Benjamin Park
Historian, professor, author. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
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American Religion Scholars
Just a collection of overspecialized nerds who study American religion.
@renfro.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. Wrote STRANGER DANGER (Oxford University Press, 2020) and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (UNC Press, 2024). Represented by Calligraph Lit. Father of H and G. He/him.
@aleczreichardt.bsky.social
Historian of 18C North America, Empire, & Infrastructure. Assistant Professor in the Department of History & Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri
@the-jenny-smith.bsky.social
UX designer | Farm caretaker | Mind-speaker Ask me about growing tomatoes. Seriously.
@tkerbs.bsky.social
PhD Psych | Religion M.A. | Education M.A. I’m just trying to get through my day.
@charalba.bsky.social
Artist/Designer in ATL Heretical and hysterical Discontented and disgruntled 🌹🌈
@johncraighammond.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Penn State Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/
@npcox.bsky.social
19th Century US Historian. Two year college advocate. Dean of Liberal Arts, Humanities, and Education, Interim. I’m not here to not make friends.
@anchistjournal.bsky.social
Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
@jcwe.bsky.social
The JCWE—published by @uncpress.bsky.social and @richardscenter.bsky.social —is home to the most creative new work on the many issues raised by slavery, the sectional crisis, war, emancipation, and Reconstruction. https://tinyurl.com/4hnmffeu
@oieahc.bsky.social
We support the scholars and scholarship of early America, broadly understood to mean the Atlantic World between roughly the 1480s and 1820. We publish the William and Mary Quarterly and a series of award-winning books as well as sponsor conferences & more.
@jgienapp.bsky.social
Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
@profsamperry.bsky.social
Professor | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag and The Cross; Religion for Realists | CV: https://tinyurl.com/4hs86ntn
@courtneyltanner.bsky.social
Reporter @sltrib.com in Utah. Fan of bacon + Kevin Bacon. When I'm not working, I'm probably fishing.
@ctrrelpol-washu.bsky.social
Research and teaching center at Washington University in St. Louis focused on the many intersections of religion and U.S. politics. https://rap.wustl.edu/
@elprofebarba.bsky.social
Relig Prof at Amherst College | current research areas: immigration, Pentecostalism, Latino religion, sanctuary movt., & Cesar Chavez | Go Blue!
@wodsidas.bsky.social
Free-range rhetorician. 19c Mormon women’s historian. Anti-dystopian. Does not obey in advance.
@betsygainesquammen.bsky.social
Historian, writer, dog mom, dyslexic. Fighting the bad guys. I track extremists and also research ghost stories. Author of American Zion, True West, and Dead Reckoning, 2027.
@drrachelwagner.bsky.social
Author, Cowboy Apocalypse (2025) and Godwired (2012). Prof of Religious Studies @ Ithaca College, mom & caregiver, disgruntled idealist, loud introvert. Religion, gaming, politics, media, film. #cowboyapocalypse Next book on hope. Follow for hope skeets.
@nancyross.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary prof @ Utah Tech interested in gender/race/sexuality/religion, Mormon feminist, pastor in Community of Christ. She/Her. Opinions are my own.
@terrybouton.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution and Creation of the US Constitution. Author of Taming Democracy. Forthcoming Book: Madison's Mistake: The Rise and Fall of American Monarchism. Democracy Dies in Doomerism. Don't be a Doomer.
@seagillicuddy.bsky.social
PhD in 18th-Cent Brit Lit, AP Seminar teacher and Scholar Bowl coach at a public high school, gardener, knitter, mother, embroiderer, birder, post-Mormon vagabond.
@mattunderscorepage.bsky.social
Artist, collector, family man, xennial, cat dad, ergophobe, anti-fascist, nostalgia obsessive, mostly harmless
@drhknitter.bsky.social
Maker of textiles (knitting, spinning, weaving) and sewist. Historian. Human and greyhound mom. New Yorker in Alabama. Easily amused. Fueled by coffee and seltzer. Fuchsia is my neutral.
@caribabitzke.bsky.social
Historian. Part-time photographer. Aura smells of dog biscuits.
@rosalyneves.bsky.social
reader, writer, English professor. Writing Center director at Southern Utah University, author of YA historical (Beyond the Mapped Stars, An Improbable Season) and historical fantasy (Blood Rose Rebellion). She/her
@rachelhelps.bsky.social
Wikipedian-in-residence at the BYU Library, interactive fiction writer and Mormon literary scholar wannabe. https://rwelean.itch.io/
@josephlaycock.bsky.social
I'm a religious studies professor. I study new religious movements, exorcism, and satanic panic, among other topics. https://sites.google.com/view/joseph-p-laycock/
@centblckmormons.bsky.social
Century of Black Mormons is a digital history database designed to recover what was lost--the identities of Black Mormons from 1830 to 1930. Visit the database at www.CenturyofBlackMormons.org
@mehrsab.bsky.social
Law Professor, Author of Quiet Coup, Color of Money, and How the Other Half Banks. https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/mehrsa-baradaran/
@bbayne.bsky.social
Historian | Religious Studies | Indigenous Studies | UNC Chapel Hill
@michaelstahl.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University, Ph.D. from NYU in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (2018), book: https://brill.com/display/title/57242, He/his/him.
@ctounsel1.bsky.social
Believer | Happy husband and dad | Associate Professor of History & Director of African Studies, University of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP) UW bio: https://history.washington.edu/people/christopher-tounsel
@wcaleb.org
Professor of History at Rice University and author of "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America" (Pulitzer Prize, 2020). Cross-posting from https://updates.wcaleb.org
@wheatleyjt.bsky.social
Teach & research religion in US history & culture. Secular governance, conflict, fanaticism. Also cephalopods. NBA and Suns fan. #religiousstudies #history #iowastate www.jeffreywheatley.com
@lioneltrolling.bsky.social
dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from @fsgbooks https://www.unpopularfront.news/
@melkatrey.bsky.social
History prof at TCU. Thinking about early modern European medicine & science, gender & the body, manuscripts & print. Author of Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago, 2024). Co-editor of The Recipes Project.
@vmcfarland.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Missouri. Studying energy history and U.S. foreign relations.
@csraac.bsky.social
https://raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/ The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUI explores the connection between religion and other aspects of American culture.
@tj-stiles.bsky.social
American historian and biographer. Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America" Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
@mikehixenbaugh.com
NBC News senior reporter | Author of THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS | Co-creator of SOUTHLAKE & GRAPEVINE podcasts | Retired t-ball coach www.mikehixenbaugh.com
@mhs1791.bsky.social
Massachusetts Historical Society, f. 1791: First Historical Society in the US. Research library, programs, exhibitions, & online resources.