Abigail MacBain
Premodern Japan scholar at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in early Japanese overseas relations and Buddhism as a medium for global awareness. Not wholly sure how this side of social media works. Overshares dog pictures.
@uoe-llc.bsky.social
An international community at the heart of the University of Edinburgh bringing together over 3,000 staff and students. https://llc.ed.ac.uk/
@asmurphy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Modern Japanese literature, media, performance @ Clark University, RIJS Postdoc @ Harvard University 2024-25
@aikerots.bsky.social
Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Oslo. Interested in rituals, heritage, environment, whales, goddesses. Books: Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan (2017); Sacred Heritage in Japan (2020); Water Powers (forthcoming).
@piercesalguero.bsky.social
Author, scholar, teacher, fan, and critic of Buddhism & Asian medicine.
@barbarianniche.bsky.social
Archaeologist & historian of Japan in Eurasia at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. Fellow Royal Historical Society. Author 'Europe and the End of Medieval Japan' (https://tinyurl.com/2cmcwmwt)
@johnggrisafi.bsky.social
PhD in Religious Studies, Yale University | Korean religions, Korean Studies, Asian religions, religion & modernity, discursive study & epistemology of religion, politics of religion, religion & place, historiography/memory of religion, marginal religions
@bambros.bsky.social
Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Animals and religion, gender and sexuality studies, place and space.
@buddhismviews.bsky.social
Buddhist Studies, engaged Buddhism, eco-Buddhism, ethnocentric Buddhism. Programme Director for Religious Studies and the MSc in Buddhist Studies at the School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh. .
@hseparker.bsky.social
Intolerant liberal, aggressive pacifist, less paradoxical Japanophile. PR now (if not sooner). Still European. 🗣️🇬🇧🇯🇵🇫🇷 🎭🧡💚🖤[歌舞伎] 🐈🎶🔶🇪🇺
@danamirsalis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
@imorianderson.bsky.social
Sometimes scholar of Japanese Christianity and empire, sometimes curator of Japanese American stuff. I also knit and sew. And travel as often as possible. Also cat mom to Imogen the orange.
@baffellierica.bsky.social
Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
@bacheletpe.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. (MCF) in East/Southeast Asian History, ENS de Lyon/Institut d'Asie Orientale. Cross cultural relations, maritime circulations, Japan and Vietnam.
@nccjapaninfo.bsky.social
Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻 http://nccjapan.org/
@asianstudies.org
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
@hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social
Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍UTokyo/Temple | 社会文化言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
@joybrennan.bsky.social
Buddhist philosophy, early Yogacara in India and China. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center, raising my daughter, learning the native plants of central Ohio.
@jstarling.bsky.social
Chair of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark | Author of Guardians of the Buddha's Home | Research interests: being a Buddhist laywoman in modern Japan; ethics and emotions in religious volunteerism; religion in public in contemporary Japan
@jjrs-nirc.bsky.social
The official account of the JJRS and NIRC. Follow for publications and event announcements. https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp
@hannahgould.bsky.social
Researching death, technology and religion. Future food for worms.
@profstorm.bsky.social
Professor, author, former rocker. My books: "The Invention of Religion in Japan," "The Myth of Disenchantment," and "Metamodernism" http://bit.ly/3dzW6ux
@igaitanidis.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Chiba University (Japan); Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan (2022); Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-ed., 2024); Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (co-ed., 2025) https://researchmap.jp/gaitanidis
@womenof1000.bsky.social
Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/ PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music. she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
@mmdives.bsky.social
Maritime archaeologist and historian focusing on premodern Japan. Faculty at UW-Whitewater.
@drchrisharding.bsky.social
Cultural historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh. Writing about Japan, India & East-West encounter. Author of the IlluminAsia substack 👉 IlluminAsia.substack.com 👉 http://christopher-harding.com
@takeshimoristo.bsky.social
Lecturer in Non-Western Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in decolonising philosophy & higher education with world philosophies.
@gec2112.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of History & East Asian Studies. Early China Scholar. All comments my own; reposts are not endorsements.
@criticasianstds.bsky.social
Critical Asian Studies publishes scholarly articles that challenge accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.
@sisjac.bsky.social
Promotes leading research on Japanese visual cultures. Affiliated with the University of East Anglia. https://linktr.ee/Sainsbury_Institute
@mgwatson.bsky.social
Premodernist. Retired from teaching but not from research (nō drama, medieval Japanese prose writings). Moved to Iwaki, Fukushima-ken, after 44 years living in Yokohama and Tokyo. Photos of sea, mountains etc. posted to Pinksky and Instagram (wldnsmkt).
@elodiepascal.bsky.social
PhD Student in #JapaneseArtHistory at the University of Edinburgh Focus on #buddhistsculptures and their hidden contents Also working on emotions and gender studies
@jdrian.bsky.social
Japanese reference librarian. Scholar of premodern Japanese religions and literature. Dabbles in DH. This account reflects my private views and does not represent the views of my employer.
@brianruppert.bsky.social
Professor, authority on premodern Japanese religion. Author of "Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan" (Harvard U. Asia Center) and co-author, "A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism" (Wiley-Blackwell).
@margiburge.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Colorado Boulder; early Korea/early Japan. 百濟萬歳
@kurtishanlon.bsky.social
A lecturer in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Yale University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Designated departmental baker (he/him) Signal: kurtishanlon.33
@astanley711.bsky.social
Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
@mcmullen.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.
@christinalaffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
@paularcurtis.bsky.social
Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/ Support open-access projects: http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
@yanaiinitiative.bsky.social
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities: UCLA & Waseda University reimagining the Japanese humanities for the world.
@kml.muninn.net
Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
@mpitelka.bsky.social
Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
@noxon.bsky.social
R-GIRO Assistant Professor @ Ritsumeikan. Prehistoric archaeology, demography, mobility, & 3D scanning. Archaeology stories with a focus on Japan. He/him ArchaeoJapan on that other app...
@sudasana.bsky.social
無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; 🇨🇦🏴; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info
@matthew-hayes.bsky.social
Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies at Duke University. Researcher in Japanese Buddhist Studies. he/him
@halleoneal.bsky.social
Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
@ninahorisakichr.bsky.social
Art Historian (Lecturer, UCLA), Curator, Writer, Translator, and sometimes artist (she/her)