@drjoshmeyers.bsky.social @drjoshmeyers.bsky.social Recovering Academic and Sci-Fi connoisseur reporting from the North Shore
Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social History (Ottoman and Russian Empires) and international law.
Author, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War" (Oxford, 2018) and co-author, "To Save the Country" (Yale, 2019).
All views strictly my own.
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Halil İbrahim Yenigün @yenigun.me 
Aditi Mukund @aditimukund.bsky.social @humboldt-foundation.de Fellow • Climate, gender, & maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region • South Asia + Indo-Pacific watcher
@pcb-aha.bsky.social @pcb-aha.bsky.social 
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。
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social Historian at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.
Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press
@roy1987.bsky.social @roy1987.bsky.social 
Molly Fee @molly-fee.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology
Former PPRF in Sociology, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Studying forced migration and refugee resettlement
https://www.mollyfee.com
Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social Soon-to-be Senior Lecturer in Law at Exeter. Decolonial transnational feminism, abortion rights in El Salvador, refugee law, disability rights, LGBTQ rights. Usual disclaimers.
Neil Hauer @neilphauer.bsky.social Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya), Russia, Ukraine, Syria, heavy metal. Stories @CNN, @CBC, @NYMag, @guardian etc. 🇨🇦 neil.hauer@gmail.com. Eng/рус/հայ.
María Lumbreras @marialumbreras.bsky.social Historian of early modern Iberian art and visual culture. Assistant professor at UCSB. 
Simon Bunchuay-Peth @simonbunchuaypeth.bsky.social Human geographer @univie.ac.at researching migration, climate change, inequalities & translocality with a passion for #scicomm • Co-Founder of the www.climatemobilities.network • PI #CuHeMo Project www.cuhemo.org • Lead Developer @climohub.bsky.social
Stefan Williamson Fa @stwfa.bsky.social anthropologist of sound, food, and İslam
research associate at Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
normally between Iberia, Anatolia and the Caucasus
Julio Capó Jr. @juliocapojr.bsky.social Queer/Latinx/race/migration history prof at FIU. Also public history & humanities. Wrote #WelcomeToFairyland. Curated #QueerMiami, #Zorita & other exhibitions. An editor of Made By History section in TIME. Opinions my own. He/él.
Arash Davari @arashdavar.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Political Theory, Revolution, Iran
Narges Ghandchi @narguesghandchi.bsky.social (linguistic, educational, & social) anthropology, socio-/linguistics, migration studies
Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote Postdoc @ TU Berlin #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
Elodie Gavrilof @elodiegavrilof.bsky.social Historian | Armenian Studies, from Empires to Nation States | Caucasus & Turkey
Lecturer Inalco & Sorbonne Paris-Cité
Chercheuse associée au CERCEC et à l’IFEA
Pierre Porcher-Ancelle @porcherancelle.bsky.social Professeur de lycée · HG, EMC, DNL anglais · Docteur en histoire de @sorbonne-universite.fr, membre associé du @crhxix.bsky.social · Éducation, jeunesse et administration #histed
https://cv.hal.science/pierre-porcher-ancelle
Theodora Dragostinova @theodorad.bsky.social Historian & professor @Ohio State.
Books on Eastern Europe & the Balkans: nationalism, migration, borderlands, Cold War culture. Current work on post-1918 divided families & displaced children.
2025 ACLS Fellow.
Deb Neill @debneill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe, Colonialism, History of Medicine, and World Wars One and Two at York University, Toronto, Canada. #canadastrong #elbowsup 🇨🇦
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Yasmeen Abu-Laban @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair at University of Alberta. Focused on anti-racism, immigration, citizenship and human rights. She/her.
Rachel Weil @racheljweil.bsky.social Early modern historian @Cornell. Prisons, law, politics, gender in 17th-18th c. England. Terminated NEH fellow, @IAS member 2024-25. Writing "Detention and Punishment in Early Modern English Prisons, 1600-1815" Rescue-🐶 mom, BLM, Democrat, she/her 🏳️🌈💙🏳️⚧️🌻
Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social Assoc Prof of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington; Cold War international history and geoeconomics; Book--Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2024); Stanford baseball alum
Jacob Chamberlain @jacobchamberlain.bsky.social Author of "Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal," out now, UGA Press, March 2025.
Social justice, migration, theory, geography. Publications at link below.
https://linktr.ee/jacobchamberlain?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Severyan Dyakonov @severyandyakonov.bsky.social Historian of Soviet internationalism. USSR-India relations/International Red Cross movement/Soviets in International Organizations/digital humanities for historians.
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science
Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies
University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social
https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.com
Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social The Journal of Global History is an open access journal published by Cambridge University Press. It aims to be the leading scholarly outlet for innovative analyses of global historical phenomena.
Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.
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🏃♂️✅
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Dr Ivan Simic @ivansimic.bsky.social Edmontonian, amateur climber, knitter, cat lover, and then some other things.
Historian, Charles University, Prague | PhD in History, University College London. SSEES | he/him
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon @ksvarnon.bsky.social Historian of Russia, Ukraine, the USSR, and East Germany.
Assistant Professor at Morehouse College.
Writer and Foreign Policy Commentator with Regional Expertise.
Texan. Perpetually behind PhD Candidate.
Pavel Khazanov @khazanov.bsky.social Associate Professor of Russian, Rutgers University. Cultural history; ideologies of the late/post-Soviet Russian middle class. Author of "The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social Historian of the Russian revolutionary emigration. Formerly Russian curator at the British Library. Based in East Neuk & Edinburgh, Scotland.
Latest book (pbk. ed.):
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spark-that-lit-the-revolution-9781350344730/
Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social Historian of the Soviet Union and its successors, especially Russia. Hansen Chair in History University of Melbourne. Editor: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/soviet-and-post-soviet-history . Views my own. https://www.markedele.com
Mehmet Volkan @mehmetvolkan.bsky.social Historian of Soviet Central Asia.
Başka Ülke Youtube Kanalı: https://www.youtube.com/@baskaulke2022/videos
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social Central Eurasia in Focus: Advancing Research, Building Community
Susan Grunewald @susangrunewald.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History @SNHU. Historian of German POWs in the USSR. Digital Humanities and GIS mapping. Car nut. https://susangrunewald.com/
Europe-Asia Studies @europe-asia.bsky.social Since 1949, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on history + current political-social-economic affairs in Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia.
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
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.
Ryan Lynch @ryanjosephlynch.com Professor of Islamic History @ The Citadel. Work on the Islamic state throughout history. Love tech + games + punk rock. Writing a book about history in games. Views my own. ryanjosephlynch.com
Alison Vacca @medievalqabq.bsky.social editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social
historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania
currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate
associate prof at Columbia University
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists @alusuralwusta.bsky.social Journal of Middle East Medievalists (@mideastmedieval.bsky.social), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the medieval Middle East. Edited by Zayde Antrim (zaydeantrim.bsky.social) & Alison Vacca (@medievalqabq.bsky.social) 
Omniya Abdel Barr @omabarr.bsky.social Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A.
Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
Najam Haider @nhaider.bsky.social Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
SCORE @rebellionuhh.bsky.social Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Theo Beers @t6e.dev Father, husband, Persian/Arabic philologist, programmer
Senior course producer @Boot.dev, non-res. fellow @FUBerlin
Socdem, civil libertarian, anti-identitarian
https://www.theobeers.com/
John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
Leonie Böttiger @leonieboettiger.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at MPIWG Berlin researching premodern Arabic recipe collections related to crafts. Interested in languages, literature & translation. Editor at ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
I write about my research at arabicrecipes.hypotheses.org
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
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.
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
Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project site: invisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
Edith X Chen @exchen.bsky.social Asst Prof of Pre-Modern Middle East @ U of Utah | Islamic History | Mongols | Global Middle Ages | Local History | PhD Princeton NES | An Islamicist who dabbles in Mongol stuff than the other way around, but let's not get too pedantic
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Javi Albarrán 🍉 @jalbarran.bsky.social Loving husband, proud father and passionate historian of the Medieval Islamic West at the University of Granada. Living the Albayzin. Writing on the loss of al-Andalus, Crusades in al-Andalus, jihad, Andalusi Christians, Andalusi memory... Antifascist.
JRad @radinje.bsky.social PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa
Fatimid History @fatimid.bsky.social Historian of West Asia and the Persianate world with a focus on the Fatimids. Subscribe here https://fatimid.substack.com?r=4szyls&utm_medium=ios
Jon Hoover @jhoover04.bsky.social Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
Euroopan rajalla? @euroopanrajalla.bsky.social #Turkey & neighbouring regions, human rights, politics, political violence | #HJK & Finnish football | Dogs | Tea, not coffee | EN, FI, TR.
Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
Gabriel Gavin @gabrielgavin.bsky.social Covering diplomacy, the European Union and the world with POLITICO — and writing Brussels Playbook. Author ‘Ashes of our Fathers,’ published Jan. 2025.
Joshua Kucera @joshuakucera.bsky.social Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group. https://t.co/5NNXBYA2ec
Andro @thisisandro.bsky.social Tbilisian in Kraków. Making a relocation from Twitter. Interest in Tbilisi stories, some politics & enjoy a good podcast. Arsenal fan. Not on here to pick fights.
Karena Avedissian @karena1.bsky.social Eurasian politics and foreign affairs, covering Russia, former Soviet space, Turkey and Syria. I focus on conflicts, political crises & narratives. Senior Analyst RCDS.am. Member @fromtheperiphery.com. Fellow thersa.org. Substack: itskarena.com
OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
Dominik K Cagara @dkcagara.bsky.social Co-founder and CFO at @ocmedia.bsky.social. Pronounced [t͡saˈɡara]. 🇵🇱🇪🇺
Cavid Ağa @cavid.info You know who I am
Mariam Nikuradze @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social Reporter and photojournalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Co-founder and Executive Director at OC Media
Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social Researcher focused on Azerbaijan, authoritarianism, nationalism. Post-structuralist, into Lacan, Laclau, Derrida, Zizek. Currently doing PhD in Political Science at Charles University in Prague.
Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social 
Shota Hintsagty @hintsagty.bsky.social Interested in religion and nationalism, gender and queer politics, and media and democracy, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Doctoral researcher at Lund University. https://linktr.ee/hintsagty
Robin Fabbro @robinfabbro.bsky.social Serial procrastinator and editor-in-chief at OC Media. Host of the Caucasus Digest podcast.
Caucasus Survey @caucasussurvey.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal publishing social science and humanities research on the Caucasus. Website: https://brill.com/view/journals/casu/casu-overview.xml
Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social Interest in policy, think tanks, Caucasus, dogs, ethics. Teach at Ilia State University.
Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social |🇬🇪Georgia|🏔️Caucasus | Strictly personal | Raadslid D66 Delft (cie Ruimte & Verkeer: mobiliteit & energietransitie)
www: https://eastwatch.eu
will neal @willneal.bsky.social writer, investigative journalist | 2025 Livingston Award finalist, Amnesty Media Award shortlistee | 2024 John Schofield Trust fellow | contact via willneal.org/
Felix Light @felixlight.bsky.social Reuters Central Asia correspondent
Giorgi Koberidze @koberidze.bsky.social Political analyst;
Professor at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).
Political commentator on International Security.
Guga Chomakhidze @gugachomakhidze.bsky.social Researcher | Europe, Eurasia & Caucasus | Seen in @ForeignPolicy.com, @France24.com, @cepa.org and @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Sam Harshbarger @samharshbarger.bsky.social Writer and researcher interested in the history and politics of Eurasia.
Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social Droa Party Foreign Affairs. Lecturer, researcher. CEE Europe & Central Asia. University of St Andrews alumna.
Aspiring to foster a tangible Democracy, Inc.