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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
Prof. Louise J. Wilkinson @medievalfemina.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Studies, Lincoln, formerly at Canterbury. Passionate about medieval women, queenship, the thirteenth century, English medieval government, medieval aristocratic life styles, medieval records, and Magna Carta. Views my own.
Dr Abby Armstrong @medievalabby.bsky.social Medieval Historian.
She/her.
Dr Paula Del Val Vales @pauladelval.bsky.social Senior Content Curator at The Social History Archive, PhD in History from the University of Lincoln, Medieval Women enthusiast and interested in households and comparative history.
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
Kirsty Bolton @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social Likes: medieval literature, sea swimming, plants, embroidery.
Dislikes: transphobes, bigots, jelly.
Leverhulme ECF at Oxford, researching identity and the sea in medieval romance.
Dr Daniella M Gonzalez @deegonz92.bsky.social Medievalist: London, urban history, political discourse, documentary culture📜
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MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
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MEMSLib @memslibukc.bsky.social Digital library for researchers of Medieval and Early Modern studies, run by postgraduate students at the University of Kent
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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.
Jessica M. Elliott @jmelliott.bsky.social Associate professor of medieval history. Working on Jewish-Christian interaction, religious conversion, and attitudes toward converts in medieval France and Italy. She/her.
Richard Cassidy @rjcassidy.bsky.social Potters around with pipe rolls, and sometimes memoranda rolls or even receipt and issue rolls. 13th century English government finance, in other words. Also does crosswords and dotes on grandchildren. 
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
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Dr Stephen Donnachie @stevedonnachie.bsky.social Historian of the Crusades & the Latin East, Lusignan Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean, Medievalist, 12th-13th Centuries, Misanthropologist. Swansea, Wales. 🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺
Fredi Teale @fteale.bsky.social Singing teacher/vocal coach with history PhD trying to find time to write. Trustee of the Allen Lane Foundation. Interested in abbeys, archaeology, mythology and music. I also have a lot of cats and children.
Paul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
Jacqueline Jung @profjackie.bsky.social Medievalist and art historian @Yale University, Melville fanatic, music lover, cat mom. Author of THE GOTHIC SCREEN and ELOQUENT BODIES: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
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Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social Chaotic good w/ redneck roots. Medievalist/teacher/PhD candidate/worker/overexplainer/aspiring pícara.
Personal account; loud opinions (which is all of them) my own.
she/her
📍 North Carolina (in the woods somewhere instead of doing my work)
L. Renato Grigoli, PhD @lrpsnaps.bsky.social Medievalist, Legal Historian, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://lrphotography.art/
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social Professional crusadesologist. Independent scholar. Author of https://www.routledge.com/Robert-of-Nantes-Patriarch-of-Jerusalem-1240-1254/Bishop/p/book/9781032267043. He/him. I can name 200 popes, but only 6 digits of pi.
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social Medievalist. Likes maps, birds, nature, cycling, cider and primates. She/her.
Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.
Insta @katherineweikert- N Nicholas Karn @nicholaskarn.bsky.social Student of law, customs, charters and castles.
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Betsy Moss @byzbets.bsky.social By day: university administrator and project manager for curriculum and communications
By night: parent, spouse, musician, gardener, artist, reader, writer, and art historian 
Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social He/Him 🏳️⚧️ ✨ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO ✨Gender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World ✨my own bad opinions
Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books
sé/he/il/er/han
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Albane Patey @scriptora.bsky.social Enseignante Histoire-Géographie-EMC
Docteure Histoire médiévale (Italie, pratiques de l’écrit) - Lamop
Chargée d’actions pédagogiques - Institut de France
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg @menalibahs.bsky.social Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard Fine Arts Library. Scholar of women in medieval Arabic pop lit. She/her/hers. Opinions≠employer's.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Ryan Lynch @ryanjosephlynch.com Professor of Islamic History @ The Citadel. Work on the Islamic state throughout history. Love tech + games + punk rock. Writing a book about history in games. Views my own. ryanjosephlynch.com
Alison Vacca @medievalqabq.bsky.social editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social
historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania
currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate
associate prof at Columbia University
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists @alusuralwusta.bsky.social Journal of Middle East Medievalists (@mideastmedieval.bsky.social), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the medieval Middle East. Edited by Zayde Antrim (zaydeantrim.bsky.social) & Alison Vacca (@medievalqabq.bsky.social) 
Rob Haug @robhaug.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
Omniya Abdel Barr @omabarr.bsky.social Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A.
Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
Najam Haider @nhaider.bsky.social Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
SCORE @rebellionuhh.bsky.social Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Theo Beers @t6e.dev Father, husband, Persian/Arabic philologist, programmer
Senior course producer @Boot.dev, non-res. fellow @FUBerlin
Socdem, civil libertarian, anti-identitarian
https://www.theobeers.com/
John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Leonie Böttiger @leonieboettiger.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at MPIWG Berlin researching premodern Arabic recipe collections related to crafts. Interested in languages, literature & translation. Editor at ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
I write about my research at arabicrecipes.hypotheses.org
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project site: invisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
Edith X Chen @exchen.bsky.social Asst Prof of Pre-Modern Middle East @ U of Utah | Islamic History | Mongols | Global Middle Ages | Local History | PhD Princeton NES | An Islamicist who dabbles in Mongol stuff than the other way around, but let's not get too pedantic
Thomas Wier @trwier.bsky.social Linguist & Caucasologist • Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi • Research languages of the Caucasus, the Tonkawa language • Author of 'Tonkawa Texts' • Weekly Georgian Etymologies
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Javi Albarrán 🍉 @jalbarran.bsky.social Loving husband, proud father and passionate historian of the Medieval Islamic West at the University of Granada. Living the Albayzin. Writing on the loss of al-Andalus, Crusades in al-Andalus, jihad, Andalusi Christians, Andalusi memory... Antifascist.
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social Historian of West Asia and the Persianate world with a focus on the Fatimids. Subscribe here https://fatimid.substack.com?r=4szyls&utm_medium=ios
Jon Hoover @jhoover04.bsky.social Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
Dave Wasserman @redistrict.bsky.social Fiddle player who calls elections on the side.
Rich @runger123.bsky.social I left the Republican party in 2017 when Trump was inaugurated. I am now a registered Independent. Trump destroyed the party of Eisenhower and Reagan. I have always voted for the best man or woman at the time of the election regardless of party.
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said.
Book: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History
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https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social Grantifa in CA. Card-carrying member of the human race. Managing editor at crooksandliars.com Podcast at MOMocrats.com
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Kyle Tharp @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social Writer & researcher | Author of Chaotic Era, a newsletter about politics, media, and online influence | 15x ultramarathoner | Subscribe: www.chaoticera.news
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
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Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
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