Sofia Ribeiro-Lemos @sofialsribeiro.bsky.social Phd Candidate Political Science & International Relations at University of Minho, PT • Research interests in East Asia; the US presence in the region; Memory, Identity, and Narrative analysis; with a dash of Portuguese politics • PT+EN
Frederick Ranallo-Higgins @fmr-h.bsky.social UCLA-ALC PhD | Senior Editor, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review https://tricycle.org/author/franallohiggins/
buddhism, occult, philosophy, religion, science, language, art, music, and other nonsense 🇺🇸🇰🇷
Stephanie K. Kim @stephaniekim.bsky.social Scholar of international higher ed
Teach at Georgetown
Wrote a book - bit.ly/csmbook
Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann @mancent.bsky.social Archaeologist and historian. Author. Course Director and lecturer of Independent Adult Education Provider MANCENT. Director Roman Gask Project. Loves all things Roman and Silkroad, and lots and lots of ancient glass.
Andrew Miles Logie @koreanologie.bsky.social Korean archaeology 한국 고고학, Korean Early Asia 한국에서 보는 고대 아시아; 한국과 태국의 비교 원사·고고학; 한국 사이비역사학; 20세기 한국 생활·문화사, 대중음악사 및 도시사; 그리고 some aspects of Chŭngsan religion 한국 신흥종교.
#K-archaeology #K-protohistory #K-pseudohistory #K-new_religion
Eric Kim @erickimhyunwook.bsky.social ICG Local 600 Camera Assistant
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Wayne Soon @waynesoon.bsky.social Historian of Medicine, China, Taiwan, and Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Associate Professor. Currently researching on global health insurance histories in East Asia. https://a.co/d/4tahHXR
John G. Grisafi, PhD @johnggrisafi.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies | Korean & Asian religion, religion & modernity, discursive study & epistemology of religion, politics of religion, religion & media, religion & place, historiography/memory of religion, marginal religions
Laura García Gascón @lauraggascon.bsky.social PhD Researcher at @eui-eu.bsky.social | Early Modern • Cultural History • Gender studies | A woman writing about women who wrote
Wonhee Cho @nomadism.bsky.social Historian of the Mongol empire; Associate Professor at Yonsei University
https://wonheecho.net
Dzavid Dzanic @eintellection.bsky.social Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
fredleept @fredleept.bsky.social Political Science & Asian/Asian American Studies, UConn, studying Asian American political thought & East Asian science fiction. https://linktr.ee/fredleept
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
Donna Kwon @hallyulikedonna.bsky.social Korean/Asian/American music and culture aca-fan/multi-stan. Professor of ethnomusicology. Author of Stepping in the Madang (2024, Wesleyan) and trying desperately to maintain hope in humanity. CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar 24-25.
Emily Y. Wu @emilyywu.com 🎙️ Producing/founded, Ghost Island Media podcast network based in Taiwan. 16 shows in English, Mandarin, French: https://ghostisland.media
📺 Producer/host of "Cover to Cover" and "Game Changers" on TaiwanPlus.
Twitter @ emilyywu
David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social Political scientist at GSAPS, Waseda University. Formerly UW-Madison, Princeton, U.S. Department of State, Stop & Shop. Author of Empire of Hope; The Rules of Play; Think Global, Fear Local (all Cornell UP). Coeditor of Stanford Studies in Asian Security.
Samuel Cohn @samuelcohn.bsky.social Founder and First President of the American Sociological Association Section on Development.
State & Development, Gender & Development, Historical Sociology, Macrosociology, Gender Discrimination
Author of All Societies Die: (Cornell University Press)
Marti Mätas 🇪🇪 @martimatas.bsky.social Estonian diplomat, Deputy Head of Mission @ Estonian Embassy Beijing 🇨🇳, accredited to 🇲🇳🇹🇭🇻🇳; formerly 🇰🇷🇪🇺.
Bárbara Sarmentera @barbarasv.bsky.social Investigación|Divulgación de arte coreano 🇰🇷. PhD candidate. KF Research Fellow en Hongik University (Seúl). Miembro fundador de ADECCE. @bobeblue_ en IG.
Korean Indie @koreanindie.bsky.social Independent Korean music blog. Helping you discover new Korean artists and bands from around the world.
Koreanindie.com | http://spoti.fi/30le | 📷 @Koreanindie
Ju Hui Judy Han 한주희 @dotorious.bsky.social Feminist geographer, UCLA prof. #Koreanstudies. 📚 Co-author of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in S Korean Protest (2025); 📚 Author of Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in S Korea and the Korean Diaspora (2025). judyhan.com
Dr. Sven Kramer @kuramasuben.bsky.social Associate professor at Aichi Prefectural University. Historian. Municipal mergers in modern Japan and more.
愛知県立大学日本文化学部准教授。専門は日本近現代史です。
https://researchmap.jp/Kurama83?lang=en
Kjell Ericson @kjelldericson.bsky.social Historian teaching and researching at intersections of environment, technology, and Japan @ Kyoto University.
Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities: UCLA & Waseda University reimagining the Japanese humanities for the world.
Christina Laffin @christinalaffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
Chris Elford @siegeweather.bsky.social I work on medieval Chinese literature, calligraphy, book history, and material culture. PhD in Chinese, UC Berkeley. Professor. Translator. Teacher of Mandarin and Classical Chinese. Go/围棋/바둑 try-hard.
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
Jiaming Zheng @jiamingzheng.bsky.social Manchu | Translator Durham University alumni
Interested in Translation Dialects Linguistics Sociolinguistics Ethnography History
Jun SUGAWARA @junsugawara.bsky.social Specialized in Xinjiang history, Modern Uyghur, and Housekeeping
Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics.
波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social Mostly posting in 変体英文. || Kulturelles Rāmenprogramm. || Inter indoctos, qui semidoctus est, doctissimus habetur.
Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social linguist, classicist & medievalist. lecturer at Central European University in Vienna. into languages, history of ancient & medieval sexualities, literature, beer, wine, sexy beards. bănățan. he/him 🏳️🌈
https://tinyurl.com/49w6yvdv
Martin van der Linden @martinvdlinden.bsky.social PhD candidate in the study of religion, Linnaeus University, Sweden | Shinto, digital religion, aesthetics theory, popular culture, and critical media theory
https://lnu.se/en/staff/martin.vanderlinden/
Guy Incognito @weilide.bsky.social Chinese fiction and other delicacies. Points forgotten to points unknown.
MattyYixin @mattyixin.bsky.social Museum Educator • Studies in Religion, History, Asia, and Video Games • MA Religion @UNE + M Asian and Pacific Studies @ANU
Here for Northeast Asia, Shinto, Shamanism, and Manchu/Tungusic Studies, Portuguese and Japanese Empires
Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. Freelance researcher at http://www.madbirds.nl. She/Her
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
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
Hannah Parsons-Morgan @beathas-ailsa.bsky.social African & Islamic Archaeology. Art history. Anthropology. History.
Chinese ceramics in Ethiopia, East Africa & the Indian Ocean World.
BA (SOAS), MA (SRU, UEA), PhD (IAIS, UoE)
I enjoy yoga, cycling & weightlifting.
Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social Medievalist, geek, Associate Professor of English at UCLA. Editor, Viator.
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religion @Princeton. Historian of Japanese religions (esp. 7th-9th c.) & Buddhism. Author of Ritualized Writing (UH Press, 2017). Unapologetic Boston sports fan.
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social human- a professor of #Korean and East Asian Studies. Research on performing arts (traditional mask dance dramas, K-pop and hip-hop), media, museums, tourism... #kpop #kdramas 한/영. 합기도, cycling, food, coffee
Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social Canadian in Hong Kong.
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Author of Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria (Open-access link: https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49)
Tao Jiang @taojiangscholar.bsky.social Prof of Classical Chinese Phil & Mahāyāna Buddhist Phil at Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, US; Books: "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China" & "Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on Subliminal Mind" amzn.to/3bzJ2qU
taojiangscholar.com
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Charles McClean @cmcclean.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale
👦🏻👨🏻👴🏻 Politics of Age
🇯🇵 Japanese Politics
Koji Hirata @khirata.bsky.social Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国(及び日ソ・露)近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
T. Seifman @toranosukev.bsky.social Historian of Japanese & Luchuan (Ryukyuan) arts and culture. Person. Personal, not professional, account. I travel from time to time.
They/he. Based in Kyoto.
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Sarah Bluecheck @octopusbronte.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Chicago.
Marjorie Burge @margiburge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Colorado Boulder; early Korea/early Japan.
百濟萬歳
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Univeristé de Montréal. Modern Japanese and Taiwanese history.
Evelyn Shih @amethystjazz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota; Chinese & Korean cultural studies; media, ecologies, phenomenology; comedy. Sound and noise, signifying everything.
Florida Man, PhD @casusscribere.bsky.social Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him)
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Torquil Duthie @torquil.bsky.social Japanese literature at UCLA. Author of Man’yoshu and the Imperial Imagination, 万葉集と帝国的想像, The Kokinshu: Selected Poems. From Cádiz.
Quirin Press @quirinpress.bsky.social Small independent scholarly press dedicated to Asian Studies, Poetics, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, & sometimes more…
Posts by OB 😎C.onstantly E.spying O.verleaf
Home: quirinpress.com
Ko-fi shop (±free downloads): https://ko-fi.com/quirinpress
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social 無子養貓居士
Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, University of Manchester
Teaching about China, writing about Chinese Buddhist mass media in the modern era
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-0866
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Gabriele Vogt @gabrielevogt.bsky.social Professor (Chair) in Japanese Studies at LMU Munich ➡️ studies: politics & society | migration & labor market | demography & democracy | cultures of vigilance (SFB 1369) | Okinawa
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus @apjjf.bsky.social In-depth critical analysis of the forces that shape the Asia-Pacific and the world. Edited by Tristan R. Grunow (Nagoya University) and Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University). Find us at: https://apjjf.org/.
Gulsen Kilci @gulsenk.bsky.social Doctorante en histoire médiévale de la Corée (relation interdynastique Yuan-Koryŏ, alliances matrimoniales)
Université Paris-Cité - 박사과정 고려-원나라 통혼관계
CCJ https://ccj.ehess.fr/membres/gulsen-kilci
Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social Scholar of medieval Chinese literary and manuscript culture (mostly Dunhuang), occasional potter, avid bad tennis player.
Sayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social Historian at NUS. A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan (Stanford UP, 2026)
Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes -> japaneseempire.info
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social Prof of Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale. Scholar of Japanese and other East Asian film and media (TV, manga, etc.). Likes rakugo, cats, and cycling. Views are my own. イェール大学教授、日本と他の東アジア映画とメディアの研究者。落語、猫と自転車。
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social 台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers
Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social Passion is a finite research resource. History is at once art and science. Art history and book history, history of knowledge. Hongkong Type matrices. Non Latin typography and typefoundery. PhDing @ UGent. ERC: PhiSci.
Pilar / 삘라르 @pilarm.bsky.social Photographer, writer
Korean Studies / Photography Studies
Madrid
SP/EN/한
MiCorea @micorea.bsky.social & VesAsia @vesasia.bsky.social
Jeremy Yellen @jeremyyellen.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan in Hong Kong.
- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
Monika Lehner @monikalehner.bsky.social #earlymodern Europe‘s views on China | co-editor Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 https://china-bibliographie.univie.ac.at/ | #academicwriting
| China in caricatures & #graphicnovels | #calligraphy #origami #knitting #breadbaking | #ichbinhanna
Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social Sinologist working on medieval (200–1000) China・Reception of the European Middle Ages in China・Posts a selection of classical Chinese literature each day・中古・中世紀
Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
Andrew Hall @andrewinfukuoka.bsky.social Teaching Japanese History at Kyushu University.
1960s student protests in Kyushu. Japanese colonialism in Korea, Manchuria.
Editor: "The Path and the Gate" "Education . . . Modern Korea, 1875-1945"
Reviews editor: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Matthew Hayes @matthew-hayes.bsky.social Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies at Duke University. Researcher in Japanese Buddhist Studies.- M Meg Rose @meganrose.bsky.social
Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. Modern Japanese literature, history, gender and sexuality studies, film and media, translation. Beauvoir in Japan! Opinions mine.
Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Book review editor, Sixteenth Century Journal. Dance, movement, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600, especially in northern Europe . Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
emily esten @estene.bsky.social they/them. digital scholarship, public humanities, museums, theatre. probably listening to the mountain goats. pic by Audrey Estok.
Rachel McVeigh 魏瑞秀 @remcveigh.bsky.social Medieval Chinese poetry and poetics: genre, form, animals | currently working on cranes, sometimes filmic dogs | PhD candidate at Harvard | formerly Oxford/PKU | she/her
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis