Department of Political Science @ UPenn @pennpolitics.bsky.social News, research, and events from Penn's Department of Political Science: faculty & student achievements, publications, and job opportunities for our community.
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
ASA DH Caucus @asadhcaucus.bsky.social Founded in 2009, the Digital Humanities (DH) Caucus works to support the study of digital research and teaching within an American studies framework. https://theasa.net/communities/caucuses/digital-humanities-caucus
Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) @ccehum.bsky.social Digital Humanities centre @unicologne.bsky.social
Daniel Alves @danielalvesfcsh.bsky.social Associate Professor NOVA FCSH Lisbon 19th Century History Urban History Digital History Digital Humanities Editor IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities
Rahul Mukherjee @rahmuk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Penn CIMS. Wrote "Radiant Infrastructures" (DUP, 2020). Just completed "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT, 2026)." Platforms, Energy, Environment
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.
Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
halperta.com
Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social The Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania has fostered research and training in population since its founding in 1962 and is led by Director Emilio Alberto Parrado.
HASTAC @hastac.bsky.social An alliance and open community dedicated to Changing the Way We Teach and Learn. Affiliates of @cuny.edu and @futuresed.bsky.social. Join us! https://hastac.hcommons.org/
John Russell @johnruss28.bsky.social Associate librarian at Penn State, associate director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies
Alex Wermer-Colan @alexwermercolan.bsky.social writer, editor, dramaturg, translator | academic director of @tudigitalscholars.bsky.social, executive director @phillywireless.bsky.social, managing editor @proghist.bsky.social
Rachel Hogan @rnhogan.bsky.social Instruction & Research Librarian for the Arts & Digital Humanities @ William & Mary Libraries. Passionate about dh in and out of the library, arts-based research, academic librarianship, information literacy, medievalisms, arthurian lit, and victorian lit
Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social Working to make higher ed more equitable & joyful. Obsessed w/ fungi. Books: Unexpected Flourishing (2026), Presence of Absence (2024), Putting Humanities PhD to Work (2020). She/her
President, NYC District 15 Community Education Council // opinions mine
Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects @ ISAW Library | prev. Quantitative Criticism Lab (UT-Austin) & Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab (Harvard) | Fordham PhD, #Classics | #DigiClass, #Latin, #Greek | LatinCy dev, CLTK contrib | #Python
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Nat McGartland @natmcgartland.bsky.social PhDing @ UMD English
HBIC @UMDBookLab
book history, STS, digital studies
linktr.ee/natmcgartland
Wheatley Census @wheatleycensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects before 1909. Directed by @jsench.bsky.social & @brigfield.bsky.social. www.wheatleycensus.org
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
@dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social 
The Free Library of Philadelphia @freelibrary.bsky.social 
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social US historian at Boston College. Author of CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (Penn Press, 2025): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
Brian Croxall @briancroxall.bsky.social How to do things with words and computers. Assoc. Prof of Digital Humanities at BYU. Formerly at Twitter, ProfHacker, ello, and The Aquabats.
Photo by https://instagram.com/marktwhitney/.
Andrea McCrary (she/her) @amccrary.bsky.social NC writing prof, LGBTQ ally, Appalachian, parent, writer, creator. I speak only for myself--mostly rhetoric, justice, politics, power, intersectional feminism, teaching.
#TeamRhetoric #FirstGenDocs
Colleen Macklin @colleenmacklin.bsky.social Prof @ Parsons NYC, game designer, lapsed bagpipe player. Colleenmacklin.com
Black Digital Humanities Lab @blackdigitalhumanities.com The Black Digital Humanities Lab, based at Jackson State University and University of Toronto, works alongside students to explore the intersection between technology and Black history.
Visit blackdigitalhumanities.com to learn more about our work.
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.
UTSA TBDH @transborderdh.bsky.social Welcome to the TBDH community! We are dedicated to fostering collaboration across borders to promote innovative scholarship. #BorderlandsDH 
Lauren Cooper @laurencooper.bsky.social Community Archivist & Digital Scholarship Librarian, PSU Special Collections / Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations 2024-2027 / Admin & Tech Advisor, Ex Officio, Center for Black Digital Research # DigBlk.psu.edu / HowardZinn.org Digital Curator
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles @crcversailles.bsky.social Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social A digital humanities project documenting the history of performance in 18th-century London. Visit the database at https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social Makeademic. Associate Director of Digital Research in the Humanities at Price Lab for Digital Humanities @Penn #DHMakes. she/her
http://emilyfbrooks.com
Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social 🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling
https://humap.me/
#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
Penn Creative Writing Program @penncw.bsky.social Official account for the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania
The False Image of History Project @falseimage.bsky.social A digital humanities research group at @upenn.bsky.social looking at 19th-20th c. Black Press responses to Confederate commemoration. Created by Prof. Donovan Schaefer & students Olivia Haynie & Justin Seward. No AI.
https://falseimage.pennds.org/
Boston Digital Humanities @bostondh.bsky.social https://bostondh.org/
Institutions and individuals in New England committed to the collaborative development of teaching, learning, and scholarship in the digital humanities and computational social sciences. 
Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social The CDSC supports the growth and development of digital humanities scholarship for the Caribbean and its diasporas.
linktr.ee/cdscollective
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania @pennmindcore.bsky.social Mind Center for Outreach, Research & Education - Penn's hub for the integrative study of the mind. 
@dh-at-tufts.bsky.social @dh-at-tufts.bsky.social 
Penn Arts & Sciences @sas.upenn.edu The School of Arts & Sciences is the heart of Penn. Learn about events, news and get involved in the conversation by following us!
https://www.sas.upenn.edu
Visit our online publication, Omnia Magazine: https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/
John Ladd @jrladd.com Assistant Prof @ Washington & Jefferson CIS
Data science, cultural analytics, network analysis, early modern lit, birds
jrladd.com
Center for Digital Visual Studies - Max Planck Society @UZH @dvstudies.bsky.social The Center for Digital Visual Studies (DVS) is an innovative interdisciplinary laboratory exploring the intersection of Computer Science and Art History, a part of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History – hosted at the UZH (CH)
Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
https://linktr.ee/moyabailey 
TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php- D David McClure @dclure.bsky.social
Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social DouglassDay.org | #DouglassDay
Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. A day of love and collective action for Black history & archives!
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Professor, probably thinking about emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. 
Print and Probability Project @print-and-prob.bsky.social developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social Cultural Analytics is an open-access journal at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, and computer science dedicated to the computational study of culture. https://culturalanalytics.org
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Roberto Vargas @betovargas.github.io Librarian @ Swarthmore College. No technology is "here to stay."
Your are not stuck in traffic, YOU are traffic...
https://betovargas.github.io/
Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social Collecting data about stories. Telling stories with data.
Book: Shakespeare and Scale
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/25sentkx
Cambridge UP: https://tinyurl.com/287ff98p
Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe @lisalibrarian.bsky.social 
Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
DH Awards @dhawards.bsky.social #DH Awards are a set of annual awards with no prizes where the general public is able to nominate and vote on #DigitalHumanities resources for awareness of resources in the digital humanities community.
See http://dhawards.org/ for more.
Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social The CCP is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more.
Posting a new series on July 4-6: What to the Colored Conventions is the Declaration of Independence?
ColoredConventions.org
Dr. Jennifer Guiliano @jenguiliano.bsky.social studies American history, sports mascots, and digital stuff. Fulbright Scholar. author of Indian Spectacle; Primer for Teaching Digital History; and more.
Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com PhD student, info sci at UIUC. DH research–NLP, AI, cultural analytics
Lecturer @ Berkeley (Python for DH)
Interests: place studies, activist histories, US lit, creative writing, rhet/comp: https://matthewkollmer.com
Owner @ https://eveninglandbooks.com
Ethan Watrall @ethanwatrall.bsky.social - F Susan Garfinkel @footnotesrising.bsky.social digital humanities, american studies, material culture & vernacular architecture, early american history, libraries & museums. learning yiddish. president of my union, guild2910.org. tweets my own.
bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social cultural big data, #digitalhumanities, HuNI http://huni.net.au Has Anyone Seen A Woman? http://vimeo.com/144863312
#academicsky
#feministsky
Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social Head of Student Programs, @scholarslab. DH, pedagogy, videogames. Co-VP @ach.bsky.social.
_Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change_ is out and OA! https://buff.ly/kQau5oV
More info at walshbr.com.- S @saravarney.bsky.social @saravarney.bsky.social
Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue @lyndamk.bsky.social Director of data & digital scholarship at an ivy league univ | organizing a bunch of #data rescuers @datarescueproject.org | support #qualitative research & software | PhD in American history | thoughts are mine not my employer’s
RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media leverages technology to democratize history.
https://rrchnm.org/
Jeffrey McClurken @jmcclurken.bsky.social Chief of Staff, VP of Strategy & Prof of History/AMST @UMW. Digital History Reviews Ed for JAH (Former Dept Chair & Spec Asst to the Provost). 
GeorgeOnline @georgeonline.bsky.social Teacher, Reader, Writer. Digital Humanities. Public Humanities. Applied Humanities. Disability Studies. I am an exhausted pigeon… #AshevilleNC
Natalie M. Houston @nmhouston.bsky.social Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social Senior Director of Engagement Strategy (@modernlanguage.bsky.social). #HuMetricsHSS. Former: @SSRC_mtp, @NEH_ODH, @UMD_MITH, PhD English (UMD), #altac. Opinions mine.
Disco Stuart Hall aka Foucauldian Funk (ABD). @kurosarakokuou.bsky.social History PhD candidate researching the appropriation of urban subcultures. HNIC of Rotating Souls Records. Afrofuturist DJ. Kurosarakokuou on socials. Founder of Krog Codex Graffiti Digital Archive. @krogcodexofficial.bsky.social
Krogcodex.org
Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social Literary scholar/digital humanities/Black studies, sheep herder, owner of big fluffy Pyrenees who guard said sheep. Descended from a long line of dissenters-Quakers, Mennonites, Bretherns. Current project is uncovering the Millican Massacres of 1868 (tx).
Stephen Robertson @srober30.bsky.social Professor of History at George Mason University; co-creator of Digital Harlem; author of Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, https://harlemindisorder.org;
https://drstephenrobertson.com
Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP
Rachel Wilson @rachcwils.bsky.social English PhD @ Univ. of Michigan studying contemporary lit, everyday readers, print culture & digital media
otherwise usually cooking, petting cats, making pottery or knitting
@kamilaaugustyn.bsky.social @kamilaaugustyn.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Wrocław, literary scholar, avid listener, metascientist, obsessed with publishing studies
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social Book history, Shakespeare etc. Views my own, not my employer's. Header is: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
Brian Maass @brianmaass.com Librarian, maker, tech enthusiast, design thinker...I'm trying...
Proud to support research data efforts at a great academic medical center (that I don't speak for)
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
@jvinopal.bsky.social @jvinopal.bsky.social racism, capitalism, and greed are the problem.
Don’t expect so see much of me here. I’ve mostly stopped using social media.
#blacklivesmatter🏳️🌈 #translivesmatter🏳️⚧️ She/her/hers.
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
ashleychampagne.bsky.social @ashleychampagne.bsky.social Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library. Interested in digital humanities, data ethics, AI & Humanities and libraries! New here :)
Brie Gettleson @briemarina.bsky.social Latin American Studies bibliotecaria @Penn interested in contemporary political ephemera, post-custodial digital archival collaboration, Central America, and pictures of cute animals. she/ella/ela
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
Noreasontopretend.com
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu