Centre for Refugee Studies @crsyork.bsky.social CRS at York University is an interdisciplinary community of researchers dedicated to advancing the well-being of refugees and others displaced by violence, persecution, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation.
Dagmar Soennecken @dsoennec.bsky.social pub pol & law, refugee and migration prof, YorkU, Toronto, German, Canadian, editor-in-chief, Refuge: Canada‘s Journal on Refugees
Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social Researching and teaching refugee history.
No DMs, I'm afraid, please email me (easy to find).
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky 🗃
Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social Historian of transnational politics & religion between the US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, @histcatmex.bsky.social. Social Media Officer, @iehs.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie.
https://nathanellstrand.com/
Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social Labor and migration historian @UMaryland. Author of The Canal Builders and Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal. https://tinyurl.com/Pre-Order-Box-25
David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social Dyslexic diabetic. Eclectic philosopher and political theorist. Art and cricket lover. Artisan kimchi maker. Recovering poet. Fortunate man. Interested in all things human (and some non-human). Apparently now meant to add FBA to all social media profiles.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D. @jorgenleal.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside
Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian
| LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana...
https://www.jorgenicolasleal.com/
Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social Historian. Author of Unwanted (@UNC_Press). Current President of @IEHS.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social Founded in 1965, the IEHS promotes the study of immigration history through the Journal of American Ethnic History and professional/educational outreach.
https://iehs.org/
Maria Cristina Garcia @ithacamcg.bsky.social Historian of (im)migration at Cornell
San Antonio Spurs fan 🏀
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Katie Benton-Cohen, PhD @guprofbc.bsky.social aka Prof BC, kbc. it's me! i'm the problem it's me! , Georgetown University, Harvard UP, writing abt the Phelps-Dodge family & copper mining, rage-tweets "work-life balance" #momprof #immigrationhistory #Arizona
Elliott Young @elliottyoung.bsky.social Borderlands and Transnational Migration historian at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Expert witness for asylum. Tepoztlán Institute. Migration Scholar Collaborative. Stanford Migration & Asylum Lab. Author of Forever Prisoners, and Alien Nation.
Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India 
Adam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social 👨💻🚴🚆☕🌮🏳️🌈
Lifelong Michigander ✋. He/Him. Previously, co-founder + lead architect at https://duo.com/. Opinions are my own.
Adele Garnier @adelegarnier.bsky.social Professeure titulaire /Full Professor, Géographie, Université Laval. Coeditor of Refuge. Directrice du Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Sociétés (CELAT). Forced migration, temporary migration, multilevel governance.
sundeep @historysunny.bsky.social Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy 
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.
Dr. S. Deborah Kang @kangborderlaw.bsky.social Nau Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy
Author of The INS on the Line (Oxford, 2017)
Co-editor of Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States (UIP, 2025)
Washington, D.C. & Charlottesville, VA
Caroline Authaler @carolineauthaler.bsky.social Transregional History, Imperialism, African History, Migration, OWL, Cycling mum
Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto, Postdoc at UTokyo.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
Tina Shull @tinashull.bsky.social Associate Professor and public historian at UNC Charotte | Author of DETENTION EMPIRE | Carceral Studies, Climate Migration, Abolition | Creator, Climate Refugee Stories digital history project
Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Public & global health, rights, internationalism, migration, citizenship & statelessness, Modern & Eastern Europe. Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of History and Human Rights Institute. Views my own.
Jessica Wehner @jeswehner.bsky.social Modern History & Hist. Migration Research @UniOsnabrück/ @IMIS
Forced Migration & Displaced Persons Research;
History & Videogame Enthusiast
Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social I teach U.S. history & labor studies at a public university in California. First 40 years in the Midwest. Posting personal opinions about labor & migration history, worker organizing, higher ed policy, Midwest politics and regionalism. He/him.
Sebastian Huhn @sebastianhuhn.bsky.social Historian/ Political Scientist at Osnabrück University, IMIS, living in Hamburg.
Post-WW II history, Latin American history, refugees, migration, violence.
Current rersearch projects: https://www.nghm.uni-osnabrueck.de/negotiating_migration/projects.html
Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social Postdoc at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Interested in lodging houses, migration history and urban history.
Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social Lecturer & History Teacher
PhD (History) graduate
Assistant Editor @jich.bsky.social
Co-Editor @NCC journal
https://yiannicartledge.wordpress.com/
Closet horticulturalist: https://yiannischilli.blogspot.com/
Isabella Löhr (Loehr) @isabellaloehr.bsky.social historian of modern Europe, global and international history, migration and knowledge, international law, professor at FU Berlin and ZZF Potsdam
Connie Thomas @conniethomas.bsky.social Historian of early US migration politics & American identity
Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk
Comms @branchuk.bsky.social
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social Gender History & #CGI, #UniInnsbruck, Austria. Teaching & Research on 19th to 21st centuries, Migration History, Intersectionality, Biographies. SciComm. She/her or any pronoun.
(📷 M. Schmollgruber)
Claudia Roesch @claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social Historian at the University of Konstanz, working on 19th century transatlantic migration history,
Feminist, coffee addict, interested in gender, family, the history of knowledge, and utopian engineering
Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and author of 'Technology and the Historian' (Illinois, 2021).
Muireann McCann @muireannsmccann.bsky.social PhD from EUI History interested in 19thC Ireland, Paris, Rome, migration, Catholicism and revolution (She/her)
Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, focusing on race, ethnicity, and migration histories. University of Warwick. Education Officer for History UK. I don't actually wear glasses anymore and look much more tired since having kids, I need a new photo. (he/him)
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social Folklorist at Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, Norway. Migration history, folklore, childlore, netlore. She/her.
ida.tolgensbakk@norskfolkemuseum.no
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social prof at UNC
⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
Zeynep Ertugrul @zepertug.bsky.social SSC Postdoctoral Fellow - Columbia University
Intellectuals, propagandists - early republican Turkey
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Gavin Beinart-Smollan @beismo.bsky.social Public and digital historian. PhD candidate at NYU. Writing about Yiddish family letters and the Lithuanian Jewish diaspora. Very amateur genealogist.
Eureka Henrich @eurekahenrich.bsky.social Historian interested in all things 'm' (migration, museums, memory, material culture, medicine) and a few others too. Currently writing a history of migration and health in postwar Australia. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-eureka-henrich
Emma Waterton @emmawaterton.bsky.social Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York. Heritage, identity, memory and affect; migrant heritage-making; community engagements; climate justice in the Anthropocene. 
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Tim Causer @timcauser.bsky.social Principal Research Fellow, Bentham Project, @ucllaws.bsky.social Editing Bentham's works and correspondence. Historian of convict transportation and the Norfolk Island penal station.
Maggie Elmore @mjelmore.bsky.social Historian of migration, borders, and immigration policy. Also religion. Reluctant runner. Food person. Cat person. Dog person. Special needs advocate.
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
Ben Van Zee @benvanzee.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
Megan Maruschke @meganmaruschke.bsky.social global studies J-Prof Universität Leipzig | transimperial history of refugees and the mobile poor in Philadelphia (1780-1830) | global history of SEZs and free ports
Lauren Braun-Strumfels @braun-strumfels.bsky.social Transnational historian working at the intersection of Italian migration and US immigration policy. Author, Partners in Gatekeeping (UGA, 2023), coeditor and contributor, Managing Migration in Italy and the US (DeGruyter, 2024).
Assoc Prof, Cedar Crest
Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Sidelines in histories of Rochdale and of the Manchester Guardian. UCU Manchester equalities (disabilities) officer. Tired.
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
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.
Yuri Ramírez @ladrayuri.bsky.social Chicana historian of the modern
United States with specialties in migration, race, Latinxs, labor, and indigeneity | Assistant Prof of History at UIUC
Kasia Nowak @nowkasia.bsky.social Researching history of refugees and the Vatican in the early Cold War
www.katarzyna-nowak.com
Uni of Vienna
Lena Christoph @lenachristoph.bsky.social PhD @univie.ac.at
global, migration, and refugee history
she/her
Somdeep Sen @somdeepsen.bsky.social IR, race, settler colonialism, Palestine; Decolonizing Palestine @CornellUP; Globalizing Collateral Language @UofGeorgiaP
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social East Central European, Modern Jewish, and Human Rights History at Purdue U. Shofar journal. Bard, CEU Budapest, Columbia alumna. Displacement, Dispersion, Diaspora. coffee, black. 🖤🧿 #skystorians 🗃
Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics)
Book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Dec 2025) http://bit.ly/47BdTOH
Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
Alberto García Maldonado @albertogarcia17.bsky.social Historian of Mexico and Latin America -- Author of Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (UC Press) -- Associate Professor at San José State University
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).
Caroline Mezger @carolinemezger.bsky.social Historian & Associate Professor @EHESS in Paris | Group Leader of INFOCOM Project | World War II, National Socialism, Migration, Informal Communication | Currently writing a book on rumors 📚 🖋
Sarah Knoll @sarahmknoll.bsky.social Historian - Refugee Studies | Cold War | History of Austria | International organizations https://linktr.ee/SarahMKnoll
Jochen Lingelbach @jochenlingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy Historian of human mobility in East Africa, East-Central Europe and elsewhere // author of On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial […]
[bridged from https://h-net.social/@JochenLingelba1 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social Historian of Yugoslavia in global context. Urban Planning, migration, maritime transportation. Believer in speaking out for/amplifying the silenced. she/her.
Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Book: “Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe.” I write and teach about the historical political economy of migration, conflict, and state building. http://charnysh.net/
Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history, labour history @ the ANU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-2419
Renée Carl @easteuromutt.bsky.social Professional Genealogist. Backyard gardener. Swimmer. Advocating for access to 20thC Immigration records at RecordsNotRevenue.com and occasionally blogging at EasternEuropeanMutt.com. most importantly: https://fundnara.com/
Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social Anthropologist working on #migration, #inequality and #religion, regional focus on #Kenya and #Somalia; Uni Bayreuth & MPI for Social Anthropology, Editorial Board 'Comparative Migration Studies', https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tabea-Scharrer
Jan-Philip Steinmann @jpsteinmann.bsky.social PostDoc | Sociologist | @KFN | @FGZ | Social inequalities | Migration and integration | Right-wing populism | Deviant behavior | Religion
https://www.jan-philip-steinmann.com/
Chloé Lavest @chlolv.bsky.social Studies Perceptions of Discrimination and the Integration Paradox in European Societies | PhD Candidate | Utrecht University | she/her | https://chlolv.github.io/chloelavest/
Gülce Şafak Özdemir @gulceozdemir.bsky.social MSCA Fellow, Executive Committee member and Co-chair of Immigration Network of @CES_Europe
Focused on irregular migrants, intersectionality & public policy
Anuj @annuj.bsky.social Scripting migration tales
Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social Siya|she|her | Sociologist @Fordham AAST | Research: US immigration,🇵🇭s &🇵🇭 🇺🇸s, legal status | IG: drdanielapila | danielapila.com | Founder of Pamana https://pamanallc.com/
Dr. Daniela Dimitrova @profdimitrova.bsky.social University Professor & Editor-in-Chief of @JMCQuarterly.bsky.social. ✍️ Global journalism. 🌎 Political news reporting. 🧐 Refugee communications. ☕️ and 🍫. *NB: Views my own.
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Eveline Reisenauer @evelinereisenauer.bsky.social Sociologist | Migration | Transnationalisation | Family | Childhood and Youth | Qualitative Methods
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social A Latin American woman lost in the UK.
British Academy Research Fellow @ University of Southampton. #Racial Politics of #ForcedDisplacement in #LatinAmerica
Kathie Friedman-Kasaba @kathiefriedman.bsky.social Immigration & Refugee Studies, Jackson School, UW Emerita, “The Lucky Escape: What Happens When International Humanitarianism Fails” in Care in a Time of Humanitarianism (2024). Cooking, mysteries, cats, and Detroit
juliette saetre @juliettes.bsky.social Research Fellow @iast.fr (TSE), PhD from EUI.
Working on networks, migration and political behaviour.
https://www.juliettesaetre.com/ 🌞
Rickard Olseke @migration.se Independent Expert on European migration and asylum policy – based in Stockholm 🇸🇪
More at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickardolseke
Oliviero Angeli @olivieroangeli.bsky.social Political Scientist at the TU Dresden and coordinator at MIDEM. Working mainly on migration-related issues. Views my own.
Bradley Hillier-Smith @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social Philosopher and teacher in moral, legal, and political philosophy at St Andrews.
Author of The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees.
Charity worker. Political campaigner. Drummer.
Website: https://www.bradleyhilliersmith.com/
Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social Senior researcher in political science, SIEPS Sweden. Migration & asylum expert (EU, Sweden, Germany). External lecturer, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
Marcus Nicolson @mnicolson.bsky.social Post-Doc Researcher: Bolzano, 🇮🇹. From Shetland!
Interests:
- Migration politics, narratives, ontological security, borders, minorities, identities, ultracycling
Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social Researching migration, borders, refugee camps, immigration detention, violence, trauma, death / Ethnography / Zemiology
📓 Author: Border Harms and Everyday Violence. A Prison Island in Europe (2023, Bristol University Press).
📍 UK & Greece
Jan Schaller @janschaller.bsky.social Migration Studies. PhD Candidate at University of Osnabrück. Researcher at University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz. Cottbuser.
Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics at University of Colorado. I study immigration, the safety net, and inequality
Affiliated with Hamilton Project at Brookings, NBER, IRP, IZA, United Campus Workers Colorado
https://www.chloeneast.com
Opinions my own