Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion
We promote conversation on material & visual cultures of religion
Sensory Cultures Research Group
MAVCOR Journal
Digital Spaces Project
http://mavcor.yale.edu
@katzcenterupenn.bsky.social
The University of Pennsylvania's research center for the study of Jewish civilization —linking scholars to scholars, researchers to resources, and ideas to the wider world.
@drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com
Art historian/lecturer at weird medieval architectural history projects incorporated. always for hire. www.stainedglassattitudes.com https://ko-fi.com/stainedglassattitudes
@periodeye.bsky.social
Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
@davidbowles.us
Writer. Translator. Nahuatlahtoh. Chicano. He/él/yehhua. Pan [💖💛💙]. Representation: Full Circle Literary and Inclusion Management. Co-editor-in-chief of Chispa Comics. President of the Texas Institute of Letters.
@qucl.bsky.social
Launched in 2014, qUCL is a university-wide initiative that brings together UCL staff and students with research and teaching interests in LGBTQ studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory and related fields.
@xineyaophd.bsky.social
DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine from the colonies https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
@antheabutler.bsky.social
Professor, Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller.
@georgetakei.bsky.social
I’ve boldly gone into the clear blue yonder. Follow for more recipes and tips.
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@eladiobobadilla.com
Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, radicalism and extremism, the working class, and immigration and ethnicity. Father. Autism advocate. Duke, Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Riverhounds, RSL, USM&WNT, Liverpool, St. Pauli.
@jalaneschmidt.bsky.social
Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽🏫🗣️#Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer. Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
@eveewing.bsky.social
I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@kellyjbaker.bsky.social
writer. mother. little gremlin. PhD. MFA student. author of Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl, etc. co-host of @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
@emily-ogden.bsky.social
Essayist and English professor. Books: On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (Peninsula Press / U of Chicago Press); Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (U of Chicago Press)
@themodsisyphus.bsky.social
Settler. Religion, media, & culture scholar. Writing on digital hate & extremism, ritual, & Hindu/tva publics. Animal lover, anti-caste, anti-racist, anti-hate, anti-fascist. No response to trolls. RP ⍯ Endorsement; BLM, FREE PALESTINE all posts personal
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@portersf.bsky.social
asst prof religious studies, gonzaga u early christianity // material culture // archaeology
@kwazana.bsky.social
I write about food. Mom. Professor, c19 US and gender studies department chair. Moroccan Arab Jew. Radical diasporism. Winner of the James Beard, Lora Romero, Best Book in Food Studies and Choice Awards. “Can Run Meetings” 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
@profkfh.bsky.social
Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
@emilyjohnson.bsky.social
Historian of religion, politics, & sexuality in the U.S. Currently writing about satanic panics and other culture wars. Love cats, cooking, kitsch, and quiet. Strong opinions about stationery. she/her
@monicalmercado.bsky.social
so-called lady scholar and scholar of ladies | usually writing or thinking about Catholic girlhoods, female rage, feminist interventions in the museum, and convent road trips 🚗📚👩🏻💻🎀 | @colgate.edu prof | she/her
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ CUNY• Black studies • PhDJ• order my new book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday, 2025). https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/ www.taoleighgoffe.com Harvard Kennedy School fellow
@kginlum.bsky.social
Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
@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.
@joelblecher.com
History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | ex-berliner, sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
@andrewquintman.bsky.social
Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
@drsepinwall.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Lover of Music and Film. Jersey girl in California. 2023 Wang Award Winner. Books: Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Rev in Film & Video Games; Haitian History; Abbé Grégoire & the Fr Rev.
@dorothyk98.bsky.social
Medievalist, digital humanist, intersectional feminist, Great Pyrenee person.
@kbgraubart.bsky.social
Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery.
@bydreamphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Insta: @bydreamphd
@mmvty.bsky.social
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
@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 dog
@burnidge.bsky.social
Historian of religion and politics in the US. Researching “progressive” political and religious movements and teaching undergraduates about religious diversity in the US and what they can do with their Religious Studies majors.
@ccjones.bsky.social
Historian of religion + race in North America + the Atlantic World. Editor, Journal of Mormon History. Also #BHAFC / #RSL.
@jolyonbt.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Faking Liberties (2019), Drawing on Tradition (2012); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025). Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17249. Web: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
@mccutcheonsays.bsky.social
I’m University Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. I was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, weed the yard on the weekends and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
@artstuffmatters.bsky.social
Cultural worker/curator/art historian https://latanyasautry.net/ #MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5 Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
@smothurston.bsky.social
professor of ethics, religion, & politics @ UIUC. focus on democratic practices, citizenship, public schools, abolition, & borders | standard disclaimers stephaniemotathurston.com
@xroadproj.bsky.social
Black Religious Histories, Cultures, Communities (https://crossroads.princeton.edu) Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and Princeton University SPIRIT HOUSE site (https://www.crossroads-spirithouse.org)
@profngong.bsky.social
Scholar of Religions in Africa. Author of *Senghor's Eucharist* (https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481317795/senghors-eucharist/ 2023). Africa Section Editor, Religion Compass. Research: https://stillman.academia.edu/DavidNgong
@emaisner.bsky.social
Politics SotoZenBuddhism Food Writing Art IyengarYoga | Orange County NC Dem precinct chair | Exec Editor Emerita @UNC_Press & love my authors. [above: Sphinx (1964) by Saori Akutagawa Madokoro]
@historians.org
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. http://historians.org/join
@uncpress.bsky.social
The University of North Carolina Press 📖 First University Press in the South 📚 Publishing distinguished books and journals for academics, students, and general readers for over a century
@religiondispatches.org
bringing you religion, culture, and politics since 2008 * award-winning * independent * non-profit * justice-minded * irreverent RD is a @praeyesright.bsky.social publication want to write for RD? check out https://religiondispatches.org/submissions/
@jmormonhist.bsky.social
The Journal of Mormon History is an official publication of the Mormon History Association (MHA). Its purpose is to publish scholarly work covering the full scope of Mormon History. Est. 1974.
@driftinghouse.bsky.social
prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
@tuckeve.bsky.social
@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/