Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at UMD
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland is one of the leading centers for Persian Studies in the world, and the home of the Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities.
https://sllc.umd.edu/fields/persian
@umdenglish.bsky.social
Department of English at the University of Maryland. We teach students how to think critically, communicate clearly and create fearlessly. Literary & Cultural Studies | Language, Writing & Rhetoric | Creative Writing | Media Studies | english.umd.edu
@marjaanmoosavi.bsky.social
Assistant Cl. Prof., PhD, Persian Studies, Theatre Scholar, UMD
@mtmiller.bsky.social
Asst Prof, U Maryland. Islamicate Affect/Emotion, Sufism, Digital Humanities, Persian literature, Lit of Islamic & Middle Eastern Revolutionary Movements, Labor. On Piscataway Land. Proud Member: AAUP (@aaup.bsky.social), AFT (@aftunion.bsky.social)
@theoknights.bsky.social
PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Social historian interested in commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
@thomasgraves.bsky.social
Music researcher focussed on South Asia, musical emotion/affect, moral emotion, music & Islam. Open Research Library Assistant at LSE, part-time teacher at Durham University Music Department. AFHEA, he/him. PhD thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15586/
@stephenniem.bsky.social
Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
@domrossi.bsky.social
(she/her) dr in archaeology (cardiff uni) ⏩️ sasanian urban spaces and their evolution. passionate wanderer. heritage/archaeology consultant. love taking picture of my dog, siab. maps, books, and movies geek. annoyed by capital letters and capitalism
@verasimoneschulz.bsky.social
at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
@aysezarakol.bsky.social
IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
@psardor.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate @oeaw | Editor of JESHO and JCAH | Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/ Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
@umd-lsc.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary community advancing language science through research & training in science, education, tech, & health linktr.ee/umd_lsc
@mdliteracyequity.bsky.social
An interdisciplinary initiative advancing literacy + equity in MD 📚 📍University of Maryland + Morgan State University linktr.ee/mdliteracyequity
@homophonous.bsky.social
Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
@openiti.bsky.social
Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
@rankingpersia.bsky.social
A podcast rating and reviewing all the kings of Persia from Deioces to Yazdegerd III. Hosted by Umberto Molinatti and @sarielsnowings.bsky.social || OUT NOW!
@jaema.bsky.social
JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century. https://aema.org.au/journal/
@nima.bsky.social
Exploring the world through tech and stories, while diving into filmmaking and acting. Nima Media director Former host of Persian Click on BBC 📍 London, England https://x.com/nima https://nima.media https://imdb.me/nima.akbarpour Woman, Life, Freedom
@brianjulrich.bsky.social
Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
@lincolnmedieval.bsky.social
The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln.
@vhtroyansky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
@cmaislamic.bsky.social
Sharing public domain works from the Islamic Art department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@farridnejad.bsky.social
Professor of Iranian Studies، History, Languages & Cultures of the Near East, University of Hamburg، member of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC): Iranian Languages and Religions, Zoroastrianism, Judeo-Persian Literature
@arashzeini.com
Bahari Research Fellow @ AMES, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iranian Studies, history, philology, late antique Zoroastrianism; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. My views. https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
@historians.org
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. http://historians.org/join
@medievalists.bsky.social
Hello from Medievalists.net, where the Middle Ages begins - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
@umdbooklab.bsky.social
Founded in 2018, BookLab is the University of Maryland English Department’s letterpress workshop, book arts studio, and bibliographic makerspace; and the Plaintxt Press is our imprint. Come visit in Tawes Hall 3248. We make small language models.
@tobinjj.bsky.social
PhD candidate working on the medieval Balkans, Caucasus and Middle East at UMD. Gender & sexuality, literacy and statehood. They/them. Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or organization.
@caperry.bsky.social
Educator-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
@ngmcburney.bsky.social
Antiquarian bookseller with a focus on printed books and manuscripts from the Muslim world, defined as broadly and inclusively as possible. www.ngmcburney.com
@myhnn.bsky.social
New perspectives on the many ways in which the past shapes the present. Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly deliveries of our original writing about history: http://hnn.us/newsletter Powered by @bunkhistory.bsky.social at the University of Richmond.
@greeneland.bsky.social
Labor and migration historian @UMaryland. Pre-order Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal! https://tinyurl.com/Pre-Order-Box-25
@sims-mss.bsky.social
We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together. https://schoenberginstitute.org/
@laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
The official journal of @lawcha.bsky.social. Published by @dukepress.bsky.social To access all issues of LABOR visit https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor
@histphilosophy.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
@h-net-humanities.bsky.social
Humanities and Social Sciences Online · The scholar's source for job postings, book reviews, academic announcements, discussion, and resources H-Net Reviews: @hnetreviews.bsky.social H-Net Job Guide: @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social
@insidehighered.com
Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources. Visit insidehighered.com for more.
@mbaldwin.bsky.social
#histSTM studying scientific publishing, funding, and peer review. Associate prof @ UMD College Park. All opinions mine!
@caeliambulator.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at UMD working on Indian Ocean trade and the wider ancient world. More than occasionally talks about the doggo. https://history.umd.edu/directory/jeremy-simmons
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]