Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social Studying the internet, technology, security, conflict, authoritarianism. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her.
Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
Erica De Bruin @edebruin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Researching political violence & the inner workings of dictatorships
https://felixhaass.de/
Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy
Lucan Ahmad Way @lucanway.bsky.social Polisci Prof U Toronto. Study democracy/dictatorship & Ukraine. Books: Revolution & Dictatorship (PUP 2022); Pluralism by Default (JHUP 2015); Competitive Authoritarianism (CUP 2010)
Tore Wig @torewig.bsky.social Political Science Professor at University of Oslo. Working on political violence, war, democracy and autocracy. Visiting 24-25 Nuffield College & DPIR Oxford University.
Dr. Salah Ben Hammou @salahbhpolisci.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate for the Center of the Middle East at Rice University's Baker Institute of Public Policy.
Former USIP Peace Scholar.
Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida.
www.salahbenhammou.com
Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social Political science professor, University of Oslo; Research group leader, CIR group; Researcher, PRIO; co-PI, V-Dem
Mariëlle Wijermars @mariellew.bsky.social Associate Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University | Digital interdependence and autonomy | Platform governance | Internet censorship
Member of The Young Academy (KNAW)
Academic editor @policyr.bsky.social
Dan Slater @dnsltr.bsky.social James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Emerging Democracies @ University of Michigan (@umichDemocracy). SE Asia, authoritarianism, democracy, history. Personal heroes include Thomas Mann, Michael Mann, & Aimee Mann.
Christine Lu🧋 @christinelu.com Taiwanese American founder & investor in a number of things at the early stage.
AA Bastian 卞曉菁 | باستيان @aabastian.com Freelance Journalist, Professional Interpreter @ForeignPolicy, Journal of Burma Studies, Honorable Mention “Japanese Carp”-75th Writers Digest Competition, https://aabastian.com
Rep'd by Amy Collins: The Dispatch: Rogue Americans in 19th C British Asia
Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
@rizwangvl.bsky.social @rizwangvl.bsky.social 
Ablimit Baki Elterish @dos3ab.bsky.social 
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
mayawang.bsky.social @mayawang.bsky.social Deputy Asia director @hrw. Also distinguished fellow @asu_ldns. Email me: wangm(at)hrw(dot)org.
Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Tampa, PhD UCLA, Author of The Concrete Plateau, Cornell UP 2022, Living the subtropical dream/nightmare
Andrew Fischer @andrewmfischer.bsky.social Prof at Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Chair of Development and Change @devandchg.bsky.social, Canuck in Europe.
Working on development economics, demography & social policy, Tibet & western China. Wrote Poverty as Ideology (2018) & other stuff.
Emily Upson @emilyupson.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Newcastle University: Transnational Advocacy Networks for Uyghur human rights. Also Amnesty UK, ACLS, drinking coffee.
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/our-people/profile/eupson2.html
James Leibold @jleibold.bsky.social Professor of politics and Asian studies, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social Religion, gender, politics in transnational Asia @utoronto.ca｜ @shichapodcast.bsky.social 時差 cohost |🐻JAAR @aarweb.bsky.social Book Review Editor |🐻 AAS @asianstudies.org DEC rep. https://ting902.com/
Abdürreşit C. Karluk/ئابدۇررەشىد جەلىل قارلۇق @kasgarlikarluk.bsky.social Professor of Sociology&Chinese Studies @iibf_ahbv, Visiting Scholar @unisqaus, @sheffielduni.
Interested in China Studies, Uyghur Genocide, Sino-Turkic relations, Ethnicity, Assimilation. Editor in Chief of @daadtr. RT Doğruluğunu değil, ilgiyi gösterir.
Andrew chubb @zhubochubo.bsky.social 
With Chinese Characteristics @cchara.bsky.social A podcast by Cherrie and Natalie about chinese history and other stuff. Trying to have fun with it but results may vary.
https://www.withchinesecharacteristics.com/
angelazito @angelazito.bsky.social anthropologist filmmaker on the left, dislikes prisons, into religion and media, follows all things chinese and #feldenkrais #AcademicSky she/her
Rereading the Stone (Podcast) @rereadingstone.bsky.social a podcast by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
& William Jones on Chinese literature, poetry, & philosophy, currently: Qing dynasty classic Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢 #石頭記
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1269965
Jonathan Henshaw @henshaw.bsky.social Historian of Modern China • War • Occupation • Commemoration • Translation • 🍁
https://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation
Matthew W. Mosca @matthewmosca.bsky.social Historian of early modern China and the world.- F François Godement @fgodement.bsky.social Historian, Special Advisor Asia & America @i_montaigne, non-resident Senior Fellow @CarnegieEndow until February 2025, #China and in spite of the above attempts at humour.
Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social At some point I'll start posting useful stuff here. Maybe.
History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism 🗃️
Yingyao Wang @yingyaowang.bsky.social Associate Prof @UVASociology. works on bureaucracy, state/market relations, and political economy of China. Author of Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics.
Fei Yan @feiyansoc.bsky.social Political sociology, historical sociology, and modern Chinese history
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Weirong Guo @weirongguo.bsky.social Sociologist of culture, politics, migration & global China. Assistant professor of teaching at UC Riverside. Former postdocs at Harvard University & UPenn. PhD from Emory.
Website: www.weirongguo.com
Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA. 23-24 Fellow at Wiko Berlin. Author of The Politics of Compassion(2017, Stanford), Chairman Mao's Children(2021, Cambridge), The Culture of Democracy (2022, Polity)
Personal Website: www.binxu.net
fu, zheng @fuzheng.bsky.social PRODIG + Fellow in Critical AI @ Stony Brook University; phd @ columbia sociology. interested in power, STS, economic sociology, classification struggles.
Personal website: https://fuzheng10.github.io/
very importantly, also a foodie.
Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士 @coralinglingxu.bsky.social Author: The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social
Asso Prof @durham-university.bsky.social Exec Editor @bjse.bsky.social; Director @chiedmobilities.bsky.social; Soc of time, Bourdieu, China; https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Time-Inheritors
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Siqi Tu @siqitu.bsky.social Researcher in migration and mobility, diasporic communities, transnational elite education, political economy of global cities, community development, and Global China.
https://siqitu.com/
I repost randomly...
Juan Wang @juanw.bsky.social Political Scientist at McGill. China, the state, communism, money, and discipline. 
Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
Jun (Philip) Fang @philipjfang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto | Culture, creativity, globalization, censorship, ethnography | Book on China & Hollywood in progress | philipjunfang.com
Zoe Zhao @zoezhao.bsky.social Research and teach tech, labor and social movements at 🍌𓆑. Neurodiverse 🌶️ and politically depressed organizer/gamer.
https://www.zoezhao.me/
Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social phd candidate in sociology at University of Michigan political economy, gender, technology, labor, theory
Mellon/ACLS dissertation innovation fellow
she/they/cat person
Zitian Sun @zstheunemployedphd.bsky.social Ph.D Candidate at McGill University
Ph.D. McGill, Department of Sociology
M.A. NYU, Department of Politics
M.A. AU, School of International Services
B.A. AU, School of International Services
Wei Zhou @weizhou.bsky.social phding at uchicago sociology
infrastructure, energy, China & Global Capitalism
theweizhou.github.io
Jing Wang @jingwang.bsky.social Assistant Prof, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison; New academic mom; Feminist
Co-Founder 结绳志 https://tyingknots.net
Website: https://www.jing-wang.net/
#GlobalMedia #GlobalComm #GlobalChina #China #Anthropology #Wisconsin #Madison
Kecheng @fangkc.bsky.social Teaching and Researching Journalism @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong- Z Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Hunter College-CUNY, PhD from Northwestern. Development, labor, land, China, Vietnam. http://zhihangruan.com
AAAS Social Science Caucus @aaas-socsci.bsky.social We are the Social Science Caucus under the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aaas-socsci/home
Licheng Qian @lichengqian.bsky.social Lecturer at Birmingham City University, UK | PhD from University of Virginia | Cultural/Historical/Political/Global Sociology, Memory, China, East Asia
Jing Xu @jing-xu.bsky.social Anthropologist & author of "The Good Child" (Stanford U Press 2017) & " 'Unruly' Children" (Cambridge U Press, 2024): China, child development, culture & cognition, morality, education, family
https://sites.google.com/view/jingxu/home
Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social Philosophy. Political Theory. Comparative Politics. Law. https://philpeople.org/profiles/yao-lin-1/publications
Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social Professor of Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University. Posts are my personal views. 
Simon S. Luo @simonluo.bsky.social Teaches political theory at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, Nanyang Technological University
website: simonsihangluo.com
Shoufu Yin @shoufuyin.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/shoufuyin/home
Jing Wang @jingwangnyu.bsky.social AP@NYUShanghai, Communication, Political economy, Sociology of finance, China studies
Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex.bsky.social Political Scientist at Peking University. Author of Rethinking Political Meritocracy (http://bit.ly/3Qqh0CP) and Localized Bargaining (bit.ly/Rail_Ma).
Tu Lan @lan-tu.bsky.social Economic geographer @UNH.
Kevin Wei Luo @kevinweiluo.bsky.social assistant professor of political science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. China / Taiwan / Asia, politics of state building. usual caveats. 中英俱劣. https://www.kevinweiluo.com/
Ruiyi Li @ruiyili.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher @ Duke Kunshan University
I use qualitative and quantitative methods to study transnational education, youth, elite, social mobility in China.
https://ruiyili.net ➡️teaching &learning/research update
Yanze Yu @yanze-yu.bsky.social PhD student @ColumbiaSoc ; MA @MichiganChina ; BA @FudanUniversity
I study medicine, political economy, and science, knowledge & technology.
Interested in tics, ADHD, rare diseases, long COVID...
Profile: https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/yanze-yu
Julie Radomski @julieradomski.bsky.social Postdoc at Boston University Global Development Policy Center
@gdp-center • Global China, political economy of development in Latin America, critical geography • also, dogs
Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine.bsky.social Political Theorist. KCL. Comparative Political Theory. Ancient Chinese Political Thought. From Lebanon.
Chi Zhang @chizhang.bsky.social Assistant Professor, The University of Warwick
Frieder Dengler @friederdengler.bsky.social On the job market | PhD in International Relations from @ausis.bsky.social | USIP Peace Scholar 2023-24 | I research international order, global governance, and global historical IR | www.friederdengler.com | 🇩🇪
Jean Dong @jeandong.bsky.social Asia Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Author of Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World (Springer 2023)
Jeandong@hks.harvard.edu
Jingyun Dai @daijingyun.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate at Harvard. Higher education, class and gender inequality, cultural sociology, qualitative methods. Writing on student experiences and aspirations at elite universities in China.
Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social PhD candidate & Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology @UAlbany; Pre-doctoral fellow @CCSYale; ACRH @UniMelb; Research Interests: gender & migration, race & ethnicity, culture, theory https://qingttliu.com
Xinyan Cao @xcao.bsky.social 曹欣言 Sociology PhD @ Brown University. UW-Madison alum. I study child health, gender inequalities, & work-family conflicts. Also Joyce!
https://xcao-joyce.github.io
Dr. Jingsi Christina Wu @drjcw.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies at Hofstra University
Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
Simone Zhang @sxz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. Classification, prediction, and AI in decision-making, social policy, and law.
www.simonezhang.com
Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/
Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist
www.kaipingchen.com
Stephen R. Platt @stephenplatt.bsky.social Historian. Books include Imperial Twilight (Knopf, 2018) and Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Knopf, 2012). New book: The Raider (Knopf, 2025). https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618088/the-raider-by-stephen-r-platt/
Jean Hong 洪知延 홍지연 @jeanhong.bsky.social keep calm and post academic stuff. working @umich. formerly @HKUST. study authoritarian politics and legacy. East Asia. https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/jeanhong
Shengqiao Lin | 林声巧 @linshengqiao.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Toronto | State-Business Relations, Industrial Policy, China | #FirstGen | www.shengqiaolin.com
Linette Lim @linettelim.bsky.social PhD candidate at University College Dublin. Interested in authoritarianism, media control, & nationalism. Former journalist with a stint as a 互联网打工人
https://linettelim.com/
Zhiqin Gao @zhiqingao.bsky.social PhD candidate in Political Science @The Ohio State University | IR theory, int’l security, pol psych, foreign policy
Josh Zhang @dryzhang.bsky.social Computational sociologist. Yongjunzhang.com
Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social Historian, Teacher, and Traveler; Author of "World History and National Identity in China" (CambridgeUP, 2021) & "Global history in China" (Palgrave 2024).
Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social Head of Chinese Section, under Research Collections Directorate at Cambridge University Library. Senior member of Robinson College. Views my own.
Yan Wang @ywangsoc.bsky.social Assist Prof in Social Statistics @University of Manchester, PhD from @LSE. Research on public opinion and political communication, social policy and redistribution, state politics and governance.
Wenqi Yang @wenqiyang.bsky.social Researcher of domestic violence and obstetric violence experienced by Chinese and Chinese immigrant populations in the US @Wake Forest.
Siying Fu @siyingfu.bsky.social Sociology PhD candidate @ UW-Madison. Comparative-historical analysis; Democratization; Soc of elites; China
📍Beijing➡️📍Madison➡️📍Boston
Belinda Qian He @belindahe.bsky.social Film and media scholar
Assistant Professor in East Asian and Cinema & Media studies at the University of Maryland College Park
Wei-chieh Tsai @weictsai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at National Chung Cheng University | Inner Asia, Central Eurasia, Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet & Xinjiang | President of Taiwan Society for Inner Eurasian Studies
https://ccu-tw.academia.edu/WeichiehTsai
Jingyan Elaine Yuan @elainejyuan.bsky.social Professor, communication, U of Illinois Chicago
Zheng Zhang @soczzhang.bsky.social PhD @UWSoc. Comp hist sociologist studying socialism, revolution, collective memory. I study Maoism as a non-Maoist.
Man-yee Kan @manyeekan.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk @sociologyoxford.bsky.social
GenTime, ERC project.
Research on gender inequalities, time use, migration & ethnicity.
Yan Long @yanlong-soc.bsky.social Sociologists, UC Berkeley, studying authoritarian politics, health, digital technology, civic action, gender, sexuality & global China.
Author of Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China (Oxford)
Bolun Zhang @coolsteed.bsky.social Sociologist interested in boring things. Advanced amateur in Arabic and coding.
https://www.bolunzhang.com/
See Pok Loa @seepokloa.bsky.social Sociologist and Lecturer UniofLeicester School of Management | PhD Oxford Sociology | work culture, freelancing, global gig work, labour time | Former startup creative🧑🏻💻