Gregory M. Clines, PhD @gregoryclines.bsky.social South Asian Religions, Jain Studies, Sanskrit Literature. Assistant professor Trinity University.
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her.
(specifics @ profirmf.com)
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@shabanamir1 on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
Like what I do? https://ko-fi.com/shabana
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
Will Sherman @willsherman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islamic Studies. Here again till Gilligan and Halligan call again to hooligan. Living under the Bluefunk Fires of the Dipper.
Paolo Aranha @paulus-aracnea.bsky.social Christianity in South Asia, Church history, early modern history, archives, politics (mostly Italian) and random thoughts.
https://eui.academia.edu/PaoloAranha
Jenn Ortegren @jennortegren.bsky.social Associate Prof of Religion at Middlebury College; Hinduism, Islam in India, ethnography, gender, and class. Author of *Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism.* Most skeets sarcastic.
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org bringing you religion, culture, and politics since 2008
* award-winning
* independent
* non-profit
* justice-minded
* irreverent
RD is a @praeyesright.bsky.social publication
want to write for RD? check out https://religiondispatches.org/submissions/
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Umair Javed @umairjav.bsky.social Interested in politics, development, informality, (mostly in) South Asia | Asst. Prof Sociology, LUMS | LFC +🇵🇰 cricket fan
Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center Prof interested in class/caste/racial/spatial politics.
Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Anna Bigelow @annabigelow786.bsky.social Walking the dog, learning, teaching, and writing about religion, Islam, South Asia, material culture, death, and other things
Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
The Hindu @thehindu.com News feeds from India's National Newspaper. (thehindu.com) Subscribe to The Hindu and support credible journalism: https://thehindu.com/subscription/
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 مسمن.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
UCLA Center for India and South Asia @uclacisa.bsky.social The Center for India and South Asia (CISA) supports research, hosts public lectures and workshops, and collaborates with other institutions and centers to raise the profile of South Asia on campus and, more generally, in Southern California.
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
MT @madiha.bsky.social Antifascist. Asst Prof @ Yale. Personal acct. Writing book on digital war, drones, & empire w/ view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech, militarism, anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis, transnatl solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen
she/her
Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @universitypress.cambridge.org
sandiptodasgupta.com
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
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.
Milan Vaishnav @milanv.bsky.social Senior Fellow + Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and host of the "Grand Tamasha" podcast (grandtamasha.com).
https://milanvaishnav.substack.com/
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social Religious and Intellectual Historian of South Asia, Diver, Photographer, Wanderer. ACLS Fellow 2024-2025.
https://christinemarrewakarwoski.wordpress.com
Ralph H. Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social Native/Indigenous Studies | Tibetan/Buddhist Studies | Ethnographer of Religion | Land-based Ethics | Decolonization | Asst Prof of Ethnic Studies at CUBoulder ✨ Chicana-Indígena | Views My Own
Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History
South Asia, environment, disasters, aid, colonialism, postcolonial studies, #infrastructure
Member #concurrences
Author of Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction...(CUP, 2023)
Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire' (2026) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781807810153
Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social Democratic socialist since 1954.
dissentmagazine.org
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
Aditya Balasubramanian @abalasub.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at ANU School of History
Working on Roads
Book: Toward a Free Economy @princetonupress.bsky.social
Order: http://tinyurl.com/5andt77x (USA/UK) http://tinyurl.com/2p88pvmv (India)
Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India
Antara Datta @antaradatta.bsky.social Historian of South Asia. Refugees, Migration and Borders.
Andrew Wyatt @andrewwyatt.bsky.social Tree fan, Francophile. Watches cricket. Studies nationalism. Teaches South Asia too! @ University of Bristol. Own views.
Indian Ocean World Centre @iowcmcgill.bsky.social Research centre at McGill University studying the history, economy, & cultures of the Indian Ocean world from China to Southeast & South Asia, the Middle East & Africa.
https://indianoceanworldcentre.com/
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Art History, Cold War internationalism, Modernism in Pakistan and South Asia | GC-CUNY alum | Cleveland based | From across the pond
Manasvin Rajagopalan @southasianbuoy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Literature at Krea University, India.
South Asia/France/Early Mod/Lit Crit/Visual Studies/ Performance. All skeets mine.
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, PhD @mchidarazvi.bsky.social Mughal Art & Architectural Historian; Specialist Lecturer on Cultural Tours; Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
Paolo Sartori @psardor.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @oeaw |
Editor of JESHO and JCAH |
Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/
Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
Charlotte Bank @charlottebank.bsky.social Art historian and curator. Acting professor of Islamic Art at LMU Munich. Current research project: Queering Islamic Art: Expressions of Gender Diversity and Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art.
Co-director Art-Lab Berlin
Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Princeton PhD. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Book: https://www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Rethinking-Islamic-Modernism
Deborah Sutton @debssutton.bsky.social Teaches South Asian History at Lancaster University, UK. Currently working on deserts in India, especially soils, water and salination. Delhiphile and runner.
Sajjad Rizvi سيد سجاد رضوي @mullasadra.bsky.social علي کا ملنگ؛ intellectual historian; global; decolonial; foodie
Najam Haider @nhaider.bsky.social Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
Vaishnavi Patel @vaishnawrites.bsky.social GODDESS OF THE RIVER (May 2024): http://bit.ly/GoddessGR. NYT Bestselling author of KAIKEYI. IG: @vaishnawrites. Lawyer. She/her. Rep: @luciennediver.bsky.social
Sahar Aziz @saharazizlaw.bsky.social Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School | Author of “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” | Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu) | Host, The Race and Rights Podcast | Views my own
Jaclyn Michael @jaclynmichael.bsky.social Associate Professor of Asian Religions. Researching and writing on Indian Islam, Islamophobia, theatre + performance. Union member. Podcasting for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social on the Islamic Studies channel
Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social historian, translator, author deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilizational legacy. Author of the Delhi trilogy and In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India, A Firestorm in Paradise
Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social I an award winning Dalit futurist and speculative fiction author. I am an inaugural member of the Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop for my upcoming book WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. I am also the author of the TRAUMA OF CASTE. Find me at www.dalitdiva.com
Equality Labs @equalitylabs.bsky.social At the intersection of organizing, community based research, socially engaged arts & digital security for South Asian religious & cultural minorities💙💛
Learn more: linktr.ee/equalitylabs
Swati Narayan @snavatar.bsky.social Academic, Activist and Author of UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours http://t.ly/Qmnnz
Malini Ranganathan @maliniranga.bsky.social Associate Prof, American U. Critical geographer writing on caste, race, and planetary ecologies.
Yashica Dutt @yashicadutt.bsky.social Dalit Journalist, author Coming Out as Dalit, words in NYT, Atlantic, Foreign Policy Mag.
Revised version of Coming Out as Dalit by Beacon Press out Spring 2024, NYC.
https://www.yashicadutt.com
Azad Essa @azadessa.bsky.social Journalist. Author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Pluto Press)
Brannon Ingram @brannoningram.bsky.social Professor at Northwestern. Posts about Islam and colonialism, the British empire, and the occasional political rant
Jayshree Bajoria @jayshreeb.bsky.social Asia Associate Director, Human Rights Watch
Elaine Fisher @elainefisher.bsky.social Scholar of religion and the public sphere, in South Asia and around the globe. Bringing democracy and religion into dialogue.
Chris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times.
Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.
https://chriskay.co.uk/
https://www.ft.com/chris-kay
CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
History of Anthropology Review @histanthro.org A source for news, original essays, & reviews in the history of anthropology since 1973. Read at histanthro.org, get in touch at news@histanthro.org
Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ
CASTAC @castac.bsky.social Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, part of the GAD of the American Anthropological Association | castac.org |
World Council of Anthropological Associations @wcaa.bsky.social A network of national, regional and international associations
promoting worldwide communication and cooperation in anthropology.
Anthropology of Global Inequalities Research Group @anthroglobineq.bsky.social We conduct research, write, and teach about critical analyses of categories of difference and their political effectiveness.
www.anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com
@Uni Bayreuth, Germany
anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller offers updates about people, cultures, rights, and change, around the world. Focus on anthropology and more. Casting a critical, but wishfully hopeful, eye on current events. Sharing new research and opportunities
Damien Droney @ddroney.bsky.social Cultural & medical anthropologist working in postcolonial science studies.
riceanthro.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social Department of Anthropology at Rice University
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social Come find us at https://americanethnologist.org/
Dean Chahim @deanchahim.bsky.social Anthropologist of engineering, cities, and the environment, recovering engineer, and personal chef to a toddler. | Writing about flood control and subsidence in Mexico City | Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU | deanchahim.com
Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social Essays at stevesalaita.com
Clara Han @clarayh.bsky.social Anthropology/disease, illness, chronic and catastrophic violence/feminist theory/ordinary language philosophy
Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
Explore, write, signup: https://linkin.bio/palestinestudies
Adalah Justice Project @adalahjustice.bsky.social At the Adalah Justice Project, we believe that collective action is essential for achieving justice and liberation. As a Palestinian-led advocacy organization based in the U.S., we are committed to building cross-movement coalitions and drawing connections
David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera, etc. Book from Haymarket. Views my own. Substack @davidpalumboliu
Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org