Scott 𐚁 “Luxe Animal” 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social Once and future historian of colonial Latin America, current stay at home dad, cook. just a clod of the common earth
Posting RVA-area plant pics and videos as @powerlinebotany on all platforms
65m Rolling Coastal Plain
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
Daniela Gutiérrez Flores @danielagtzf.bsky.social Ailurophile. Food, labor, culinary history. Early Modern Spain and LatAm.
Assistant Professor at UC Davis.
Springfield Museums @spfldmuseums.bsky.social Five world-class museums exploring art, history, and science, plus the Dr. Seuss Museum and Sculpture Garden.
#AtTheMuseums & #SeussInSpringfield
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Matt Westerby @qwesterby.bsky.social Medieval art | illuminated manuscripts and illustrated rare books | DH and digital | art history | cats 🐈. HoH 🦻🏻. All views are my own.
@rinascista.bsky.social @rinascista.bsky.social Art historian of Italy living in Austria.
Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social Historian of Cuba and Communist systems. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD candidate at UW-Madison. U of Havana BA, UW-Madison MA. Bylines in The Nation Mag & Dissent Mag, among others.
Nathalie Miraval @nathaliemiraval.bsky.social Art Historian (beta version)
Santa Marta expert
saints, monsters, gender in early Afro-Iberian Atlantic
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Maaike Dirkx 🎨 👀 @maaiked.bsky.social Art historian | linguist | poetry | opera | art mysteries | auction news junky | Amsterdam | Rembrandt | lazy blogger | Mickey 🐶
Laura Eliza Enríquez @lauraeenriquez.bsky.social A mouthful of thoughts / taste, art & the senses
📍Reims
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social Engage the past, define the future | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Throughlines | ACMRS Press | RaceB4Race
Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social The Early Modern History subject group at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | News about conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, and more
Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social The CMEMS brings together staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh studying the medieval and early modern periods.
Find out more at https://hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-renaissance/seminars-and-events/seminars
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies @csrs-scer.bsky.social Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance
Society for Reformation Research (SRR) @socrefresearch.bsky.social Organization promoting the study of the Reformation and early modern religion.
Sponsor of the Archive for Reformation History (ARH)
Social Media: @kkaelin.bsky.social
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
Borja Franco Llopis @bortxeta82.bsky.social Professor of Art History at UNED. I research early modern art in the Mediterranean, as well as issues of alterity and race. Member of the Young Academy of Spain and the Young Academy of Europe. https://uned.academia.edu/BorjaFranco
Dr Ana Howie @anahowie.bsky.social Early modern art and dress historian at Cornell University/ Rubens, van Dyck, and women's dress in 17th-century Genoa / Global encounters and objects / Early modern race 
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Miguel Valerio @mia1va.bsky.social Author of Sovereign Joy:Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1540 #earlymodern #skyhistorians
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
Carmen Ripollés Melchor @cripolles.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern Iberian World and professor at Portland State University. From Burriana (Spain)
Noel Blanco Mourelle @mourelle.bsky.social I admire its purity
Tamara J. Walker @tamaraw.bsky.social Historian * Author of BEYOND THE SHORES: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ABROAD (Crown, out now in paperback) and EXQUISITE SLAVES (Cambridge, 2017) * Co-founder of The Wandering Scholar (@wearetws.bsky.social).
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
Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
julia silverman @realrupertmurdoch.bsky.social phd candidate in art history at h*rv*rd; semi-professional chismosa
@amaraleah.bsky.social @amaraleah.bsky.social 
New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social Tweets words when they appear in the New York Times for the first time.
@nyt-said-where.bsky.social for context
maintained by @maxbittker.bsky.social
@elsjevankessel.bsky.social @elsjevankessel.bsky.social 
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social Director of the New Netherland Institute, Albany, New York, archives rat, #VastNewNetherland
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Farren Yero @feyero.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Lehigh U. health/disease in Latin America & the Caribbean. writing: ATLANTIC ANTIDOTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST VACCINE
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social A hub for the humanities, where intellectual relationships are forged across academic boundaries, within and beyond Yale University.
Lisa Voigt @lisaluso.bsky.social Professor of Spanish & Portuguese @Yale; previously @Ohio State (2008-2023)
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social The Association of Historians of American Art, along with its e-journal Panorama, provides a scholarly forum for the study of American art and culture.
Maggie Cao @maggiemcao.bsky.social Associate professor of art history, UNC-Chapel Hill, Getty Scholar Winter 2024, author of The End of Landscape, works on US art and the broader globe. 
@deliacosentino.bsky.social @deliacosentino.bsky.social Art historian, DePaul University; art of Greater Mexico; New-England born, Angelino upbringing, Chicagoan today; _Resurrecting Tenochtitlan_ (UT Press, 2023)
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
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"
Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social Executive Director, Sam Gilliam Foundation; UCLA professor emeritus; and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. Opinions expressed here are my own.
Old Paper Collector @oldpapercollector.bsky.social I am a hobby collector (+25 years) of early modern books (1500-1800) printed in Antwerp and books with recycled manuscripts. I live in the Netherlands. https://sites.google.com/view/oldpapercollector
Museo del Prado @museodelprado.es Bienvenidos a la cuenta oficial del Museo Nacional del Prado en Bluesky. Abrimos una nueva ventana para compartir con quienes aman el arte nuestras colecciones, historias y el día a día del museo
https://www.museodelprado.es/
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social Research institute for art history and architecture, part of @maxplanck.de
📍 Rome, Italy
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social Colonial Latin America, Indigenous History, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. Member of the UKLAH board. Colonial LASA Social Media committee.
https://guillaumecandela.github.io
Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social Art historian of medicine
Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester
plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor
Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host
she / her
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social art historian with eclectic interests
Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she
art historian poet
Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices
U Delaware + Philly
co-founder of the journal Selva
https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Tina Rivers Ryan @tinariversryan.bsky.social Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
Tamara Golan @deliasrevenge.bsky.social art history professor | medieval & early modern | Chicago | 🦂
Rebecca Zorach @rabbitrez.bsky.social - - - never not going the way of myspace - - -
art history / politics / ecologies /
bad, evil-related material /
*what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?* /
same id at insta, mastodon.social
Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Cloe Cavero @cloecavero.bsky.social Historian of early modern Iberian art and visual culture based in Princeton. Works on child martyrs and religious conflict, art and juridical normativities, and the visual culture of purity of blood. Editorial Board, Boletín del Museo del Prado. she/ella
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social McGlinchey Stafford Associate Prof/Research Dean at Tulane Law. Criminal law, rural legal systems, sexual assault, punishment, and cultural criticism. Atrevida y obstinada.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2292637
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social Historian of early modern science and art |
max planck research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
#VisualizingScienceInMediaRevolutions |
Co-Investigator of www.visualizingtheunknown.com
Ariella Minden @ariellaminden.bsky.social art historian | printmaking | technology | media | lecturer at the university of st andrews
Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social Professor of EM Spain at Johns Hopkins; Author, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, all saints all the time, vice dean, climber, hiker, baker, militantly frivolous
Tina Asmussen @tinasmussen.bsky.social historian of early modern science and culture | past, present and future of publishing
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
Meha Priyadarshini @mehapri.bsky.social Historian of early modern global connections and objects
Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
Ittai Weinryb @ittaiweinryb.bsky.social 
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/