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@clairewim.bsky.social @clairewim.bsky.social Researcher
Silvia Salvatici @ssalvatici.bsky.social Modern history at the University of Florence, working on humanitarianism, Southern Europe and refugees. PI of the ERC project 'HumanEuroMed' https://www.humaneuromed.unifi.it/
Harry C. Merritt @harrymerritt.bsky.social Historian working on the social history of war in 🇱🇻🇷🇺🇩🇪. Book: Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026). Opinions my own, not those of my employer.
Juozapas Paškauskas @juozapas.bsky.social Historian of 19th-Century Social and Cultural History in the Russian Empire | Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark. Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017. (Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Oksana Nesterenko @erlenadlu.bsky.social Musicologist in New York Writing a book about sacred music in the Soviet Union extendedtechniques.com www.montclair.edu/~nesterenkoo
Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com Postdoc @UCLouvain | ICHEC Brussels | https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com History economics, inflation, econ policy & energy Political econ & central banks #Rstats #nlp #data_viz Managing editor journals.openedition.org/oeconomia github.com/agoutsmedt/
Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social Professor @ Uni Mainz | Europeanization | humanitarianism | historical anthropology of socialism | surfing ambivalences for a living | new book: REALIGNING HUMANITARIANISM IN THE BALKANS, Indiana UP | ERC CG Racial Socialism https://carnabrkovic.net/
Isabelle DeSisto @isadesisto.bsky.social PhD candidate in Politics at Princeton (on the 2026-7 job market!) | Formerly Harvard Gov & Cambridge POLIS | Studying politics in Eastern Europe 🇲🇩🇺🇦🇷🇺 | isabelledesisto.com | @russiawatcher
Jokubas Salyga @jokubassalyga.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Political Science at UT RGV Associate Editor @gpejournal.bsky.social Political economist exploring post-communist Europe, capitalism and social change. 🌐 jokubassalyga.lt All views here are personal.
Donnie M @donnie-m.bsky.social PhD Candidate at McGill Doing Soviet History (Estonia, economic reform, and food systems under late socialism)
Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe with a focus on CEE, working on diasporas, mass politics, propaganda, and crowdfunding across borders. Research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History, associate at @ox.ac.uk and @ulbruxelles.bsky.social
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social Performance historian, disability historian. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024) 30% off with code NYUP30 https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/ https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
@moniqueborin.bsky.social @moniqueborin.bsky.social Historian. Post Doc at Museu Paulista / FAPESP. Urban history, real estate market, decolonial theory. Também corinthiana e noveleira.
Anastasiia Akulich @anaakulich.bsky.social Historian of Sino-Russian interactions. Research Fellow in Global Health History at U of Leeds. Member of editorial collective @peripheralhist.bsky.social.
Paris Pin-Yu Chen @parispinyuchen.bsky.social Taiwanese Estophile. Postdoc "Landowning Subjectivities" @UBham; Historian of race, eugenics & land reforms in the Baltic states
Arpi Maniero @arpimaniero.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe, Armenian Studies, Caucasus Studies, Russian Empire, Soviet Union
Eha Emilia Oras @ehaemilia.bsky.social Junior Research at Tallinn University, Estonia. Historian - history of gender, sexuality, medicine (formerly literature and ideas/ideology in high/late middle ages). Queer. She/Her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Stephen Badalyan Riegg @sbriegg.bsky.social Historian of Imperial Russia & Caucasus at Texas A&M.
Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world Arthur H Dadian and Ara Otztemel Assoc Prof in Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts; southern transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer.
@romanosharov.bsky.social @romanosharov.bsky.social
Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social Historian of Soviet internationalism. USSR-India relations/International Red Cross movement/Soviets in International Organizations/digital humanities for historians.
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social Historian interested in media & memory. Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Göttingen Project coordinator (PhotoTogo) @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social
Peter Schöttler @pschottler.bsky.social Historiker, historian, historien. Former CNRS and FU Berlin. #FrenchHistory #GermanHistory #Historiography https://peterschoettler.de/ --- Слава Україні! ---
Patrice Dabrowski @patricedabrowski.bsky.social historian by training; author of books on commemorations, Poland, and the Carpathian Mountains; climbing aficionado; lover of good food, wine, music, conversations
Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social Historian of the Habsburg Empire in the long 19th century; also WWI and history of nationalism. Professor in Modern History, University of Ljubljana.
D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. Currently researching and writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI (& beyond).
Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts @glosoc.bsky.social This AHRC research project explores ideas and networks concerning work-related social rights from 1880 to the Present in Germany, the UK, Tanzania and Kenya.
Christopher Solomon @chris-solomon.bsky.social Posting about Syria, Ukraine, Russia, and foreign affairs. 🇸🇾🇺🇦 Author of "In Search of Greater Syria." https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/in-search-of-greater-syria-9780755641826/
BASEES Study Group on the Baltic States @balticbasees.bsky.social We promote exchanges between researchers based in the UK and beyond with an interest in the Baltic states. Subscribe to our newsletter and receive updates of our events: https://basees.org/study-group-on-the-baltic-stat
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Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social linguist » social scientist » privacy pro| author of Queer Roma, Routledge 2021| applied social sciences PhD| queer intersectionality| CIPM| GAC chair|multilingual| opinions mine 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇲🇨🇿 •sex•gender•race•ethnicity•privacy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7123-702X
Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at University College London (UCL). Moral clarity enjoyer. Ally of Ukraine. Own views only. 🇪🇪
Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Web: https://www.inz.si/en/ The Contributions to Contemporary History: https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/ (OA) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SistoryInfo Visiting fellows: https://inz.si/en/leto/2025-26/
📚Andrei Sorescu 🗃 @adsorescu.bsky.social Early career scholar working on Europe in the long 19th c. | Cultural and intellectual history of Romania in a transnational context | Member of the transcorr.eu ERC project @ the New Europe College, Bucharest | https://nec-ro.academia.edu/AndreiSorescu
Annelotte Janse @annelottejanse.bsky.social Dr. | Historian of German, European, and transnational far-right extremism since 1945 | 📍 Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Germany https://zzf-potsdam.de/en/institution/people/staff/annelotte-janse
Dzavid Dzanic @eintellection.bsky.social Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
Petra Matić @petramatic.bsky.social Balkan girl uncovering Non-Aligned histories. Dreamer and doer in a world where the funding is the curator. Educated by ruangrupa, New Art School Modality, Bureau d'Études, and BLOK. 2024 fellow of TheMuseumsLab and Global Cultural Relations.
Radu Harald Dinu @raduhd.bsky.social Assistant professor of history Jönköping university - Sweden 🇩🇪+🇷🇴 in 🇸🇪
Helen Lindberg @cloudbuster01.bsky.social Researcher, lecturer in political science, global politics, and Human Rights. Columnist. Freelance writer. Lover of all things dog. Twitter is my abusive x. Yes, still working on that book. Following the green light.
Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote Postdoc Fellow @ UMD & TU Berlin #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
Holger Syme @literasyme.bsky.social Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person. More: https://syme.dispositio.net
Nicole Harry, Ph.D @nicolerharry.bsky.social Ph.D., Soviet soft power and Lithuanian religious identity | grammatically and dramatically stressed out | she/her
Emily C. Bruce @amocantare.bsky.social Modern European historian; Associate Prof. at the University of Minnesota Morris; author of Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class (UMass, 2021); SMC of twins; she/her. Views expressed here are my own.
K @kristagoff.bsky.social @kristagoff.bsky.social
Lizzie Martin @lizzieajmartin.bsky.social phd student @ birkbeck, uol. researching the history of the international refugee regime, disability, and the 'hard core' of 'difficult to resettle' displaced persons in postwar europe.
Matthias Neumann @mneumannuea.bsky.social Professor of Modern History, Vice-President of BASEES, Head of UEA School of History, Norwich City FC 💚💛 & FC Energie Cottbus ❤️🤍 https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/matthias-neumann
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson @katesw.bsky.social Midwife of texts for academics and the arts | KSWTranslations.com from Finnish, German and Polish, editing in English | runs ridgewritingretreats.com | devourer of books | she/ona/sie/hän
Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
Nicholas Morrison @nicholasmm.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Maryland | Interested in histories of rivers and lakes in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Researcher at the Institute of contemporary history in Ljubljana. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd. 📍Ljubljana/Belgrade/Paris digitalkosovski.github.io
Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.
Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social Assistant Professor in History, UoN, UK | Anglo-German-Polish relations | displaced persons | post-war history | UNRRA | Queer Displacement | Hidden Histories. Dogs, cats, coffee, and bad puns welcome. She/Her
Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur @agatumilowicz.bsky.social Scholar & Writer ✍🏻 Ph.D. NYU Comparative Literature I write on archive, nature, memory, and layers of Polish, Jewish and German heritage in my native Lower Silesia. Words in The Brooklyn Rail, Triangle House Review, CEU Review of Books, Apofenie, etc
Svitlana Biedarieva @s-biedarieva.bsky.social Art historian, artist, curator. Research on Ukraine's decoloniality and wartime art. Book author at Palgrave and Routledge. President-Elect at @sheraart.bsky.social. Views are my own. https://svitlanabiedarieva.com/
Oksana Dudko @oksanadudko.bsky.social historian and theatre curator | violence, body, the first world war, and the 1917 revolutions | Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union | also write about contemporary Ukrainian theatre | in theatre when not in the archives
Rima Praspaliauskiene @begoniavasa.bsky.social Anthropologist, Historian, Writer. Author: “Enveloped Lives: Caring & Relating in Lithuanian Health Care” (2022, Cornell UP);
Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social history & intellectual history | legal history & theory | political & economic thought | 19–20th c. philosophy & theory | marx formulating a PhD project, 在学习中文
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Sam Hirst @samueljhirst.bsky.social Historian. Bilkent University, Department of International Relations. https://www.samueljhirst.com
Mirjam Galley @megalley.bsky.social Historian and editor for history and heritage at transcript academic publishing (Bielefeld, GER). PhD in Soviet history from The University of Sheffield. Berliner. Likes people, music, cats, food & going outside. she/her
Philip R. Conway @prconway.bsky.social
Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social Historian at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
Neja Blaj Hribar @neja-bh.bsky.social Historian, research assistant (INZ) SE Europe (esp. YU), migrations, censuses, ideologies, digital humanities, late 19. and 20. century Also: dogs, music, literature She/her Views my own
A @albarenberg.bsky.social @albarenberg.bsky.social
Alison Carrol @alisoncarrol.bsky.social Historian at Brunel Uni of London working on borders in modern Europe. Author of The Return of Alsace. Current project: the idea of the Channel tunnel.
Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social Canadian in Oz. IR academic. History of international ordering, history of international thought. He/him. Book, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination." https://bit.ly/3h86v4Y
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social Theory & History of Psychology at the University of Groningen (@rug-gmw.bsky.social). Elected fellow of the APA in History 26 and Developmental 7. Elected president of the APA division for History, 2024-2026. Advisor to NWO SSH Roundtable for Humanities.
Tomasz Hen-Konarski @hen-konarski.bsky.social Exploring political history of Greek Catholicism at IH PAN in Warsaw | Magister degree in history from University of Warsaw | PhD in history from EUI | Freshest output: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237824000080
Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/ Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
Immo Rebitschek @immorebitschek.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe, Stalinism, Soviet law & criminal justice, Russian imperial famine relief and humanitarianism... and the NBA (go Mavs 🏀!) @uni-jena.de https://uni-jena.academia.edu/ImmoRebitschek
Ben Van Zee @benvanzee.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
Don Van Atta @oldsovetlog.bsky.social I study (agrarian) politics in the former Soviet states. Long-term policy advisor in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Tajikistan. Resident director of 5 USAID-funded projects. Democratic institutions are hard to build and keep. Berkeley PolSci PhD eons ago.
Tomasz Drabowicz @tomdrabowicz.bsky.social PhD from @eui-eu.bsky.social (Digital) inequality, social class, economic sociology, aging, quality of life, sustainable development, quantitative methods, history, LGBTQ issues. Personal account & private opinions
Kasia Jezowska @kjezowska.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe. Socialist things, industrial exhibitions, and cultural bureaucracies.
Fran Hirsch @franhirsch.bsky.social Historian. Author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg and Empire of Nations. Currently writing and teaching courses about the history of Russian-American entanglement.
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Dr Beatrice Michalovska @bemich.bsky.social PhD in Slavonics, UofGlasgow: Cold War, migration, media, language. When I don't read, I translate 🇱🇹🇨🇿
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/ Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history! ⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
E. Hochman @erhochman.bsky.social Historian of modern Germany/Austria, politics, nationalism. Views are my own.
Edward Cohn @edward-cohn.bsky.social historian of the Soviet Union, surveillance, and the secret police; curriculum and pedagogy nerd with a passion for the liberal arts
Steevy Sarafian @steevysarafian.bsky.social 📚 Intern at Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA). History student. Prev at Sciences Po Grenoble. 🕵️‍♂️ War studies, Ukraine, mass violence, environment, astropolitics.
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️‍🌈 he/him 1st book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: mobility / Europeanization / landscapes 🦇 Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰. Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke I'm lost between three languages. Bear with me.
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
Joan Neuberger @jayneu.bsky.social Retired prof living it up in NYC. History/Film/Digital/ Current book: Eisenstein & Nature. Strong opinions about tennis. Gimme some acoustic blues. She/her. ☮️ Ceasefire Now.
Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social We research, teach and raise awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from antiquity to the present day. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her 📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
Artur Banaszewski @arturbanaszewski.bsky.social • PhD Researcher in Intellectual History, European University Institute • 20th century, Cold War, Marxism, Liberalism, Eastern Europe • Convenor @inthiseui.bsky.social • Graduate Associate @gpolthought.bsky.social • Formerly @jhideas.bsky.social
Satu Sorvali @satusorvali.bsky.social PhD, cultural historian at the University of Turku / Senior Research Officer in the National Archives of Finland / Late 19th-century, press history, the history of emotions, digital methods and tools
Julian Hans @julianhans.eu Journalist | Ortsmarken: Freiburg, Nowosibirsk, Frankfurt (Oder), Poznań, Hamburg, München, Moskau, Sankt Petersburg, Murmansk, Wolgograd, Tbilisi, Jerewan, Machatschkala, Kyjiw, Donezk, Odessa, Lwiw, Simferopol, Kaliningrad, Bischkek, Aşgabat, Minsk
Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history
Anna Gunin @annagunin.bsky.social Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others 🍉 🗝️ 🌻
Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social environmental historian, illustrator, island nerd.