The CLAIM ERC-CoG & GenAut FWF-START projects @receptionmatters.bsky.social ERC-CoG project "Secondary Pseudepigraphy," 2026–2031, CLAIM.univie.ac.at/
FWF-START project "Generative Authority," 2024–2029, GenAut.univie.ac.at/
@erc.europa.eu | @univie.ac.at | @fwf-at.bsky.social
Daria Kohler @dareiadareia.bsky.social • Classics (Greek and Roman "publishing")
• Digital Humanities (dabbling in things)
• Research management (currently at KU Leuven)
A little book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009545327
Christopher B. Zeichmann @cbzeichmann.bsky.social biblical scholar and comic book enthusiast (he/they)
https://torontomu.academia.edu/ChristopherZeichmann
Georg Gerleigner @gsgerleigner.bsky.social Archäologe und Provenienzforscher. Mag Himbeeren und griechische Vasenmalerei. Privat hier.
Archaeologist and provenance researcher. Likes raspberries and Greek vase-painting. Private account.
Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social Senior researcher, Heidelberg Academy. Malalas, Sparta, Pausanias, historiography, narratology. Father, baker, painter, maker.
🇧🇪🇩🇪🇦🇹🇬🇷🇨🇭🏴☠️
Kristian Heal @kristianheal.bsky.social Scholar of Syriac Literature in Late Antiquity, textual transmission, manuscript cultures, and the history of scholarship. Happiest surrounded by books or the English countryside.
Mina Monier @mmonier.bsky.social PI of the RCN-funded project Unconventional Gospels (UnGos): A Computer–Assisted Analysis of Complex Harmonic Traditions in Newly Discovered Manuscripts.
Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @UICLAS professor of the ancient Mediterranean world. @UCLA, @UMich alum. Korean American, son of immigrants, striving anti-racist, not very good follower of Jesus
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social Making Texas higher education great again. Classics/late antiquity/early Christianity. Sports ball fan.
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
M Adryael Tong, Ph.D. @madryaeltong.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Testament and Judaic Studies. HBCU Stan. Theoryhead. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.🌹🥢🏳️🌈 #FlyEaglesFly #NotMeUs she/היא
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | editor of Theoria @ Fordham Press
http://johnpenniman.com/
Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UT Austin. Specialist on the texts and material culture of ancient Jews and Christians, ancient imperialism and economics, and the modern politics of biblical interpretation.
CJ Schmidt (he/him) @cjosephus.bsky.social historian of (late) ancient Mediterranean religion + medicine | PhD dropout | #FirstGen | #Neurodivergent | #SOTL + pedagogy nerd | horror aficionado | Whovian | washed-up lacrosse player 🥍 | @vox-magica.bsky.social stan | 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇮🇹 (Rome)
Sarah Porter @portersf.bsky.social asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u
early christianity // material culture // archaeology
Ekaputra Tupamahu @ekaputrat.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament | Author of Contesting Languages (OUP, 2022) | Indonesian | Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Matt Chalmers @mjchalmers.bsky.social Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
Lucy Grig @lucygrig.bsky.social Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
Cavan Concannon @cavanconcannon.bsky.social John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics
Professor of Religion at USC
cavanconcannon.com
Taylor Petrey @taylorpetrey.bsky.social Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College.
Early Christianity, Gender Studies, Mormonism
Diane Shane Fruchtman @dianeshanef.bsky.social Rutgers Religion Prof; Medievalist historian of Christianity. Martyrdom Scholar. Advocate for inclusive pedagogy, public education, and peace. New Yorker turned Hoosier. Mom of 3. (She/her or they)
Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social Patristics, texts & transmissions, ancient history.
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog
Emily Cain @ecainer.bsky.social Associate Professor of History of Christianity at LUC. Late Antiquity. Cats. Books. She/her/hers. 
Don Springer @donspringer.bsky.social Irenaeus ~ Christian Spirituality ~ Second Century
Tim Luckritz Marquis @tluckmarq.bsky.social Curriculum designer, professor, researcher.
Eric Vanden Eykel @evandeneykel.bsky.social Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Black Lives Matter. Views expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
he/him
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
Michael Kochenash @mkochenash.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow of Religious Studies at Washington & Jefferson College | pronounced "CAUTION-osh" | he/him
Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com Data Architect/Data Wrangler. Doer of ML/MT and AI thingies. Translator of Lexham Press' "Apostolic Fathers." Mastermind behind the "Lexham English Septuagint." Now working on Baylor Handbook for Shepherd of Hermas. He/Him.
web: https://rickbrannan.com
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
Ed Creedy @edcreedy.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR Fellow in Theology at Durham.
PhD in Classics from KCL. Interested in early Christianity, theatre and performance in the Greco-Roman world.
Amy Brown Hughes @amybrownhughes.bsky.social Historical theologian of early Christianity at Gordon College. Lover of all things ancient and all things geeky. Co-author: Christian Women in the Patristic World. Co-host of OnScript podcast.
Shawn J Wilhite @sjwilhite.bsky.social Some Patristics, some New Testament, some Early Christianity · PhD Durham University · Associate Professor at California Baptist University
#VeryAsian Dr. Sid Sudiacal (he/him/siya) 🇵🇭🇨🇦 @drsids.bsky.social Filipino Canadian scholar interested in the intersection of psychology, history, and theology.
Views are my own.
Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
@atpapanik.bsky.social @atpapanik.bsky.social 
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz @riccardiswartz.bsky.social assistant prof of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. first gen. book w/ Fordham University Press. current projects: trad futurisms/digital dissidents.
Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School
Author of “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” (2025)
www.candacelukasik.com
jack 🌹🇪🇺 @kyriakos.bsky.social PhD in Systematic Theology & Philosophy of Religion | Eastern Orthodox | Social Democrat
Aristomenis Papadimitriou @menios.bsky.social Historian & Director of Archives, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | Scholar of Religion in Modernity, Fordham University
Jordan @jdw11.bsky.social 
Aram Sarkisian @aramsark.bsky.social Historian of U.S. working-class religion. Author of "Orthodoxy on the Line" (NYU Press, 2025). He/Him. Music is the best. M Go Blue 🏆
Jacob Lassin @jacoblassin.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Air Command and Staff College in the Department of Joint Warfighting. Writing about Russian media and religion. All posts, reposts, and likes are my own and not a reflection of my employer.
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Regula M. Zwahlen @remaz.bsky.social Wissenschaftl. Leiterin "Forschungsstelle Sergij Bulgakov", Uni Fribourg ; Redakteurin "Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West" (RGOW)
Scientific Director "Sergij Bulgakov Research Center", Uni. of Fribourg; Journal Editor RGOW
Dr Andreja Bogdanovski @divinediplomacy.com Religion journalist & analyst covering Orthodox affairs, politics, and security.
Bylines: The Tablet, Church Times, Premier Christianity, Balkan Insight & others. Views are mine.
divinediplomacy.com
📍Edinburgh | Skopje
Gorgias Press @gorgiaspress.bsky.social Independent publisher of books and journals in history, languages, and religious studies, specifically Biblical Studies, Syriac and Eastern Christianity, Jewish Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. "Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge" since 2001!
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America @elpidophoros.goarch.org Official BlueSky account of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America | Αρχιεπίσκοπος Αμερικής, Ελπιδοφόρος
Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold (sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/city-black-gold) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
lancelogic @lancelogic.bsky.social Lived. Fretted. Sacrificed. Died anyway.
Sujit Thomas @sujithomas.bsky.social Malankara Orthodox Priest
rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social architecture + history // phd candidate researching the slavic midwest
Katherine Kelaidis @katiekelaidis.bsky.social Writer, traveler, dog-mom
Andreas @damaskinos.bsky.social Infallible takes on politics, religion, and more!
https://constantinoplemecca.com
Abu Seifein @hypostasis.bsky.social Phd *candidate* in historical theology. Amateur student of sci-fi. Leftist comrade. (Greek) Orthodox Christian. Straight/cis/sad
ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social he/him tradwife | catholic theology phd student | socialist | hate amerikkkan kkklantholicism
Stephen Hayes @hayesstw.bsky.social Orthodox deacon, author of intrusive fantasy books mainly for children, Inklings fan, missiologist, interested in theology & literature.
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
Laura Locke Estes @lblestes.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Pepperdine | writes on Syriac Christian exegesis, early Islam, and construction of religious identity
Joe Snell @joesnellreports.bsky.social 🌍 World news for The Washington Post. Assyrian. joseph.snell@washpost.com
Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social Scholar, late antiquity nerd, professor, and author of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover and Bishops in Flight https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bishops-in-flight/paper 
Hélène Rey @helenerey.bsky.social 🏺 Archaeology & Cultural Studies researcher, with a touch of Digital Humanities | King's College London & UCL IoA alumna
🔎 Cultural interactions in Mongol Eurasia (focus Syriac Christianity)
📚 Soon starting at @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social
🌐 helenerey.com
Anna Lefteratou @al3f.bsky.social Kefallonian; Later and Earlier Antiquity fan; Author of "The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven", OUP 2023
Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog.bsky.social Political analyst. Former assistant professor at RUDN Moscow. PhD in political science. Bylines in Euronews, Bloomberg, Novaya Gazeta and Radar. Views my own.
Laura Wilson @marylaurawilson.bsky.social PhD candidate at AHOS (historical theology, women in Byzantium), finish line June, 2026.
Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social Professor of philosophy, becoming a nun is not off the table yet
(not a Jesse Singal follower, you are welcome to check)
Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social historian of the Islamicate with @openiti.bsky.social; community food forest/garden organizer with @foodforestchatt.bsky.social. ☦ Christian, father, deep time delver. 🏴 anarcho-agrarian 🌻 upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌹
Michael Payne @mlawrencepayne.bsky.social Translator and historian | PhD from Brown University | Writing about al-Jāḥiẓ, animals, race, and enslavement | Interested in early Islam and late antique Christianity.
https://www.mlawrencepayne.com
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Claire Wilmot @clairelwilmot.bsky.social Journalist/writer/researcher | visiting postdoc fellow, London School of Economics | before: TBIJ, UofT | epistemology, tech, corruption, legal systems, gender.
https://www.instagram.com/clairelwilmot?igsh=MWl2dmJzYjY2YWh2Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German. Professor. GIF lover, Sci-fi fan. Getting better at remembering this app exists. More info: VerenaKrebs.com.
Public Orthodoxy @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social Public Orthodoxy is the primary public-facing initiative of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University, featuring editorials and video series on issues of importance for the Orthodox Christian world. PublicOrthodoxy.Org
James Hamrick @ancientbookshelf.bsky.social Dr. phil. in old/religious things, LMU Munich. Clinical social worker. Judaism, Christianity, Ge'ez, mental health, Buddhism. EMDR.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshamrick/
Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
Monica Mitri @monicamitri.bsky.social Egyptian, Coptic, PhD candidate in religion at USC. Dabbled in theology, business & literature. Love books and tea. https://usc.academia.edu/MonicaMitri
Dr John Plus Dr Mary @revdrjohn.bsky.social PhDs in history and theology of Jihad in Islam/Xnty in Syriac and Arabic and other topic, ex-academics, historical wargame designer and retiree. Our identities concealed due to threats and doxxing.
Madalina Toca @madalinatoca.bsky.social Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social Religious Studies prof., York University, Toronto; writes on Christian apocrypha
Jillian Marcantonio @jrmarcantonio.bsky.social I study late ancient theology and liturgical poetry, and I teach Christian history at Campbell University Divinity School. My posts are from my own perspective, often about things unrelated to my work.
Andrew Tucker @andrewtucker.bsky.social Christian, PhD from SLU, etc. Mostly basketball stuff.
Redescribing Christian Origins @redescribingxo.bsky.social Academic research group focused on early Christianity in its Mediterranean context.
Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies @eacclas.bsky.social Duke University
eacclas.duke.edu 
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity at Dublin City University. Writing about early Christian exegesis, exegetical culture, and notions of "home" in Christian Late Antiquity. she/her
Christoph Markschies @markschies.bsky.social ... beschäftigt sich nicht nur mit antikem Christentum
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami; Professorial Research Fellow @Universität Wien (2026–2028)
https://linktr.ee/robynfaithwalsh
http://robynfaithwalsh.com
David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas | Lecturer, KU | Who Is a New Christian? (Cambridge, 2024) | Bylines: Christian Century, Sojourners, Presby Outlook, Revealer
Mateusz Kusio @mateuszkusio.bsky.social @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social | earlier CRAC UW & @humboldtuni.bsky.social | DPhil @ox.ac.uk | Bible, Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity | http://bit.ly/3pIqAR9 | views own
Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
PLUR
IDIC
@kuleuventheology.bsky.social @kuleuventheology.bsky.social Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (KU Leuven, Belgium) - www.theology.be (English) /
Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen (KU Leuven) - www.theologie.be (Dutch)