BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social Staraí/Scríbhneoir/Taighdeoir - Historian/Writer/Researcher
19th c. US history; Fenianism; Irish language in the US; Irish folklore
Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social The Irish Studies program at Boston College offers a richly interdisciplinary study of Irish and Irish-American culture, history, and society.
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/morrissey/sites/irish.html
Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026).
https://glaucoschettini.com
Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
Becca Palmer @beccapalmer99.bsky.social Research Officer @LSE | History of ideas, print culture, & early America | Seminar convenor at the IHR
Meg E. Roberts @megeroberts.bsky.social Historian. Postdoc @ Edinburgh, PhD @ Cambridge. Writing about caregiving labour and health crises in c18th Philadelphia. Usually thinking about early modern nurses, apothecaries, or public transit systems. 🚃
Matthew Mason @matthewmason.bsky.social Historian of the politics of slavery
Ursula Hackett @uhackett.bsky.social Reader in Politics | Churchill Associate Professor in U.S. Politics at the University of Oxford (from Sep 1)| Author of America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State
Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social The RAI is a Department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. Check out our podcast, The Last Best Hope with our Director, Professor Adam Smith!
https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
Faculty of History, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/home
Jesus College Oxford @jesusoxford.bsky.social Official account of Jesus College at the University of Oxford.
www.jesus.ox.ac.uk
Jonathan Earle @jonearle.bsky.social Academic administrator, U.S. Historian. Dogs, New Orleans, politics. Views are my own. Enjoy every sandwich!
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
SHEAR @shearites.bsky.social The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is dedicated to exploring US history from 1776-1861.
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social Economic historian at UL. Author of 'The Irish Department of Finance, 1959-1999' and 'Policy Failures and the Irish Economic Crisis'.
Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social This Interim Time out with Lilliput Press May '25. Assoc Prof at Maynooth University. 
Tim Murtagh @timvrti.bsky.social Research Fellow with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Based at Trinity College Dublin/PRONI
Historian of 18th/19th century Britain and Ireland.
Author of 'Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820' (Liverpool Uni Press, 2023)
Sarah R. Meiners, PhD @srmeiners.bsky.social Assistant Professor at James Madison University // Historian of US refugee policy in the US empire, 1975 - present // also writing about unaccompanied minors at Guantánamo
Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.
Gale Kenny @galekenny.bsky.social Historian of US religion // knitter // author of Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire (NYU Press)
Kaete O'Connell @kaeteoc.bsky.social Historian of Food & Foreign Relations | #SHAFR Deputy Director | Senior Fellow @cphatsmu.bsky.social
Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social 
Lauren Davis Jarnach @laurenjarnach.bsky.social History DPhil at the University of Oxford
19th-century state constitutions
Documentary Editor at the Quill Project
https://faircopy.substack.com/
Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social Historian of American religion in the c19 and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Oxford University.
Author of 'Christ, Church, and Country: Home Missions and the Religious Reconstruction of the United States After the Civil War' (UVA; out December 2026)
Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.com
Pat McDevitt @pfmcdevitt.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, British empire, famine, gender & sport• NJ expat• mediocre bassist• WHU, NYK, Liberty, NYY• Assoc. Dean of UGE & Honors College @ UBuffalo
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle" - Orwell
Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social 
Ben Bankhurst @benbankhurst.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Appalachian Studies, Early America, 18th/ C. Irish and British History.
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Karst de Jong @karstdejong.bsky.social Historian of the Irish in the Caribbean. Volunteer bookseller. 
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Heart of American Darkness, Tyrants & Rogues. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
Rich Condon @richcondon.bsky.social | Historian | Researcher | Writer | Yinzer |
*Opinions shared here are my own*
Thomas Leahy @thomasdmleahy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer British/Irish Politics & Contemporary History, Cardiff Uni. Research Irish Republicanism, Irish Gov & conflict legacy. Also have RR Multiple Sclerosis and Cardiff/Vale MS Society group organiser. Mavenclad since 2025. Views own.
Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social Co-editor, The Colored Conventions Movement (2021). Writing a history of editing and editors. Making our way at the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, Early Black Press Project, and the Coalition for Black Digital Research.
Professor Mac @bryanmcgovern.bsky.social Liverpool, Notre Dame, Bengals fan. Historian focusing on Irish/Irish-American History. Bourbon, wine, and craft beer. YNWA
Irish Humanities Alliance @irishhumanities.bsky.social A joint initiative of humanities researchers within universities across the island of Ireland.
Based @ria.ie
Posts by IHA coordinator @sonjatiernan.bsky.social
www.irishhumanities.ie
Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social Glucksman Ireland House is the center for Irish and Irish-American Studies at New York University.
Register for our fall 2025 events here: https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/irelandhouse/events/fall-20250.html
Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Pratt Fellow in History, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Author of Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars (McGill-Queen's, 2027).
Previously a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences is the national committee for history in Ireland.
Further details: http://www.historians.ie/
Erin Shearer @erinshearer.bsky.social Historian of slavery, resistance, and gender.
Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute; Associate Tutor at Oxford Lifelong Learning; Associate Tutor at the University of Warwick.
Aisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the antebellum South, Broadbent Career Development Fellow in American History at the Rothermere American Institute & St Edmund Hall at Oxford
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian revolutionary diaspora, mobility, and freedom-seeking in the United States. Assist. Prof at App State; W&M and Woodson Institute alum. Handy with a knitting needle, happy on a bicycle. She/her.
Hunter Price @mhunterprice.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Western Washington University. Historian of Revolutionary and Civil War Eras.
Author of Sacred Capital: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5936/
Chris Evans @cevans3.bsky.social Historian of enslavement, emancipation, energy, and metals. Author of “Slavery’s Long Goodbye: Capitalism, Nationalism and Christianity in the Age of British Emancipation” ( 2026).
Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast @camericanist.bsky.social Welcome to the Cambridge seminar experience, where leading historians and graduate students exchange ideas about new lines of inquiry shaping the future of the field. Produced by @daisysemmler.bsky.social (img: Kent Monkman 2019)
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Zachary Conn @zacharyconn.bsky.social Historian of pre-1900 North America. Postdoc at the University of Idaho. Working on a book about early US representatives to Native American nations and a podcast about the Diary of John Quincy Adams. Learn more IF YOU DARE at zacharyconn.com
Nicholas T. Pruitt @ntphistory.bsky.social Historian of 20c U.S. religion, politics, and culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social Professor of History, Penn State
Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820
Avid Footballer
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/
https://sites.psu.edu/jch24/
Eran Zelnik @eranzelnik.bsky.social US Historian, recovering former Zionist, author of “American Laughter American Fury,” on white men’s humor in the early US. CFA union VP, Chico chapter, dogdad
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
Patrick WJ Thompson @patrickwjthompson.bsky.social Researcher at Queen's University Belfast | Interested in civil rights, social movements, Irish-British relations | All views my own
Claire Dubois @clairedubois.bsky.social Associate Professor University of Lille. Irish history, memory studies…
Currently working on the French representations of the Irish revolutionary period.
Dr James Rowland @jamesrowland.bsky.social Historian and Postdoctoral Researcher exploring the influence of America on 19th century British reform debates | PhD King’s College London | Currently coordinating peer review and research funding at the British Academy
Ciaran McDonough @metamedievalist.bsky.social Postdoc on ‘Classical Influences and Irish Culture’ ERC project @clic-erc.bsky.social, Aarhus University
Cara Delay @delaycara.bsky.social Historian of reproduction and women's health studying abortion in Ireland and the American south. WGST professor at the University of South Carolina
Amanda Waterhouse @amandawaterhouse.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. Editor, Age of Revolutions. PhD, IU Bloomington. Historian of int’l development + architecture in Colombia & beyond.
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Conor Tobin @drconortobin.bsky.social Historian/lecturer at UCD and Maynooth University. Previously IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Book project on Carter, Brzezinski, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/44/2/237/56992
Brian DeLay @briandelay.bsky.social Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
David Atkinson @drdaveatkinson.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History; wrote "The Burden of White Supremacy" & "In Theory and in Practice"; historian of US foreign relations; Opinions my own.
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
VAP @ Oberlin
https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social Born in Naples 🇮🇹, roots in 🇵🇹, lived and worked in🇩🇪🇨🇭and now in 🇬🇧 Associate Prof in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: the Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900”(CUP, 2024)
Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
Jeremiah J Garsha @jjgarsha.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Global History at University College Dublin. Researching global microhistories of violence, colonialism, and the collection, display, and return of human remains and looted artefacts
Justin F Jackson, Ph.D. @justinfdjackson.bsky.social justinfjackson.com
Historian, author of The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines (UNC Press, 2025)
Erik B. Alexander @erikalexander.bsky.social Professor of American history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. UVa PhD. Father of 2 boys, dog person, University of Illinois sports fanatic. Opinions are my own.
@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social 
Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; https://www.jimdownsofficial.com
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Amanda Frost @amandafrost.bsky.social Professor of immigration & citizenship at UVA Law. Author of YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (Beacon Press, 2021). Forthcoming book on the history of birthright citizenship in the USA. Civil rights lawyer. 
Lindsey Earner-Byrne @earner.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin
She/her
Steve Kantrowitz @skantrow.bsky.social Historian: Citizens of a Stolen Land; More Than Freedom; Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Midlife dog convert. Inyalowda.
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Benjamin Coates @benjamincoates.bsky.social History Prof at Wake Forest studying US & the World, empire, law. Writing a history of the Us and economic sanctions. Co-editor, US in the World book series w/Cornell UP. Wrote a book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/legalist-empire-9780190055585
Ruth Lawlor @lawlorruth.bsky.social U.S. and global diplomatic and military history | teaching at Cornell, formerly at Cambridge
Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
David Fitzgerald @davidfitzgerald.bsky.social Historian of war, militarization and the US in the world at University College Cork.
Author of Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army betwen the Cold War and the War on Terror (https://cambridge.org/9781009235808). 
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social Historian, professor, author of The Last Slave Ships (Yale Press).
✍️ new book, Spying on The Slave Trade.
Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Irish immigrant to U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
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
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social Author. Editor. Historian. Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press) Digital Scholarship Coordinator Virginia Tech Press; Assistant Professor. My views don’t reflect my employer. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
Connie Thomas @conniethomas.bsky.social Historian of early US migration politics & American identity
Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk
Comms @branchuk.bsky.social
Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America 
Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
www.masshist.org
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Maximilian Klose @klosem.bsky.social Historian of diplomacy, gender, empire, United States, Germany, and Japan, 19th and 20th centuries, humanitarianism.
Currently at the University of Freiburg.