Arunima Datta (PhD, FRHistS)
Historian. Author. Associate Professor.
Studies: Britain, British Empire, South & Southeast Asia, women’s history, labor and migration history
Author of:
Waiting on Empire (OUP, 2023)
Fleeting Agencies (CUP, 2021)
@juliahauser.bsky.social
Entangled history of Europe,South Asia and the Middle East. "German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill, 2015). "A Taste for Purity. An Entangled History of Vegetarianism"(NY:Columbia University Press, 2024). https://www.julia-hauser.de
@navyug.bsky.social
Historian, toiling in the archives & classroom | Eyes on labor history, popular culture, postcolonial critique, global capitalism | ਪੰਜਾਬ to پنجاب to Panjab
@kamamaclean.bsky.social
Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
@christinawelsch.bsky.social
Historian of colonial India; Author of The Company's Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644-1858.
@andreamajor.bsky.social
Historian of C18 and C19 Britain, India and empire, esp. East India Company colonialism, sati, slavery and social reform. Views my own etc. She/her.
@historysunny.bsky.social
Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
@kieranhazzard.bsky.social
Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.
@simonwfuchs.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
@himalmag.bsky.social
Southasia’s magazine of politics and culture. Get our newsletters in your inbox: bit.ly/HimalNewsletters
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
@swatichawla.bsky.social
Historian (Himalaya, migration, Buddhisms, DH); Associate Professor at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, via @scholarslab.bsky.social, UVa History, and Sacred Writes.
@uclacisa.bsky.social
The Center for India and South Asia (CISA) supports research, hosts public lectures and workshops, and collaborates with other institutions and centers to raise the profile of South Asia on campus and, more generally, in Southern California.
@iowcmcgill.bsky.social
Research centre at McGill University studying the history, economy, & cultures of the Indian Ocean world from China to Southeast & South Asia, the Middle East & Africa. https://indianoceanworldcentre.com/
@icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech. Disappointing people since 1972.
@abalasub.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU School of History Working on Roads Book: Toward a Free Economy @princetonupress.bsky.social Order: http://tinyurl.com/5andt77x (USA/UK) http://tinyurl.com/2p88pvmv (India)
@mariaframke.bsky.social
Historian of modern South Asia, interested in humanitarianism and rural development & women, Berlin and Oderbruch fan
@olebirklaursen.bsky.social
anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'Anarchy or Chaos: M. P. T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom' (2023) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy-or-chaos/
@emmakale.bsky.social
Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia.
@chapatimystery.com
historian, walker. Author, *A Book of Conquest*, *The Loss of Hindustan*, and, most recently, *Disrupted City* https://history.columbia.edu/person/manan-ahmed/
@kalramnath.bsky.social
writing and teaching histories of 19 and 20c South Asia and the Indian Ocean World
@debssutton.bsky.social
Teaches South Asian History at Lancaster University, UK. Currently working on deserts in India, especially soils, water and salination. Delhiphile and runner.
@sjlegg.bsky.social
@manionjen.bsky.social
Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Liberty’s Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
@echomikeromeo.bsky.social
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow
@jecca.bsky.social
Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her
@mybisa.bsky.social
British International Studies Association - Engaging the global international studies community. We're known for our working groups, journals, postgraduate network, funding, conference and more! Website: www.bisa.ac.uk
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@amandazillo.bsky.social
Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | Current ACLS Fellow | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
@lydiawalker.bsky.social
Historian of global decolonization at Ohio State Author of STATES-IN-WAITING https://linktr.ee/lydia_walker
@thenacbs.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
@jmwillis.bsky.social
Historian, Kentuckian. Stuff about Yemen, S. Asia, Arabian Peninsula, and all things guitar . . . https://www.johnwillishistory.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@WalthomstowC/featured https://johnmwillis.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine
@fieryparticle.bsky.social
Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️ Agent: David Higham, https://rb.gy/t8twa https://linktr.ee/lbeers
@ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social
Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
@taylorcsherman.bsky.social
Professor of South Asian History. Researching histories of environmental regeneration, 1940s-present. Nehru and all that, too. Working from Bidjigal land at UNSW Sydney Privately seeking research on ADHD, ASD, OCD, ALD & ABI
@amritamalhi.bsky.social
History & Politics Malaya/Malaysia/Malay World @HRC_anu, #CHASS @flinders & IPRC @Murdoch. Visiting Fellow, ISEAS-Yusuf Ishak Institute. Former Asia-Pacific Research & Evaluation Head in the Humanitarian & Development sector. Retweet/like not endorsement
@eldrclaire.bsky.social
Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
@mitrasharafi.bsky.social
Legal historian at the University of Wisconsin Law School & President-elect, American Society for Legal History. History of forensic science, law books & legal education. Parsi legal culture. South Asia & British empire. Also dogs! Views my own.
@diyagupta.bsky.social
Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (2023) #happyeveryday
@paulmcgarr.bsky.social
Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
@ranasafvi.bsky.social
historian, translator, author deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilizational legacy. Author of the Delhi trilogy and In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India, A Firestorm in Paradise
@qmcbs.bsky.social
Queen Mary Centre for British Studies Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
@tkinias.bsky.social
Historian researching race & whiteness, late-19C/early-20C British Empire (esp Aus & Can), teaching broadly in world and Euro history. Linux geek & SF nerd. Texas by way of Colo., Mass., Ariz., Ind., and Egypt. Views my own and likely ill-informed.
@jricole.bsky.social
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics; Signal: Juan Cole
@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
@annikabaerwald.bsky.social
Historian & teacher | researching slavery and the lives of people of color in 18th- and 19th-century Hamburg | PhD'ing at Universität Bremen | she