Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social We are an association of all AAUP members in Texas #HigherEd. Join us as we advocate for faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one!
https://connect.aft.org/app/memberforms/8041A/JoinTheFight
Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
She/her.
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Blake Hartung @bahartung.bsky.social Teaching Professor, Arizona State University
When I have time, I research and write on late antiquity, early Christianity, Syriac literature, and the Mandaeans
My book: https://brill.com/display/title/68207?language=en
Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social Broke Project Archaeologist with Alpine Archaeological Consultants. Music (cyphernaut.bandcamp.com/follow_me), author (ORCID: 0000-0001-7987-8227), photography (andrewreinhard.com). Based in Chicagoland.
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social Reading & writing on early modern Jewish history, women writers, old books & libraries of all ages, collective memory, higher ed. I like to be around people I can learn from, esp students & my kids. Love Irish trad sessions https://orcid.org/0000-0002-388
Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of New York Attorney General Letitia James' Office
Ryan Bowley @godsaround.bsky.social Historian of early Christianity. Lover of Star Trek, history, and political theory. Episcopalian. 🏳️🌈
Karri Alldredge @karrialldredge.bsky.social New Testament Professor. Unapologetically Queer. Lover of weightlifting, whiskey, and justice making. she/her.
Vinny Thomas @vinnythomas.bsky.social ancient reptile in real life, Omar on Platonic. formerly known as vinn_ayy
Texas Observer @texasobserver.org A nonprofit newsroom covering Texas through investigative journalism & narrative storytelling since 1954.
Follow our journos: https://go.bsky.app/EdSL3Co
🤠Learn more about us: https://linktr.ee/texasobserver
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Michael Stahl @michaelstahl.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University, Ph.D. from NYU in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (2018), book: https://brill.com/display/title/57242, He/his/him.
Xavier M. Montecel @xaviermontecel.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s University in Texas. Catholic ethics. Sacramental things. My husband keeps the dogs alive. I handle the tropical fish. 🐠
Joanna Homrighausen, PhD @jdhomie.bsky.social Scholar of religion, sacred text, scribal craft, and lettering arts. PhD, Duke. Used to be The Saint John's Bible guy. Currently writing on Martin Wenham, Ben Shahn, and a host of other things.
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social Where history lives and grows.
JWA.org
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Dr Alison Schofield @balaganbetty.bsky.social 
Geoffrey Claussen @geoffclaussen.bsky.social Religious Studies/Jewish Studies Professor at Elon University. Author: Modern Musar: Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought • Jewish Ethics: The Basics • Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar
Tine Rassalle @tinerassalle.bsky.social Adjunct professor, archaeologist, researcher of Jewish and Christian history, video gamer, museum studies, technology. Immigrant. PhD from @UNC
Joan Taylor @joantaylor.bsky.social Historian; works in archaeology, film, art, material culture; writes on 2T Judaism, early Christianity & beyond; novelist; poem-maker; illustrator; wife; mum; immigrant; Anglo-Danish Kiwi. Relaxes by walking, chatting, gardening, pottering, seeing films.
Rebecca Harris @rlharris.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Bible | Qumran | Pseudepigrapha | navigating academia with kids
Matthew R Hotham @mrhotham.bsky.social Professor of Islamic Studies.
VanessaL @womanisthbscholar.bsky.social Transition leader in graduate theological education. Author of A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within. Loves the outdoors, traveling, and the colors salmon pink and apple green. 
Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social PhD, scholar of Hebrew Bible and ancient eastern Mediterranean, feminist, settler-Canadian. http://christine-mitchell.ca
Personal site.
Ari B @abaronofsky.bsky.social Hospital social worker, Trekkie, Friend of DeSoto, Whovian, dad, Intellectually aggressive, Rootless Cosmopolite.
Chris Hoklotubbe @choklotubbe.bsky.social Choctaw biblical scholar. Director of Graduate Studies for NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community and Assistant Professor of Classics at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA). Husband, dad, and occasionally funny.
Dr. Abby Kulisz @abbykulisz.bsky.social 
Jeremiah Bailey @ntecprof.bsky.social Historian of Early Christianity. Occasional speculative fiction writer. Constant speculator about the occasion of ancient documents. I do not speak for my employer.
Samira K. Mehta @samirakmehta.bsky.social Scholar of American religion, especially American Judaism, focusing on Religion and Reproductive Politics in the US, Interfaith Families, Jews of Color. Knitter, cellist. Dogs and cats, living together!
Laura Nasrallah @lsnasrallah.bsky.social Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal @barashersiegal.bsky.social 
Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social Scholar, late antiquity nerd, professor, and author of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover and Bishops in Flight https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bishops-in-flight/paper 
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Tianruo Jiang @tianruo.bsky.social PhD student at Yale.
Nichole - S&M Embroidery @snarkyandmodern.bsky.social A snarky and liberal embroidery community.
Free SALs through the FB group! #snarkyandmodern
Facebook.com/groups/snarkyandmodern
Ingrid Lilly @ingridlilly.bsky.social writer on philology, cultural poetics, and medical humanities of biblical & comparative literature. —-professor of religious studies at wofford. —— eco-feminist, adventure-curious, fireplace-socialite, & music-string theorist wannabe.
Alan Brill @kavvanah.bsky.social Professor at Seton Hall, Interfaith, Jewish Thought, Comparative Theology, Modern Orthodoxy, and Kabbalah. Forthcoming Book: A Jewish Trinity: Contemporary Christian Theology Through Jewish Eyes (Fortress:2025) --find me on my blog kavvanah.blog
Rebecca Lesses @argaman.bsky.social interests: pottery, Jewish studies, gardens, sarcoidosis
Helene Sinnreich @helenesinnreich.bsky.social Holocaust scholar, mom of boys, cats and a dog. Foodie. All options are my own. 
Amanda Ruppenthal Stein, PhD @ruppenstein.bsky.social I’m a musicologist, clarinetist, challah baker and Ima to 3.
Dr. Laura Robinson @laurarbnsn.bsky.social New Testament Review Podcast. Not Peer Reviewed on Substack. PhD New Testament, Duke. Follow for New Testament, theology, crochet, pop culture, excessive cat documentation.
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
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social Denizen of the North Coast who cogitates about cognition, sacred texts, and other sundries. Should be writing about Galatians. (Views are my own)
Rabbi Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social Rabbi, writer, mom; author of 70 faces, Texts to the Holy, Crossing the Sea & more; blogging as Velveteen Rabbi (velveteenrabbi.com) since 2003.
Co-founder http://yourbayit.org. She/her.
David Zvi Kalman @dzkalman.bsky.social I write about religion and tech. I also design dreidels.
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social National correspondent, New York Times.
Previously: Staff Writer, The Atlantic.
Covering religion, politics, culture, and other low stakes subjects.
Mailing list: yair.substack.com
Music: bit.ly/azyashir
Shoshana 🏳️⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social https://tech.lgbt/@LilahTovMoon
SWE, I like housing, bikes, transit, and nice communities 👩🏻🦰 ✡️ 🏳️🌈 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
I play tennis, organize a queer soccer group, and like going to synagogue
Boston
she/her
shoshana @thetonightsho.bsky.social i teach i write i watch tv im jewish and that's about it
Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social "Swear to god you're like a Fox Fire book set in hell." - Ursula Vernon
"You puckish motherfucker." - Sarah Day
Trans and queer anarchist sheep farmer. Navy veteran attempting to redeem himself. 
JewWhoHasItAll @jewwhohasitall.bsky.social Satirizing US ✝️-normativity & ✝️ hegemony from a ✡️ POV.
she/they
www.JWHIA.com
L. Stephanie Cobb @stephaniecobb33.bsky.social Dogs. Desserts. Dead people.
IYKYK
Chris Jones @profchrismjones.bsky.social Topekan. Religion professor. Teacher. I study Hebrew Bible, pedagogy, and trauma.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Patrick Burrows @lpburrows.bsky.social Author, "Theology in Place: Christianity, Geography, and the American South" (Fordham UP) | Theology, ethics, queer studies, Dolly Parton | North Carolinian | GDTBATH, YNWA | he/him
Katie Turner @katieturnerphd.com Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film
Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com
More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.com
Karen Costa (she/her) @karencosta.bsky.social #HigherEd · Climate Action Pedagogy · faculty & student success · online learning advocate · trauma-aware teaching · ADHD/ND · adjunct · author of 99 Tips
https://linktr.ee/KarenRayCosta
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Jillian Stinchcomb @jstinch.bsky.social teaching religion, Bible, and ancient history at Towson University | pretty good at improvising little songs for animals 
Hugo Méndez @hugomendez.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author, The Epistles of John (Cambridge 2026) and The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford 2025) #LGM
Personal site: http://www.hugomendez.com
New Book: https://amzn.to/4jT6pJZ
Jill Hicks-Keeton @jillhickskeeton.bsky.social 
John Penniman @historiographos.bsky.social Religious Studies Prof | Historian of Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World | Project Director of Bucknell's Health Humanities Initiative | editor of Theoria @ Fordham Press
http://johnpenniman.com/
Dr. Jim Getz @jimgetz.bsky.social Historian of ancient Near Eastern ritual, religion, and magic. Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage program at Temple U. Pedagogy wonk.
he/they/Dr
Philly AF. Speaking for no one but myself.
James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
Robyn Faith Walsh @zafulotus.bsky.social Associate Prof of New Testament and Early Christianity & Gabelli Senior Scholar @ University of Miami; Professorial Research Fellow @Universität Wien (2026–2028)
https://linktr.ee/robynfaithwalsh
http://robynfaithwalsh.com- B Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social PhD in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis, postdoc at Stanford. Interests in disability, myth, economics, and materiality. More at www.blindscholar.com.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social Making Texas higher education great again. Classics/late antiquity/early Christianity. Sports ball fan.
Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Writing on bodies, rituals, and social history in the Roman Empire
Dr. Nick Elder @nickelder.bsky.social Assoc Prof of NT | Ancient Media | Papyri | Positive Vibes Critical Pedagogy | Un/Specs Grading | 2000–2020s Dad Rock | Midwesterner
Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social Cat-obsessed doctrix of medieval history working in humanities communications; alt-ac/post-ac/union advocate; humanist; cute critters, nature, baking, crafts, art, nerdom, politics.
📍Cville
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social Antifa goat farm and beer garden in Field Store (Houston) Texas. We used to make cheese and trouble, but we no longer make cheese.
Buy stuff: https://blueheronfarmcajeta.com/
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Reed Carlson @reedcarlson.bsky.social Old Testament, Hebrew Bible & Study of Religion | Episcopal priest | Prof at Sewanee: Univ of the South | Home Page: http://reedcarlson.com | Faculty page: https://theology.sewanee.edu/faculty-staff/reed-carlson/ | Book: https://doi.org/10.1515/97831106700
Jaeda the Fabulous @jaedarising.bsky.social Bible scholar lost in library land
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Kelly Murphy @kjmrphy.bsky.social professor, women's basketball fan, human of Gilgamesh (the dog, not that other one) 
Martin Kavka @kavkaesque.bsky.social Religion prof, fan (and sometimes hatereader) of fashion and wedding journalism. Nothing I write here represents my employer.
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone Authoress. Books: RINGMASTER (NYT bestseller), TRUE BELIEVER (Hugo finalist), and @beckbook.com (out Oct. 6). Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net.
https://beckbook.com
https://josie.zone
Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old & worn early printed books/manuscripts & the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director, Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish 🟦
Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social Student of biblical studies, religion, Latinaoxe studies, apocalypse, utopia, etc.; educator based in San Diego, California.
Laura Royden @lauraroyden.bsky.social Got a PhD in political science at Harvard studying antisemitism and Jewish politics in America. Mostly just a wife guy, dog mom, and WNBA fan.- S Sarah Emanuel @saremanuel.bsky.social
Adam Shear @adamshear.bsky.social early modern Jewish history and history of the book at University of Pittsburgh (speaks for himself of course); chair of https://www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/; co-director of https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/
Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer’s. Reposts do not indicate agreement.