DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social Official account of DH2027, the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social Historian.
Rutgers History Department @ruhistorydept.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the Rutgers History Department (New Brunswick, NJ), designed to celebrate our students, faculty, and alums and to build intellectual networks and community.
Caitlin Hartweave @chartweave.bsky.social PhD candidate in History. Gender-non-conformity & trans narrativity in the 18th century Atlantic world. Grad school goblin, comic shop gremlin. Queer af. she/her
Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk Assistant Research Professor @camunicampop.bsky.social
Technical Director, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org
Research Associate & GIS Consultant @ihr.bsky.social & @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Elizabeth D. Katz @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law
Legal History, Family Law, Criminal Law
Faculty bio: https://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/elizabeth-katz
Publications: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1543206
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History @c2dh.uni.lu As an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Luxembourg, the C²DH is committed to high-quality research and public dissemination in the field of contemporary history with a particular focus on digital methods and tools. @uni.lu #c2dh
Digital Newberry @digitalnewberry.bsky.social Exploring the Newberry Library's digital collections: rare maps, historical documents, postcards, and unexpected finds. Browse, discover, and help us transcribe. Free and open to all.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Kendra Boyd @kendradboyd.bsky.social Scholar of African American history, Black business and economics, urban history.
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social asst prof of history at temple // they/them
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Daniel Sharfstein @danielsharfstein.bsky.social Vanderbilt law prof, American legal history, property, federal Indian law, author of THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS and THE INVISIBLE LINE
Grace Mallon @gracemallon.bsky.social British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Obsessed with American federalism.
Journal for Digital Legal History @dlh-journal.bsky.social We are a fully Open Access journal based at the UGhent Open Journal platform. We love to receive any kind of contribution on digital humanities methods applied to legal sources! Check us out: https://openjournals.ugent.be/dlh/
Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social Prof Boston U. Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes.
5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23
Book: The People’s Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists
http://shugerblog.com
http://ssrn.com/author=625422
Anne Kornhauser @akornhauser.bsky.social Dept. chair.😱 U.S. #historian -intellectual, legal, political. Book: *Debating the American State...* Now: U.S. democracy & the world. Former legal journalist. NYC
Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social Legal historian. Recovering ironist.
Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social Native Cook County Democrat, Cubs fan, and long-time historian of the American Revolution and Constitution
Sally Hadden @sallyhadden.bsky.social Historian of law, the south, early America. Lover of baseball, college bball, English theatre. Author of SLAVE PATROLS: LAW & VIOLENCE IN VIRGINIA & THE CAROLINAS. Editor of Publications, Colonial Society of Massahusetts.
Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
Tanner Allread @tannerallread.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/tanner-allread/
Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social Associate Prof. and Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School.
Siobhan "Shiv" Mukerji Barco @siobhanbarco.bsky.social Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Legal Historian. Host of the Talking Legal History podcast.
https://aslh.net/talking-legal-history/
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now.
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social Scholarship, news and new ideas in legal history
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱 @rmostern.bsky.social World & Chinese history, environment & climate, space & place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Academic freedom & labor. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social A federal agency, National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, preservation, public programs, and education in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Martha Hodes @marthahodes.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Professor at NYU. Author most recently of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering.
Sterling Fluharty @sterlingfluharty.bsky.social Facilitating AHA CARE Group "Neurodivergence and the Historical Profession" from 2026 to 2028. Diagnosed L1 ASD in 2025. Applying to history PhD programs. Pursuing research into Navajo history of the mid-20th century.
Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social Historian-Artist. Assistant professor UCLA, Information Studies, Digital Humanities, Southeast Asia, libraries. cindyanguyen.com Author of Bibliotactics https://bibliotactics.com
Emory Center for Digital Scholarship @ecds-emory.bsky.social ECDS is a collaborative research center that creates innovative, sustainable models of digital scholarship and publication for public and academic use. Learn more about us at ecds.emory.edu
Artificial Historian @aihistorian.bsky.social My name is Dean Rehberger & I teach & do digital history at MSU. I have always been a pseudo/artificial historian (cultural studies) & I dabble in AI but the views and ideas posted here are my own.
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Mary Eliza Project @maryelizaproject.bsky.social that time in 1920 when 54k+ women in Boston claimed their right to vote
history, data, maps, stories
sites.google.com/view/maryelizaproject
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
Katharina Isabel Schmidt @katisasch.bsky.social “Artificial Justice" Research Group Leader @maxplancklaw | legal history & history of science | legal modernism | law and AI
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social Historian of business and law, and the history of human cooperation. Writing on corruption and polarization, markets and morality, early modern smuggling, and the history of responsible businesses. Sailing in my free time. Check out www.davidchansmith.net
Sam Perrin @misssamperrin.bsky.social Cemetery historian & guide to London's dead. I offer historical walks & talks via @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social ⌛🪽 🏳️🌈
Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA
Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France
https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a global leader in research, teaching, and innovation at the crossroads of cultural heritage and digital methods.
Web: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/
Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
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.
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately.
https://ssrn.com/author=933550
L. Renato Grigoli, PhD @lrpsnaps.bsky.social Medievalist, Legal Historian, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://lrphotography.art/
Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Author of 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
Matt Steilen @mattsteilen.bsky.social Law professor. Legal history, constitutional law. PhD in philosophy. Forthcoming book on the origins of the English parliament, Routledge.
Dr Amanda McVitty @dramandamcvitty.bsky.social Professional historian FRHistS | Social, cultural and legal histories of medieval Europe and modern Aotearoa New Zealand | Writing a book on colonial ghosts #UncannyCountry https://phanza.org.nz/historian/amanda-mcvitty/
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Medieval Murder Maps @medimurdermaps.bsky.social Medieval Murder Maps give insights into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.
medievalmurdermap.co.uk
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
Prof. B. (Tracey Billado-Lotson) @billadot.bsky.social Historian of 🇫🇷: C10th-12th Anjou; violence, customs, law, monks/nuns, lordship, unfreedom, charters. She/her.
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay and #medieval set #TTRPG, and idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
Dr Dean Irwin @medievaljews.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin: medieval and Jews (often at the same time). Medieval Anglo-Jewry generally. Dyslexic. Visiting Fellow at University of Lincoln; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Thomas McSweeney @mcsweeney1693.bsky.social Professor of Law @wmlawschool. Legal historian, medievalist, W&M alum. Writing about English law in the 13th century. Author of Priests of the Law (Oxford 2019), on the Bracton treatise and its authors. All views my own, not W&M's.
Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social Legal academic, PhD - researching EU Rule of law, the CJEU, EAW and judicial independence deficiencies, medieval, legal and Celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820.
Joanna McCunn @jhmccunn.bsky.social Legal historian, cake fan (she/her)
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
Sara Gwyn Beam @saragwynbeam.bsky.social Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at The Ohio State University | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://history.osu.edu/people/flannigan.15
Joshua Tate @jctate1215.bsky.social Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas. Interested in legal history and how it shapes the modern world. Usual caveats apply.
Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social #LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. Working on: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social Law Library Director and Associate Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law. Former medievalist, and fan of archaic information technologies. She/her/hers
Meghan Woolley, Ph.D. @meghanhwoolley.bsky.social Historian and writing instructor studying emotions and law in 12th and 13th-century England.
Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Private Law, Cambridge. Founding member Selden's Sister. Land law, medieval law, historical jurisprudence. AFHEA. She/her. Personal account.
Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
Keith Ruiter @keithruiter.bsky.social Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
Liz Papp Kamali @lizpappkamali.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com- N Nicholas Karn @nicholaskarn.bsky.social Student of law, customs, charters and castles.
Peter L Larson @medievalhistorian.bsky.social Historian of England c. 1400-17??; law, society, economy, trade; Associate Dean & Prof. Fan of ice hockey, scotch, Warhammer, Battletech, & naps. He/him/his/ipse/eius/eum.
Views are my own, retweets are not endorsements, beware of sarcasm
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.