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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
Angelo Carusone @goangelo.bsky.social Chair & President, Media Matters. An all around good guy fueled by caffeine, candy and comeuppance. Posts are mine alone.
Elodie Harper @elodieharper.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wolf Den trilogy, about the women of ancient Pompeii 🏛️Boudicca’s Daughter (August 2025)
Published by @headofzeus.bsky.social
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The Ozymandias Project @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social Connecting Modern Societies to Ancient Worlds. Ancient Office Hours Podcast & The Reading Party Podcast. Pnyx Digital Magazine. #history #Archaeogaming #podcasts #reception #digitalhumanities & more!
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
So You Think You Can Rule Persia @rankingpersia.bsky.social A podcast rating and reviewing all the kings of Persia from Deioces to Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Hosted by Umberto Molinatti and @sarielsnowings.bsky.social || OUT NOW!
AncientBlogger @ancientblogger.bsky.social All about ancient history. Creator and host of the Ancient History Hound podcast. https://linktr.ee/ancientblogger
Julia M Perroni @juliamperroni.bsky.social She/her, writer among other things.
Classics grad: UBC ➡️ KCL ➡️ UWisc.
I like epic and tragedy and queer stuff of all kinds! Co-Host of Classically Trained Podcast.
Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
Lesche Podcast @leschepod.bsky.social Ancient Greece. New Ideas.
https://www.leschepodcast.com
Look for “Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas” wherever you get your podcasts
Timo Epping @timoepping.bsky.social Educator bij het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden | Maakt op persoonlijke titel de podcasts ‘Oudheid’ en ‘Middeleeuwen’
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
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Medievalist, environmental historian, penguin historian. Incoming editor of Environmental History. Author of Medieval Riverscapes, Negotiating the Landscape, and Water in World History. EFArnold.com
Penguin (even when you struggle you're still a penguin)
Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Kate Cooper @kateantiquity.bsky.social People-watcher, ancient and modern. Historian of Late Antiquity. Professor of History, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion @AmherstCollege • currently trying to make Socrates of Constantinople cool again
Erica Buchberger @ericabuchberger.bsky.social History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. https://www.ericabuchberger.com/
L. Renato Grigoli, PhD @lrpsnaps.bsky.social Medievalist, Legal Historian, Photographer | 🏳️🌈 | they/them | https://lrphotography.art/
Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Scott G. Bruce @xuthal.bsky.social Medieval History / Fordham University / editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion / Canadian / chaotic good
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social Medieval historian @Uni-Bonn 🎓@degruyterbrill, @WissenVerbindet & @OxUniPress monographs 💡Western Europe, Byzantium, mobility, military, digital humanities ✐Heisenberg (DFG)
Sihong Lin @sihonglin.bsky.social Historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages @glasgow.ac.uk. Writes on the medieval Roman Empire, Britain, and everything in between.
Monika Amsler @monikaamsler.bsky.social Senior Research Assistant (sic!), University of Bern. Rabbinic lit., ancient education, book production, the concept of the paradox, history of ideas.
Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social Medievalist at Heidelberg University.
'We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love.' - J. R. R. Tolkien (1943)
Young Richard Kim @youngrichardkim.bsky.social @UICLAS professor of the ancient Mediterranean world. @UCLA, @UMich alum. Korean American, son of immigrants, striving anti-racist, not very good follower of Jesus
Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Ancient History at UMass Lowell. Research: Roman merchants, ancient numismatics, greed, stereotypes. Self: embroidery, tea, long walks, and ice hockey.
Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Evan Schultheis @evanschultheis.bsky.social M.A. History, Winthrop University. B.S. Chemistry. Specializing in Late Roman and Byzantine Military Archaeology, Culture, and History. Author, "The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, A.D. 451." Reenactor. Views are my own. #ActuallyAutistic
Lucy Grig @lucygrig.bsky.social Ancient historian and failed optimist, always looking for somewhere to procrastinate
Ricky Broome @karanthir.bsky.social Recovering academic who just can't seem to quit
International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social Hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies is an annual gathering of thousands of scholars interested in medieval studies. ICMS 2027: Thursday, May 13, through Saturday, May 15, 2027.
Bonnie Effros @historianofarch.bsky.social historian of archaeology, recovering early medievalist, newly implanted Vancouver academic, immigrant and granddaughter of immigrants, she/her, views my own
Jesse Keskiaho @jkeskiah.bsky.social Early medieval historian and manuscript scholar, docent @helsinki.fi. Researching ideas about the soul, annotations to Augustine, dreams. He/him.
Otávio Luiz • 奥塔维奥 @profotavio.bsky.social Professor de História da África na Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Coordenador do Grupo de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos (GEAFRAS).
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
Guy Halsall @realhistoryguy.bsky.social Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
Mirela Ivanova @mirela.bsky.social Lecturer in History. Pre-modern Balkans, Russia, Turkey. BBC New Generation Thinker. Social climber🎓. Rock climber 🧗. Loves context. 
Damián Fernández @historiantillo.bsky.social Opinions my own, though they probably reflect the deep structures and contradictions of late capitalism.
Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social Medievalist and Digital Humanist at @leedsims.bsky.social doing @manuscriptsetc.bsky.social. Co-founder of @kismetpress.bsky.social. Director of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Was at KU Libraries (KS, USA) & Arnamagnæan Insitute (Denmark). nkyavuz.com
Vox Hiberionacum @voxhib.bsky.social Archaeology, History, Hagiography, Folklore & Landscapes of Early Irish Christianity & Early Medieval Ireland. Includes thinly veiled but good-natured irreverence, outrageous puns and irregular posts.
Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira @jcmo77.bsky.social Professor, historiador, mineiro e corinthiano 
Matt Chalmers @mjchalmers.bsky.social Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
Sven Meeder @svenmeeder.bsky.social Historian / early medieval canon law / Radboud University / Utrecht
Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity. British Academy Postdoc at University of Liverpool. Hispanophile, Leodensian.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/david-addison
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages at the University of Warsaw, chair of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations. Interested in relics, clerics, saints, demons, thieves, and divination. - Z Thomas Kohl @zezzo796.bsky.social Medieval Historian, University of Passau
Catherine-Rose Hailstone @caterose.bsky.social Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Early Medieval History at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Currently writing up her Leverhulme Trust monograph on Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in the Churches of Late Antique Gaul.
Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social Digital historian, medieval & late antique historian, educational researcher, occasional coder, nerd of many flavors. Views my own.
Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).
Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social Ikerbasque Research Professor of Medieval History at University of Basque Country
Joshua Schachterle @jschac.bsky.social
Currently an independent scholar, hopefully a future professor of Early Christianity. Researching monasticism & asceticism. Dad. Punk rocker.
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🏃♂️✅
Paulo Pachá @pacha.bsky.social Professor de História Medieval na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
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.
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
Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social Historian of the Early Middle Ages based in York.
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Roger Pearse @rogerpearse.bsky.social Patristics, texts & transmissions, ancient history.
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog
Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com she/they🏳️🌈| author & editor | Egypt: Coptic Studies (martyrology, music); Egyptology (TIP, AE religion) | Indigenous (reconnecting Haudenosaunee & Métis) | Haiti/Vodou | tech & its (mis)use | religion | RS≠endorsement | linktree/tamarasiuda | patreon/tsiuda
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Rachel Singer @rachelbsinger.bsky.social Environmental historian of first-millennium Britain/Ireland and Merovingian Gaul.
PhD Candidate at Georgetown researching infectious disease, rebel nuns, and disaster.
Philly sports fan and weird rescue animal enthusiast by night.
rachelbsinger.com
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.
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
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.
Dr. Angela Costello @zostepatrikia.bsky.social Dress and Textile Historian/Archaeologist @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Florida woman. she/her- A Averil Cameron @averilcam.bsky.social Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
Silvia Holm @silviaholm.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Rostock, working on late Roman imperial succession, interested in Greek & Roman Epigraphy 
Sarah E. Rollens @apocalypsenow5.bsky.social Department Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College. PhD in the Study of Religion (EC&NT), University of Toronto & Centre for Jewish Studies (2013).
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University
Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025)
Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com
Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
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/
Ella Kirsh @ellakirsh.bsky.social Stenography and social history in Late Antiquity. Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge.
Dr Nicola Holm @nrholm.bsky.social Postdoc at the University of Warsaw working on fourth-century Antioch. PhD on the sons of Constantine and church politics from Exeter. 🇦🇺 in 🇵🇱 She/her.
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social Prof @ Providence College and lifelong resident of #RhodeIsland (more or less)
#Sabbaticaling
#EarlyChristianity
#Photography
#VirtualTravel
#SartorialTheology
#Interfaith
#Covid
Posts about ma figghia (that's Sicilian), my toddler daughter, too!
Bailey Freeburn @baileyafreeburn.bsky.social PhD student at Brown. Thinking about late antiquity, sexuality, trauma. Chronically tired, perpetually annoying. she/her.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Erin Galgay Walsh @eringwalsh.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social #BLM | Professor in Mountains of NC | Nerd about Religious Studies - Mediterranean Antiquity | I study how ancient and modern Christians imagine history | Cycling | he/him | Writes @RDispatches | OpinionsMine