group "Digital Materialities" at CIS/CNRS : https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/digital-materialities/
Mónica Salas Landa @msalas.bsky.social Asst. Prof @LafCol | @CornellAnthro PhD | I teach and write about Mex and LatAm; visual culture, ruins, memory, nation-state formation, archives, petroculture
Edward Lemon @edwardlemon.bsky.social Central Asia, authoritarianism, security and books
Petar Bankov @raumwurschtler.bsky.social Politics lecturer @ Glasgow Uni | parties, territory, participation, left-wing politics | "интелектуален и морален шумкар" | вадя "фантастични суми от грантове" | гордо блокиран от утайките на туитър
Pavlina R Tcherneva @ptcherneva.bsky.social President, Levy Economics Institute
Professor, Bard College
Author, The Case for a Job Guarantee https://a.co/d/gAoulSA
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Yéléna Mac-Glandières @macglandieres.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
ATER @universitereims.bsky.social
Pol-geog & geopo of logistics and infrastructure in the Caspian Sea.
I see creolizations everywhere
Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social Associate Prof of International Relations, Uni of Exeter. EUCU Vice President and Penryn campus rep. Researches participation, governance, knowledge production, Eurasia. Cyclist. Junglist. Tea obsessive. Constantly restless. Green 🌱
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
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Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social feminist sociologist & anthropologist of highered & labour in digital era; social/ist mvts; author of #AlternativeUniversity, own views
Gökçe Günel @drgokcegunel.bsky.social Anthropologist at @RiceAnthro.bsky.social
author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi
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Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social Professor in Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow
Kevork Oskanian @drkevorko.bsky.social IR, International (Dis)Order, Eurasian Politics. Lecturer at @uniexeter.bsky.social. Onetime Liberal. Enemy of Pigeonholes. X refugee. Personal views, Repost ≠ 'Like'. Cosmopolitan mutt: roots in 🇦🇲🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇧🇧🇪🇬🇧.
Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social Philosopher / global (health) justice, critical perspectives on East-West hierarchies of knowledge / decolonial, antifascist and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social Political Sociologist, Decolonial Writer, Central Asian to the core.
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
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.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Novara Media @novaramedia.com 📺 📰🎙🚩 People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social Analyst EurasiaGroup. Iran, energy. Wrote some books.
Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social Professor of Sociology & Faculty Affiliate, Committee on International Relations & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago https://voices.uchicago.edu/juliango/
Mette High @mettehigh.bsky.social Economic anthropologist, energy nerd, sourdough baker and dog lover
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https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/mmh20
Mattin Biglari @mattinbiglari.bsky.social Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Environmental History at the University of Bristol. Oil and environmental justice; decolonisation; labour; infrastructure; technopolitics; STS; energy humanities
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
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