sara simon
phd student in us history • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
@katemasur.bsky.social
Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com.
@johnmkinder.bsky.social
Historian of #war, #disabilty, #veterans, #zoos. OKSTATE U. Writing book on murder in #WWII MS. Profile: https://tinyurl.com/23xfwzmh. World War Zoos: Humans & Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age https://tinyurl.com/4anuu4cp
@rebwright.bsky.social
Energy historian based at Northumbria University, working on histories of heat and fuel poverty in 20th Century Britain. PI of the Wellcome CDA "Carbon Bodies". My book, "Moral Energy in America" (JHUP) is out in the Spring. https://shorturl.at/9tFaV
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social
Associate Prof, IU Media School. Hist of tech, interfaces, wearables, media tech and everyday life. Books: Power Button (MIT) bit.ly/2xMlmsr and License to Spill (MIT, out now!) https://shorturl.at/Yl1DP
@parhee.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois. Historian of the built and natural environment and ideas around them. I wrote a book about modern environmentalism and its discontents: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo246539639.html
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, currently employed at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), forever immigration explainer. Committed to the bit. Signal: daralind.18
@anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Law professor and historical political scientist 📍Atlanta, Georgia Author of Rot and Revival: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper Carolina Tar Heel & Georgia Bulldog Studying constitutional law and American Political Development
@gbrockell.bsky.social
I write about history. Former staff writer at WaPo now enjoying having opinions in public. Former flight attendant. She/her. https://hardghistory.ghost.io/
@angierasmussen.bsky.social
Virologist. PI at VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language. Opinions my own.
@antheabutler.bsky.social
Professor, Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller.
@devoncantwell.bsky.social
Research Assistant/Incoming Postdoc @ University of Copenhagen. PhD candidate @uOttawa. Global city climate gov, #FirstGen, she/her, Fulbright 🇻🇳 Alum. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Co-EIC of Potentia
@chicollections.bsky.social
A consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
@bethanyberger.bsky.social
Law Prof writing & teaching about Property, American Indian Law & Legal History at Iowa Law
@benchansfield.bsky.social
preorder BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19) asst prof of history at temple // they/them https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
@joelanderson.bsky.social
aka Joel from Mo City | Senior staff writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box podcast | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988.
@ansleyerickson.bsky.social
US cities & schools, historically. Russell Sage Visiting Scholar this year. Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem. Thoughts here represent me, not my employer. www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11 nyccivilrightshistory.org
@evanbernick.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). “Mildly Sephirothic at worst.” He/him.
@bolman.bsky.social
Historian of science, IAS Lab Dog comes out in 2025: www.labdogbook.com/ brad.bolman.com
@knguyen.bsky.social
features editor at the verge. author of ‘new waves’ and ‘mỹ documents’ https://mydocuments.cargo.site/
@maramills.bsky.social
prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing disability studies / disability arts banner: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730402 avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches
@sunhahong.bsky.social
Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
@makenakelly.bsky.social
reporter @ WIRED covering the politics and power influencing the internet DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32 FAQ, Instagram, TikTok, & everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@daniellaurison.bsky.social
Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation. DanielLaurison.com = me WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
@abenanav.bsky.social
Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso, currently: fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
@oah.org
World's largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of US history.
@heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Law professor (emeritus), philosopher, progressive. Committed to rule of law and pluralistic democracy. Interests include art, books, history, science […] [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@sorourke25.bsky.social
Art Historian 'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780-1820' (Chicago 2025) 'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge 2021) extraction and its visual cultures, dog videos, unions, knowledge systems, 19th-century literature
@hagleycenter.bsky.social
Center for advanced studies in the history of business, technology, and society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Grants and Fellowships. Public programs. Scholarly community. Tune in to the Hagley History Hangout podcast!
@wearehighered.bsky.social
We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, the Middle East. Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
@christinevendel.bsky.social
Director of Investigations and Breaking News at PennLive/The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. Former KC Star reporter who's learning tennis and how to not take in more cats. (I have 7, plus 2 dogs.)
@ericblanc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof Rutgers Labor Studies; author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/ Red State Revolt, laborpolitics.substack.com; EWOC, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, 🌹
@maggieblackhawk.bsky.social
Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
@skantrow.bsky.social
Historian: Citizens of a Stolen Land; More Than Freedom; Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Midlife dog convert. Inyalowda.
@tannerallread.bsky.social
Milanovich Fellow, UCLA Law | Ph.D. Candidate in History, Stanford | J.D., Stanford Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
@michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social
Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia. MichaelLeroyOberg.com
@hollyguise.bsky.social
Iñupiaq Alaska Native historian in ABQ. Tries to write. Oral historian- check out ww2alaska.com. Author of: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752525/alaska-native-resilience/ ask your library to order a copy!
@bmcgx.bsky.social
writer, curator, early Americanist. history PhD candidate writing a diss about labor, material culture, & social reform. stupid and unserious opinions my own
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
@mercurywitch.bsky.social
VAP in Classical Studies at Wesleyan. PhD on witches/space in Ancient Rome. Weird comp lit. She/her have written here: https://mercurywitch.wordpress.com/
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
@annawilde.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Birmingham (UK) researching death positivity - https://deathpositiveresearch.com Works at Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social. Loves dachshunds, fibre arts, cake, poetry, books and lives in the country.
@arielron.bsky.social
ag, energy, econ & political history @ SMU // director Clements Center for Southwest Studies // web: arielron.net // book: Grassroots Leviathan (Johns Hopkins UP 2020) http://bit.ly/2CjHK1G // review: http://bit.ly/3xiKlja
@bylaurenfitz.bsky.social
Reporter! Still watchdogging for the Chicago Sun-Times. Happy grower of: some food, bee buffets, #TheHeir. Same @bylaurenfitz over on Instagram, too. Read my work: https://chicago.suntimes.com/authors/lauren-fitzpatrick Haters will be blocked.
@aadeleon.bsky.social
writer and history prof | studying filipino migration, imperial economy, and nation-states | author of "barangay" (2021) and "bundok" (2023) | next 📖: "balikbayan" (2026) https://linktr.ee/aadeleon
@law6pubhist.bsky.social
Public Historian | planner of Teen Museum program, interpretative guide, enjoyer of X-Men and Bob Burgers | Very interested in museum labor and public history advocacy | Alum of UMBC & UNCG | We protect each other