Erin Galgay Walsh
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College | Syriac literature, late antiquity, biblical interpretation | Editor-in-Chief ancientjewreview.com
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Syriac Studies
A list of scholars and organizations connected to the field of Syriac Studies broadly conceived!
@kristianheal.bsky.social
Scholar of Syriac Literature in Late Antiquity, textual transmission, manuscript cultures, and the history of scholarship. Happiest surrounded by books or the English countryside.
@remikalir.bsky.social
Associate Director, Faculty Development and Applied Research, Duke University Order “Re/Marks on Power” from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/ Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher: https://remikalir.com/
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
@newyorker.com
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
@carrielarocco.bsky.social
Classicist / Early Medievalist at Oxford. Working on: female patronage in the late- and post-Roman west; late Roman + Visigothic Iberia. Sometimes I make Roman recipes ☺️ (she/her) #MosaicMonday ♾️
@davidhogg.bsky.social
@flannobriensoc.bsky.social
The International Flann O’Brien Society Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan Profile pic by David O'Kane
@helenking.bsky.social
Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
@womanistprof67.bsky.social
Flora’s Daughter, Author, Professor of Religion (NT), Womanist, Podcaster, Traveler, Stroke Survivor
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@emilydcrews.bsky.social
Executive Director Marty Center at UChiDivinity. Historian of religions in US/Africa. Relig + gender, reproductive politics, art, abolition. She/her/hers
@reubenlillie.com
📚 Student at UChicago Divinity School 🎭 Operatic Tenor 🍞🍷 Pastor at loopnaz.org 🏰 White Castle Cravers Hall of Fame 🔗 reubenlillie.com
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
@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://pastsimperfect.substack.com
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@tbsailors.bsky.social
Specialist in the academic study of ancient Christianity and its literature.
@adapalmer.bsky.social
Novelist (SF, fantasy), historian (Renaissance Europe, intellectual history, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Viking stuff), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, cool photos of history (#SomethingBeautiful) Blog exurbe.com
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@salvadorryan.bsky.social
Native of Moneygall. Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth. Loves teaching & writing, and has published widely on social, cultural and religious history, medieval to modern. Editor, Irish Theological Quarterly.
@wolffdr.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Religion and WGSS. I teach on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and ethics. My research focuses on intersex and trans justice. They/them. Wish I was paddle boarding. https://www.dukeupress.edu/body-problems
@dekayra.bsky.social
Art historian, PhD candidate @VU Amsterdam Medieval Syriac manuscripts, inscriptions, materiality, digital projects Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
@teemutaira.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion. Researching public discourses on religion; atheism and nonreligion; religion and news media; methodology. Author of Taking "Religion" Seriously (2022) and other books. https://teemutaira.wordpress.com
@historicalstudies.bsky.social
History, literature, art history, philosophy, cultural heritage, museum studies, languages, and much more at CEU! A global department with students and faculty from more than 30 countries: https://historicalstudies.ceu.edu/
@gorgiaspress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of books and journals in history, languages, and religious studies, specifically Biblical Studies, Syriac and Eastern Christianity, Jewish Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. "Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge" since 2001!
@monicamitri.bsky.social
Egyptian, Coptic, PhD candidate in religion at USC. Dabbled in theology, business & literature. Love books and tea. https://usc.academia.edu/MonicaMitri
@riccardiswartz.bsky.social
assistant prof of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. first gen. book w/ Fordham University Press. current projects: trad futurisms/digital dissidents.
@andrewtucker.bsky.social
Christian, PhD candidate at SLU, etc. Mostly basketball stuff.
@aartela.bsky.social
The Bluesky account of the American Academy of Religion Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit.
@madalinatoca.bsky.social
Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
@bergdenker.bsky.social
Late Antiquity, Syriac Studies, Digital Humanities. I promise I'll write something clever after one more cup of coffee. (he, him)
@acbm.bsky.social
Aramaics, Coptic, Gəʕəz, Arabic, Iran. langs, Turk. langs, Old Georgian, Old Armenian 🎸🌱🍄☕️ Research Assoc., CSWR/HDS Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) https://tinyurl.com/494v9n59 The Pearlsong https://tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
@astrezh.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UChicago Political Science. http://www.antonstrezhnev.com
@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social
Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Author of two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions mine. 13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, next up 26.
@clukasik.bsky.social
Faculty Leave Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies | Assistant Professor of Religion at Mississippi State University | religion, race, migration, empire candacelukasik.com
@bahartung.bsky.social
Teaching Professor, Arizona State University When I have time, I research and write on late antiquity, early Christianity, Syriac literature My book: https://brill.com/display/title/68207?language=en
@lsnasrallah.bsky.social
Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
@younan.bsky.social
Chaldean priest & philosophy prof. Aramaic, Aristotle, phil/science, liturgy, misanthropy. I do not have a podcast. I do have a #garbagecat.
@emmanouelagrypeou.bsky.social
Prof. History of Christianity, Stockholm; Ph.D. Christian Orient,Tübingen; apocalypses, illuminated mss, early music, poetry, coffee, chocolate and cats
@jennisifire.bsky.social
Scholar, late antiquity nerd, professor, and author of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover and Bishops in Flight https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bishops-in-flight/paper
@medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social
Historian of the Middle East c. 950-1500 CE, but I teach much more broadly. I'm writing a book about religious diversity in an illiberal society. https://www.thomasacarlson.com/ https://medievalmideast.org/ https://www.cambridge.org/9781107186279 he/ܗܘ/هو
@biblemonger.bsky.social
Scholar of the languages and literature of the Ancient Near East. Focusing on reception history, manuscripts, and material philology. MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo. On YouTube as Biblemonger
@jacculturelmu.bsky.social
The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures. www.lmu.de/jewisharabiccultures
@goodacre.bsky.social
Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. Host of the NT Pod. I post on New Testament, Christian origins, ABBA, and Doctor Who.
@phildorroll.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Religion at Wofford College in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦