Public American Studiers, Part Deux
More folks putting in the work. 100 this time, so suggest more (including you), please!
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@americanstudier.bsky.social
@ldburnett.bsky.social
writer / historian / writing professor from California's Great Central Valley Baptist -> Episcopalian -> Episcopal church lady (this is a simplified timeline)
@alexjwhite.bsky.social
Freelance historian with a focus on African anti-colonialism and the global media. PhD from Cambridge, hot takes from the depths of a radio archive somewhere.
@gladysofmonmouth.bsky.social
👩🏻💻 chronically in the research phase 🎓 novice historian & political scientist 🪴 linktr.ee/gladsbh 📍 🇺🇸🇵🇭
@thesaramarcus.bsky.social
Professor of English, writing about US literature, sound, political disappointment. I also wrote a book about Riot Grrrl. http://saramarcus.com https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248656
@kirbyrachel.bsky.social
American Studies PhD and folklorist. Southerner in New England. I like people, places, and things. And cheese. Probably thinking about Mr. Peanut. www.rachelckirby.com
@michaelhattem.bsky.social
Historian, American Revolution and popular memory | Author of "The Memory of '76" (E209 .H38 2024) and “Past & Prologue” (E210 .H38 2020) | Music: National Steel | @Arsenal
@amandaallenphd.bsky.social
English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
@micahbateman.bsky.social
Asst Prof in LIS at UIowa. DH, CHI, libraries/archives, digital heritage, poetry. Finishing Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns. Opinions do not reflect UI. bit.ly/MicahBateman
@clairebnschtn.bsky.social
Postdoc at BU AMNESP. PhD from UNC. Former NYBG Fellow. Critical food studies, materiality, senses via vanilla. Midwest. Pronounced BUN-SKOH-ten. she/her
@lehelton.bsky.social
Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
@lwieck.bsky.social
Historian of 20th and 21st cities, US West, race and culture. Associate Professor and Director of Public History at St. Mary's Univ. Lover of books, coffee, and flowers.
@lizcovart.bsky.social
Historian | Researcher of Articles of Confederation | Creator of Ben Franklin’s World: An Award-Winning Podcast About Early American History | Celtics & Red Sox Fan https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
@jes-tea.bsky.social
Author of ‘Sound Recording Technology and American Literature’ (Cambridge UP) * American Book Award Winner * Jazz fan * Book nerd * English Prof in Las Vegas www.drjessicateague.com
@adamarenson.bsky.social
Writing and teaching history for a wider public. Black North American border-crossing after the Underground Railroad; Civil War and Reconstruction in the West; Mid-Century Modern art and architecture from Millard Sheets. Californian in NYC. adamarenson.com
@mjrp.bsky.social
a historian(ish) currently writing a book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC and another book about how we do history now. https://linktr.ee/comingtowashington
@melanienewport.bsky.social
US carceral and urban history, jail and policing. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account.
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
@pourfairelevide.bsky.social
phd candidate in american literature - editorial assistant - psychoanalysis understander - long suffering Mets fan - “talentless discourse guy” https://substack.com/@fivegoodhours
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
@mguariglia.bsky.social
Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Visiting Professor at Emory. Book on race and the origins of modern policing out now! MatthewGuariglia.com
@gerardomarti.bsky.social
William R Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Editor Soc of Rel Journal, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Rel & AAR Rel and Soc Sci Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D | Schuller Bio 2025📚
@lizsp.bsky.social
Historian, professor, friend of sweet pitbulls and cats. Wrote a book about the Rhinelander trial (1925) a while back for UNC Press. Recent work on Urban League and equality 1960s/early 70s. I sew, knit, and read historical mysteries.
@wihorne.bsky.social
Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. If I’m not here I’m on the WFMU comments board.
@sarahwagner13.bsky.social
transatlantic european | us politics & pop culture | deputy director + podcast 'Amerikas Verfassung' at @atlantakademie.bsky.social |
@davidsirakov.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, US politics nerd, polarization and populism, foreign policy and transatlantic relations. Director of @AtlantAkademie.bsky.social. Podcast „Amerikas Verfassung“, views my own.
@apocalypticdrift.bsky.social
Reluctant literary scholar with a focus on the end (of the world) American Studies at Universität Stuttgart (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@reedgochberg.bsky.social
Museum curator and cultural historian. Associate Curator and Director of Exhibitions, Concord Museum. Author, Useful Objects (OUP, 2021). All views my own. https://reedgochberg.com
@karolinakrasuska.bsky.social
Prof., University of Warsaw | transnational literature, gender/queer theory | “Soviet-Born: Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction” (Rutgers UP, 2024)| 🐈⬛owner | she/her
@sarageorgini.bsky.social
Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.
@theotherrbg.bsky.social
📖author, Dear Miss Perkins (Kensington, Jan. 2025) 🐻Brown postdoc🤎 ✍🏼writing a book on the American Revolution in popular culture, 1976-2026 www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
@kginlum.bsky.social
Professor of American Religion @Stanford. Author of Damned Nation (2014) and Heathen (2022). Director of @argcstanford.bsky.social. SFGiants fan.
@justingage.bsky.social
Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
@matloaf.bsky.social
History at Lenoir-Rhyne / FOT / Making the Foothills Happen™️ “I live in the past, jack / It ain’t even that different” - billy woods
@jessicawranosky.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of DH & History-Women, gender & sexuality hist &voting rights specialist. Auntie Maime, “Life is a banquet. Most poor suckers are starving to death.Live!Live!Live!” Posts are my own 1st Amendment. www.jessicabrannonwranosky.com
@bestonetx.bsky.social
Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews. Alte kaker in training. Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande (2024), https://tinyurl.com/273bscwn Corpus Christi, TX www.BryanEdwardStone.com
@profgidlow.bsky.social
Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
@chrismey2203.bsky.social
Univ. HH.Am.Studies.The long 19th c;author of “Producing Mass Entertainment:The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid” (OSUP 2019).Eisner Award nominee.President of ComFor e.V. Gardening.she/her https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/personen/meyer-christina.html
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Unwanted (@UNC_Press). Current President of @IEHS.
@einavrfox.bsky.social
Historian. Curator. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
@profdgd.bsky.social
Professor of English and Chair: posts are mine and mine alone. Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
@historygirl.bsky.social
Librarian, Archivist, Historian, Traveler, Embroiderer, History Geek, Genealogist.
@historycounts.bsky.social
Historian of all sorts of things in the US South, particularly the history of Jim Crow and Louisiana. Author/Editor. Night owl. Feral cat wrangler (TNR). Living in TX 20+ years. Native of MA.
@alixabeth.bsky.social
Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
@dwaldstreicher.bsky.social
Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
@lhistorienne.bsky.social
History PhD. Pirate expert. ☠🏴☠️⚓️ Author/Editor. Educator. Elder Millennial. Forever emo kid. ♉ Tattoo lover. AuDHD. LEGO enthusiast & vinyl hoarder. Self-proclaimed connoisseur of 📚🏝️🍸🍺🍷. As seen on TV (History Channel). 📺 📸: L_Historienne
@lmchervinsky.bsky.social
Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library @mount_vernon. 🖊️ MAKING THE PRESIDENCY & THE CABINET. 🐶 mom. Views my own.
@charlottesussman.bsky.social
Chair, Duke English. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Migration Studies, Blue Humanities. Author of PEOPLING THE WORLD: REPRESENTING HUMAN MOBILITY FROM MILTON TO MALTHUS. Remembering the Middle Passage Project. Knitting, running, hopeful cook.
@amyclukey.bsky.social
Academic and neo-Victorian convalescent I've been told that I'm a flower that grew out of a can of Budweiser
@alanyliu.bsky.social
I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
@jshelat1.bsky.social
PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about 9/11, the War on Terror, and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own. https://www.jayshelat.com
@stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social
prof at UNC ⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@juneinbrief.bsky.social
Working on an MA in International Security and International Law. Interested in studying propaganda, far right narratives, civil conflict, and memes. Antifash. 🏳️⚧️
@joshuamzeitz.bsky.social
Historian. Politico Magazine contributing writer. NYT best-selling author, including Building the Great Society and Lincoln’s Boys. Twitter refugee. This place is nicer, but I still block antisemites.
@hidehirota.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law and development, US migration(s) and citizenship law and policy history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie.
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@danielcavicchi.bsky.social
Professor, Rhode Island School of Design. Fan studies, popular music studies, sound studies, American studies. Views are my own. https://www.risd.edu/academics/history-philosophy-and-social-sciences/faculty/daniel-cavicchi
@hellosmoto.bsky.social
Law prof and director of the Getches-Green Environmental Law Clinic at Colorado Law; talk to me about climate, food policy, water quality, track and field, WNBA/NBA, and anything Pacific Northwest, including the imminent return of the Sonics 🤞🏽WA/OR/CO
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Senior politics writer at Salon.com. Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
@tuckerdrake.bsky.social
I'm yet another annoying podcaster, and I just happen to live in a beer can. tparkpodcast.com is the home of the show and you can support it on https://www.patreon.com/tntucker if you choose.
@mfreeman.bsky.social
Rhode Island. Author of Neither Mountain Nor River (Riddle Brook) and Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
@agtheodoridis.bsky.social
Political Junkie/Scientist; Associate Professor at UMass Amherst; Co-Director of the UMassPoll; Opinion, Elections, Polarization, Causal Inference; UVA, Harvard Kennedy School, and UC Berkeley alum.
@jeanettepatrick.bsky.social
Podcaster | Public Historian | Museum Specialist | she/her Check out our history podcasts at www.R2Studios.org Head of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
@amandaannklein.bsky.social
media studies professor writing historical fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E! Views expressed are my own Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
@biblioracle.bsky.social
Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. Www.whytheycantwrite.com
@reevesjw.bsky.social
Author of "Soldier of Destiny.” Currently working on a book about the Black Hills. https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Destiny-Slavery-Secession-Redemption/dp/1639365273/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2RL1TV1WBHXOF&keywords=ulysses+s+grant&qid=1707938501&sprefix=%2Ca
@mrshistorylee.bsky.social
World History teacher, lifelong learner, global traveler, dog mom, #historyfoodies #EduSky 🍎 #iteachsocialstudies 🗺️ #sschat - I follow teachers and historians! Working to save the 🌏
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
Author+Historian 🧪🗃️, Mystery Novelist, Host of Peculiar Book Club, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE. Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES #trans rights history. Latest mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. @SciAm @WSJ @wired #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her
@geohumanist.bsky.social
Place-based historian based in Philadelphia; professor at Penn; author of “Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees”
@kateclancy.bsky.social
Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Obsessed with the uterus, even when it's being shitty. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation, now out on paperback. Up next: PREGNANCY, INTERRUPTED. White, settler, queer. 🍉
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs. Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
@adrastosno.bsky.social
New Orleanian. Lapsed lawyer, writer, cat guy, film buff, music geek, amateur historian, and publisher https://first-draft.com/
@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
@danhf.bsky.social
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
@hngreen.bsky.social
Scholar, Educator. Author of Educational Reconstruction (Fordham UP, 2016) and Unforgettable Sacrifice (forthcoming Fordham UP, 2025) and other works.
@kidadaewilliams.com
I read, tell stories, mind my business, and write. BEBO (Block early, Block often) fan. I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback.
@mrjordanhirsch.bsky.social
Freelance writer: https://www.jordan-hirsch.com/ Editor of the interactive map of New Orleans music history at ACloserWalkNola.com
@robertmannbooks.com
Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." https://robertmann.substack.co
@jamieljones.bsky.social
Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsolete
@ethicselizabeth.bsky.social
Philosopher & Clinical Ethicist | she/her | peds ethics, repro ethics, TIC, narrative med, feminist philosophy | Cincinnati (it’s cool despite Ohio) | Thoughts my own unless I am re-posting yours | https://sites.google.com/view/elizabethlanphier
@laurenfturek.bsky.social
Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan.
@amandajsummers.bsky.social
Not aspiring to be humble. PhD @TempleUHistory - LatAm/Caribbean, Iberian Empires, Inquisition, Incarceration, Body, Gender, Sex, Death.
@jasonhiggins.bsky.social
Digital Scholarship Coordinator/Assistant Prof at Virginia Tech. Author of Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press). Editor. Oral historian. I teach the Vietnam War and African American history. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
@thedevilhistory.bsky.social
Writer. Researcher. Historian. Lapsed Academic. Poster child for the Cancerian moon. Midnight Fairy King. FDR Liberal. Church of Pearl Jam. Dual Canadian & American.
@jasonheppler.org
Historian of the #AmWest, #aghist, #envhist, capitalism, & politics | Senior Developer-Scholar @ rrchnm.org | Adj. Prof. @ GMU | Books and more: jasonheppler.org | Farmsteading in Nebraska | Views own | ⚓
@drgenacarpio.bsky.social
Professor, Writer, Learner | Race, History, California Author Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place & Mobility Make Race, http://bit.ly/collisionsbook
@tracibrynne.bsky.social
Environmental history, history of reproduction, EJ+RJ. Author of The Settler Sea (2021) & Wastelanding (2015). Currently writing Natural Childbirth: An Environmental History.
@larrycebula.bsky.social
"The Lightning Rod of Weirdness." Public historian, bicyclist, noted bon vivant. Taking a break from politics so if I unfollow you that's why.
@briandelay.bsky.social
Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
@elsadevienne.bsky.social
Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
@legg.bsky.social
Scholar of Indigenous & Public History 📖 PhD, George Mason. Researching Eastern Dakota mobility, diplomacy, and resistance in the Civil War era. Book Review Editor H-CivWar. Engaged in #DigitalPublicHistory. https://www.johnlegg.org
@adamsowards.net
Writer & historian. Words all over. Usually about "the environment." Rooted in the Pacific Northwest. https://www.adamsowards.net/