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Adam Russell Taylor @revadamtaylor.bsky.social President, Sojourners. New book “A More Perfect Union” available now. Passionate social justice advocate & bridge builder. Ordained Baptist minister.
Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social American Religions PhD candidate at UVA | UVA Mormon Studies podcast "Scholars & Saints" host | cat dad | bagpiper
Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bring…(Pessoa)
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I reject fanaticism and outdated orthodoxies!
Ty Andersen @ty-j-andersen.bsky.social Dad | Speech & Cinema Instructor | Restorationist Historian | Angler | Huskers | NE ➡️ ID ➡️ TX
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Logan Call @loganrcall.bsky.social Social psychology Ph.D. candidate at U of Utah | PPP Lab | attitudes, persuasion, group relations | he/him
brandt @brandtmalone.bsky.social retired Mormon podcaster; exhausted girldad; slurpee sommelier; zero sugar Mountain Dew coursing my veins 
Liminal LDS @liminal-lds.bsky.social Metaphorically occupying a spot in the foyer. In the building, but staying aware of, and close to, the exits.
Ask me about the scratchy wall covering.
Jeffrey Howard @jeffrey-howard.bsky.social I write about what happens to us when we lose community and a sense of place—ecologically, politically, spiritually. | MA Student @NYU | Bylines: KUOW, Front Porch Republic, The Paper, Shareable, The Click, Erraticus| https://commonappalachian.substack.com
@uvamormonstudies.bsky.social @uvamormonstudies.bsky.social 
Mister Jones @misterjones.bsky.social Interested in - Science, History, Hiking, Programming, Urbanism, Transit, Spirituality, Cultures, Good Books, What Makes People Tick, and basically everything else under the sun.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan. 
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social Historian @ UCBerkeley | Author: Enlisting Faith http://tinyurl.com/yyh2p4tq | current project: religious hospitals & conscience rights | sometimes quilts, sometimes climbs | posts my own | she/her
Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social African American religious history & religion and race in America.
https://www.judithweisenfeld.com/
New-ish: Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU Press)
Kathryn Gin Lum @kginlum.bsky.social Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
Austin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame | PhD ‘26 Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | ASU West alum
Jenny Caplan @jennycaplan.bsky.social Associate Professor and Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Sports fan and professional geek.
Author of Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Editor of Wit Happens
drjennifercaplan.com
Peter J. Thuesen @peterjthuesen.bsky.social Historian of American religion. Writing a book on Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing (1895-1970), who was loved more for his humanity than his consistency. Previous books: Tornado God (OUP), Predestination (OUP), In Discordance with the Scriptures (OUP).
Gale Kenny @galekenny.bsky.social Historian of US religion // knitter // author of Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire (NYU Press)
Katie Ludlow Rich @katieludlowrich.bsky.social Award winning Historian • Ghostwriter
Centering Mormon women in their history and helping clients tell the stories that matter most—their own. Co-writer Fifty Years of Exponent II.
https://linktr.ee/KatieLudlowRich
Rachel Lindsey, PhD @rmclindsey.bsky.social mom, associate professor of American Religion and Culture at Saint Louis University, lives in STL
wants to read books, lift weights, and hang out with my doggos
Ben Wright @ben-wright.bsky.social Historian. Teacher. Author. Cheesehead. Springnut.
drbenwright.com
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Kate Carte @kecarte.bsky.social Early Americanist, mom, runner, fiction buff, yarn arts for meditation, but not with much skill.
Daniel Vaca @danielvaca.bsky.social assoc. prof. @ Brown University | author of *Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America* (Harvard, 2019) | writing about religion + inequity + taxes + visions of the common good | danielvaca.com
Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social American historian, religion, environment, pop culture, the South. Author: The Devil's Music (Harvard, 2018). Prof of Am & Brit Studies, Univ of Oslo. Fulbright alumnus.
Marie Griffith @mariegriffith.bsky.social US religious history, gender & sexuality studies, religion & politics. Professor at WashU in St. Louis. Writing a book on clergy sexual abuse across American Christianity. https://rap.wustl.edu/people/r-marie-griffith/ 
Max Perry Mueller @maxperrymueller.bsky.social Widower, father, writer.
Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social research on the misuses of history in repro law | organizing and labor solidarity forever | PVD (for now)
Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social Historian of religion and politics in the US specializing in Gilded Age and Progressive Era, reform movements, and religious debates about American democracy.
Views are my own, not my employer’s. Likes and reposts are not endorsements.
Monica L. Mercado @monicalmercado.bsky.social so-called lady scholar & scholar of ladies | associate professor of history @colgate.edu | usually thinking about Catholic girlhoods, special collections, upstate utopias, and convent road trips 🎀 📚 👩🏻💻 🚗 | she/her
Margaret Hamm @margjhamm.bsky.social religion phd candidate at harvard | studying religion, gender, & law in modern america | she/her
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
Jonathan D. Riddle @jonathandriddle.bsky.social Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America 
Heather D Curtis @heatherdcurtis.bsky.social Historian of American Religion. Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities @ Tufts. 
Kelsey Hanson Woodruff @khansonwoodruff.bsky.social Researching and writing about American Christianity, gender, media, and politics.
Postdoc at Wesleyan University.
Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social Sparrow, lichen, music fan account
Bird guide in the BC Cariboo
Occasional scholar of of religious history
Exile from the Salish Sea
Jodi Eichler-Levine @jeichlerlevine.bsky.social Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization, Lehigh *
Author, PAINTED POMEGRANATES AND NEEDLEPOINT RABBIS
writing a new book on Disney/religion
optional running+cat content
https://jodieichlerlevine.com/
https://religion.cas.lehigh.edu/faculty-staff/jodi-eic
Rev. Emily Nelms Chastain, PhD @enc.bsky.social Displaced Southerner. Historian of American religion, gender, women’s ordination, & Methodism. Ordained UMC Deacon. BU Theology PhD. Perkins/SMU Faculty. UAB Blazer alum. ❤️: Cuppas, BBQ, porchsits, southern things, cats.
Ansley Quiros @ansleyquiros.bsky.social Historian, Author, Teacher, Alabama resident. Writing "Committed: The Lives, Work, and Love of Charles and Shirley Sherrod." More thank you notes than posts.
https://www.ansleyquiros.com/
Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
Sergio González @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social Historian of Midwestern Latinos, labor, religion, and sanctuary. Author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th Century Wisconsin.
Hilde Løvdal Stephens @hildelstephens.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of American Studies, Uni of Oslo. Book: Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home (2019). Interests: religion, education, political culture. Fulbright alumna.
Chip Callahan @chipcallahan.bsky.social Religious Studies prof. Folklorist.
Author, Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust. Co-Editor, The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Religion and Popular Culture.
Currently: religious history of oceanic resource extraction (whaling)
Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social writer. mother. gremlin. PhD. MFA. author: Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl & Sexism Ed. co-host: @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social Historian of religion & race, archives, media/tech/comm, politics of education. History Prof & Dir. of Religious Studies @ University of Minnesota. Au: Christian Slavery (2018) and Archival Irruptions (2025). www.katharinegerbner.com
David Mislin @davidmislin.bsky.social Historian of 19th 20th + 21st c. US religion. Temple U. faculty. Wrote about Protestants + pluralism. Now writing on religious liberals in small towns. Once and (hopefully) future marathoner. Tired political junkie. Sheetz/Wawa equal opportunist. He/him.
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Colby Townsend @colbytownsend.bsky.social Dual PhD student (English/religious studies) @ IU Bloomington studying religion and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He/him
Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
Casey A’Hearn @caseylogana0122.bsky.social PhD student @ Princeton (Religion in Americas) - scholar of mormonism - digital humanities - blog.clahearn.com
Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social Birdwatching Historian of Birdwatching
Associate Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
Abbey Shimer @aeshimer.bsky.social History PhD Candidate researching the beginning of the modern homeschooling movement in the US.
NC ➡️ ND/SD.
Views are my own and do not reflect my employer.
Tisa Wenger @tisawenger.bsky.social Historian of American religion, religious freedom, US Empire. New book in 2026: Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion. Gardener, permaculturalist, & fermentation nerd.
Leah Payne @drleahpayne.bsky.social Author, God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of CCM
@OUPReligion | Affil. Scholar @PRRI | Pods: @PRX #RTDR | #SpiritandPower | #WeirdReligion
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Mike Pasquier @pasquieractual.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies & History, Louisiana State University
Pod Only Knows @podonlyknows.bsky.social A podcast about religion from two nonreligious religion scholars who care about religion. With @kellyjbaker.bsky.social and @johnbrooks.bsky.social
(Alternately known as Scholars and Swear Words)
BLOG: https://bit.ly/3OhMw14
POD: https://bit.ly/3WnQvxT
John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social Pod Only Knows: https://bit.ly/447CUOH
1999 the Podcast: http://bit.ly/3I211ql
Religious studies person
Abolish ICE, DHS, and golf
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
Angela Tarango @atarango1.bsky.social Academic, knitter, cross stitcher, owned by cats
Elizabeth L Jemison @elizabethjemison.bsky.social I write the history of white Christian racism & teach American religion at Clemson University | Author of *Christian Citizens* UNC Press, 2020.
Paul Putz @paulputz.bsky.social Historian. Director of the Faith & Sports Institute at Baylor’s Truett Seminary. Author of THE SPIRIT OF THE GAME
Into sports, theology, religion, culture, writing, teaching. Also all things Nebraska. James 1:19.
https://linktr.ee/PaulPutz
Brook Wilensky-Lanford @brookwl.bsky.social Author of A GOD-SHAPED NATION and PARADISE LUST, religion writing teacher and editor, eternal student, Chapel Hill cat lady. www.brookwilensky-lanford.com
J Barts, PhD (he/him/his) @jbartashius.bsky.social religion & film/gender/migration. pubs on stranger things/lady bird/fight club. bylines: @japantimes@kyotojournal@civilbeat
@religiondispatches@deepkyoto
https://buymeacoffee.com/jbartashius
Katharine Mershon @profdognerd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion in NC | Author of Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in the US: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
Ben Zeller @zellerben.bsky.social Professor of Religion, scholar of new religious movements, Fulbright Finland alum, cross-country skier, hiker, partner, parent, sometimes-cheesemaker
Ella Hadacek @ellahadacek.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in history at Notre Dame | religious & women/gender historian focusing on the identity & work of Catholic women converts in the long 19th | editorial assistant @modamhist.bsky.social | teaching fellow, Notre Dame London
Irene Oh @ireneoh.bsky.social Religion Professor @GWU
What am I *not* interested in? is the better question...
Author: What is Religious Ethics? | The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights & Comparative Ethics
Editor: Journal of Religious Ethics
Honolulu - Washington, DC
Sarah Dees @sarahdees.bsky.social Professional nerd. American & Indigenous religions. History of museums + science + politics + race + empire (+ Dolly Parton). Editorial team @ Material Religion. My views. she/her.
Maggie Elmore @mjelmore.bsky.social Historian of migration, borders, and immigration policy. Also religion. Reluctant runner. Food person. Cat person. Dog person. Special needs advocate.
Emily Arledge @emarledge.bsky.social Public Historian | SLAC | Cat Lover | Catholicism & Memory
Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social PhD in Religion and Gender focusing on religion in North America and writing about gender performance. Currently doing a post-doc in Ohio.
Andre E. Johnson @aejohnsonphd.bsky.social Award-winning Author and Rhetorical Historian | Professor of Communication | Rhetoric, Race and Religion, Sigma 1914🤘🏾
Thomas “Hank” Owings, Ph.D. @hankowings.bsky.social PhD UPenn 2026 / Political Theory, Religion, Conservatism, American Politics, Middle East / First-gen from rural Ohio / Bahá’í / History Faculty at Virginia Episcopal School
Chad Brooks @revchadbrooks.bsky.social Congregational Vitality with UMC in Louisiana.
🎙10 years stewarding #ProductivePastor.
Obsessive about the devotional life, sociology, and biblical theology in the Wesleyan way.
I write weekly | https://bit.ly/heychadbrooks
Peter Jauhiainen @peterjauhiainen.bsky.social Religion prof; Kirkwood Community College. Samuel Hopkins/New Divinity specialist. Interested in White Christian Nationalism, Religious Right/Public Education.
Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | Writing a book about African Canadian leader Rev. Richard Preston (1791-1861) in Virginia, England, and Nova Scotia.
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
for more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
Kerith Woodyard @kerith.bsky.social Associate Professor. Argumentation, Advocacy, Rhetoric of Religion. #TeamRhetoric
Katie Heatherly @katielheatherly.bsky.social Notre Dame History PhD Student studying the history of religion, gender & sexuality.
Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social Historian of modern American religion and culture
Notre Dame PhD Candidate
formed by Holy Cross College, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and Marquette U
Rue McClanahan’s illegitimate husband- @jonnie5000.bsky.social No dm’s-ever. S.O.S. The bad: Donald & Vladimir are terrorists. The beautiful: Chili Rasbora, Boraras brigittae, also known as the Mosquito Rasbora (above). The ugly: Never trump. Never. Venue is key, for now. Atheist AF. Parma, Ohio.
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Writing Westward Podcast @writingwestward.bsky.social - Monthly conversations with authors & scholars of the North American West.
- Produced & hosted by @BYUReddCenter.bsky.social Assoc. Director & History Professor @BrendenWRensink.bsky.social
- https://writingwestward.org
Daily Mormon @dailymormon.bsky.social Curated images of Mormondom in the wild, delivered daily. DMs open for submissions.
Matt Basso @mattbasso.bsky.social War and Society, Labor, Masculinity, Race, Public History -- US and Aotearoa; Cattle Doggos, Kiddos, Cooking, Skiing, Biking, and Cocktails (Go Astros!)
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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social genetics BS ➡️ history MA ➡️ PharmD | 🌈🏳️⚧️ | MECFS | 🇨🇦 | any/all