Stacey L. Boulter @staceyboulter.bsky.social Graduate Student | Department of Religious Studies | McMaster University | Indian Buddhism | Monastic Law | Sanskrit Literature
Ryne Beddard @rybeddard.bsky.social American Religious History | Religion and Race in US South | Environmental Humanities | Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill | Swamp Lover
Commonplace: the journal of early American life @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social Commonplace: the journal of early American life since 2000. Published by a partnership of the OIEAHC and AAS. Commonplace.online
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social The University of Pennsylvania's research center for the study of Jewish civilization —linking scholars to scholars, researchers to resources, and ideas to the wider world.
Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com Freelance art and architectural historian with focus on English medieval churches but love poking around all buildings. ALL BUILDINGS!
www.stainedglassattitudes.com
https://ko-fi.com/stainedglassattitudes
Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
David Bowles @davidbowles.us Writer. Translator. Nahuatlahtoh. Chicano. He/él/yehhua. Pan [💖💛💙]. Representation: Full Circle Literary. Associate Professor at UTRGV. Ca notoca Tlahzotic Mazacnihuitl.
qUCL @qucl.bsky.social Launched in 2014, qUCL is a university-wide initiative that brings together UCL staff and students with research and teaching interests in LGBTQ studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory and related fields.
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, migration, and nativism. Author of Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089220#preview
Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽🏫 #Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer.🗣️Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social writer. mother. gremlin. PhD. MFA. author: Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl & Sexism Ed. co-host: @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
Emily Ogden @emily-ogden.bsky.social Essayist, critic, and 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. New book on Edgar Allan Poe, DARKNESS BECOMES BRIGHT, out from Viking Books on Sept. 29.
Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social Settler. Religion, media, & culture scholar. Writing on digital hate & extremism, ritual, & Hindu/tva publics. Animal lover, anti-caste, anti-racist, anti-hate, anti-fascist. No response to trolls. RP ⍯ Endorsement; BLM, FREE PALESTINE
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Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social I am not writing a bio.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Emily Suzanne Johnson @emilyjohnson.bsky.social Historian of religion, politics, & sexuality in the U.S. Currently writing about satanic panics and other culture wars. Love cats, cooking, kitsch, and quiet. Strong opinions about stationery. she/her
Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social so-called lady scholar & scholar of ladies | associate professor of history @colgate.edu | usually thinking about Catholic girlhoods, special collections, upstate utopias, and convent road trips 🎀 📚 👩🏻💻 🚗 | she/her
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | Now writing for Basic Books | ex-berliner, Wissenschaftskolleg | sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Dorothy Kim @dorothyk98.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, intersectional feminist, Great Pyrenee person. 
Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Rachel Lindsey, PhD @rmclindsey.bsky.social mom, associate professor of American Religion and Culture at Saint Louis University, lives in STL
wants to read books, lift weights, and hang out with my doggos
Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social Historian of religion and politics in the US specializing in Gilded Age and Progressive Era, reform movements, and religious debates about American democracy.
Views are my own, not my employer’s. Likes and reposts are not endorsements.
Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social Historian.
Author, Methodist Connections: Early American Religion in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (forthcoming, Cornell UP).
Now researching global history of religion + soccer.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social Cultural worker/curator/art historian
https://latanyasautry.net/
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
Stephanie Mota Thurston, Ph.D. @smothurston.bsky.social professor of ethics, religion, & politics. focus on democratic practices, citizenship, public schools, abolition, & borders | standard disclaimers
stephaniemotathurston.com
The Crossroads Project @xroadproj.bsky.social Black Religious Histories, Cultures, Communities (https://crossroads.princeton.edu)
Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and Princeton University
SPIRIT HOUSE site (https://www.crossroads-spirithouse.org)
David *Objection* Ngong @profngong.bsky.social Scholar of Religions in Africa. Author of *Senghor's Eucharist* (https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481317795/senghors-eucharist/ 2023). Africa Section Editor, Religion Compass. Research: https://stillman.academia.edu/DavidNgong
Elaine Maisner @emaisner.bsky.social Chair, Cedar Falls Precinct @ncdemocrats.bsky.social | Politics SotoZenBuddhism Food Writing Art IyengarYoga | Executive Editor Emerita @uncpress.bsky.social & love my authors.
[above: Sphinx (1964) by Saori Akutagawa Madokoro]
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org bringing you religion, culture, and politics since 2008
* award-winning
* independent
* non-profit
* justice-minded
* irreverent
RD is a @praeyesright.bsky.social publication
want to write for RD? check out https://religiondispatches.org/submissions/
Journal of Mormon History @jmormonhist.bsky.social The Journal of Mormon History is an official publication of the Mormon History Association (MHA). Its purpose is to publish scholarly work covering the full scope of Mormon History.
Est. 1974.
lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
Eve Tuck @tuckeve.bsky.social 
Marie Griffith @mariegriffith.bsky.social US religious history, gender & sexuality studies, religion & politics. Professor at WashU in St. Louis. Writing a book on clergy sexual abuse across American Christianity. https://rap.wustl.edu/people/r-marie-griffith/ 
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Alexandria Griffin @alexandriagriffin.bsky.social Studying Catholicism and race in America.
Heather D Curtis @heatherdcurtis.bsky.social Historian of American Religion. Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities @ Tufts. 
Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social Writer/doodler
Chip Callahan @chipcallahan.bsky.social Religious Studies prof. Folklorist.
Author, Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust. Co-Editor, The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Religion and Popular Culture.
Currently: religious history of oceanic resource extraction (whaling)
Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social Birdwatching Historian of Birdwatching
Associate Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social Historian 🗃️ | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | My book *Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis* is now out from UNC Press, tinyurl.com/opiumslavery | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
Jonathan VanAntwerpen @vanantwerpen.bsky.social 
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social 
McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
https://www.mceas.org/
American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social The ACHA is a community of scholars, archivists, and teachers of the history of the Catholic Church. Founded in 1919, it is where Catholic studies began.
https://achahistory.org/
Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social A collaborative research community at @princeton.edu advancing computational & data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. Publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social.
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MARBAS at Princeton @marbasprinceton.bsky.social Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies at Princeton
https://marbas.princeton.edu/
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social NCPH advances the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging historians' engagement with the public.
Digital Public Library of America @dpla.bsky.social The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives and museums, and makes them freely available to all.
Center on Lived Religion @livedreligion.bsky.social A research and teaching initiative of Saint Louis University dedicated to the study and understanding of religion as it is lived in human experiences, systems, and material worlds.
Matthew J. Cressler @mjcressler.bsky.social ✍🏼 rogue scholar & writer, currently at work on Catholics & the Making of MAGA (HarperCollins, 2027): https://matthewjcressler.com/
💥 comix creator: https://badcatholics-comics.org/
🤖 chief of staff for CPIT: https://www.cpitpbc.com/
Katharine Mershon @profdognerd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion in NC | Author of Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in the US: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
Hiawatha Northington @hnorthington.bsky.social Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
"I came for love...and to find that I'm remembered."
Jackson State '93, UTexas Law '96
♦️♦️♦️ #601
Ben Zeller @zellerben.bsky.social Professor of Religion, scholar of new religious movements, Fulbright Finland alum, cross-country skier, hiker, partner, parent, sometimes-cheesemaker
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
American Religion @amrel.bsky.social Published semiannually, American Religion offers an open-access forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas.
Matt Hedstrom @matthedstrom.bsky.social Historian of US religion, politics, culture, SBNR at UVA. Writing a book about religion, the UN, and “one world” in Cold War America. Author of The Rise of Liberal Religion. Will also post about baseball and tennis whether you like it or not.
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Sarah Dees @sarahdees.bsky.social Professional nerd. American & Indigenous religions. History of museums + science + politics + race + empire (+ Dolly Parton). Editorial team @ Material Religion. My views. she/her.
Shreena Gandhi @shreenaniketa.bsky.social Just a mid-40s academic.
Posts are my own.
books and beautiful gowns, phd. @ambrelynae.bsky.social cultural historian/theorist/writer/critic • love 🎶 & other artsy things • amateur boxer • professor • she/her• unserious
The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social Award-winning magazine (and podcast) about religion, society, and media published by NYU's Center for Religion & Media. https://therevealer.org/
Quincy James Rineheart @qscholar.bsky.social historian of black religious thought. 🏳️🌈rustinian scholar. lover of art. associate dean. ✊🏾
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social The SSSR is an interdisciplinary academic association that promotes & communicates social scientific research about religious institutions and experiences. Founded in 1949. sssreligion.org Flagship publication: JSSR @jssreligion.bsky.social
Adrienne Keene @nativeapprops.bsky.social ᏥᏣᎳᎩ. Cherokee Nation citizen. Writer/scholar. Tulsa Artist Fellow. Author of Native Appropriations blog/substack(soon), NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE, co-creator All My Relations podcast. I also make baskets that glow.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Kwame Holmes @kwameholmes.bsky.social Black, Queer and Carceral Studies, teach in Bard College’s Human Rights program, writing about infrastructures of “safety.” Learning to podcast
Rebekka King @rebekkaking.bsky.social Professor of Religion, Middle Tennessee State University | PhD, University of Toronto | Author of The New Heretics (NYUP, 2023) | You can ask about my research, but I’d rather talk about the amazing students I get to spend time with | (she/her) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social Professor of History and Black Studies | Award-winning author | 'The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War' | Dad | Husband | Aging hooper | Wu-Tang forever | chadlwilliams.com
Bonnie Thornton Dill @drbtd.bsky.social Professor, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies; Arts and Humanities Dean Emerita , University of Maryland.
Emily D. Crews @emilydcrews.bsky.social Executive Director Marty Center at UChiDivinity. Historian of religions in US/Africa. Relig + gender, reproductive politics, art, abolition. She/her/hers
Divya Cherian @dillivali.bsky.social Historian of India/South Asia
Dr. Brian J. Clites @brianclites.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies and Gender Studies at Case Western Reserve University 
Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
www.lorgiagarciapena.com
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