Roman history
People working on various aspects of Roman history (broadly defined)
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@andrewconnor.bsky.social
@annetteyreed.bsky.social
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
@peregrinekiwi.bsky.social
Game Designer. Classicist, (Ancient) Historian, Historical Games Studier. Pākehā. He/him/his. @TheSprawl_RPG, @ardensludere, @peregrinekiwi@dice.camp & Twitter.
@bethanyjoanna.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate (New Testament), Wheaton College | Dissertating on female patronage & benefaction in Greco-Roman world & Southern Levant | Epigraphy & Material Culture
@carlosedes.bsky.social
He/Him Phd Candidate Classics at University of Warwick Roman Identity Chancellor's International Scholarship Previously at @rhulclassics.bsky.social and @leidenhumanities.bsky.social
@selsvold.bsky.social
(Late) Roman archaeologist. Dabbling in archaeological theory, funerary culture and how we think about change in Late Antiquity. Postdoc @ Uni Oslo / Norwegian Institute in Rome
@mbinzurich.bsky.social
Historian of religion\s at UZH. linktr.ee/drMBrand PhD, first book: http://tinyurl.com/5n7kt5fs. Interested in Religion, History, Comparison, Theory - and sometimes in Manichaeans. #Schweiz
@malfy-c.bsky.social
Historian, papyrologist, Coptologist: forgery, authenticity, ethics, and provenance; scribal practice in Greek and Coptic papyri; Coptic monasticism & first millennium Egypt.
@kathryntempest.bsky.social
Classicist and Roman Historian at University of Leicester; mum to a toddler and two whippets.
@mgindele.bsky.social
Ancient historian. PhD student @unituebingen.bsky.social. Researching cityscapes and time perception in Rome 🏛 Bibliomaniac 📚 Passionate about classical music 🎶 Mother 💕
@writinghelena.bsky.social
Writing about imperial women to understand late antiquity: history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory
@hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social
👩🏻🏫 Senior Lecturer in Classics/AncHist & Egyptology, University of Liverpool 📚 PhD Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University 🏛️ Fellowships: Fulbright, FAvH, FRHistS, FHEA, HRF Rylands Library 📜🔍 Graeco-Roman Egypt, Papyrology, Ancient Science 💙 Books, Astrolabes
@drdragases.bsky.social
Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile.
@quatrus.bsky.social
anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr; website quatr.us. Now writing a feminist history of money
@caitmongrain.bsky.social
Classics PhD @Princeton, MA, BA @Texas Tech | Flavian cultural history, occasional baking, sundry animal rescue | she/her
@sdecasien.bsky.social
Nautical Archaeologist & Ancient Historian • Greek & Roman Maritime History & Archaeology • Naval Warfare, Warships, & Naval Rams • Postdoc Research Fellow at Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China • PhD from TAMU. http://stephendecasien.com
@lindsaypowell.bsky.social
Historian. News editor at Ancient History and Ancient Warfare magazines. Author of 14 books, including MARCUS AGRIPPA and GERMANICUS. Appeared on BFBS, History, HistoryHit and The History Network. 🇺🇸🏴 Website: https://lindsay-powell.com
@dianajspencer.bsky.social
Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
@metalclassicist.bsky.social
VAP in Classics at Grand Valley State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in Metal. he/him “Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth, and the Refounding of Rome” out September 26th with Oxford University Press. Curriculum vitae: tinyurl.com/SwistCV
@yagosparra.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Santiago de Compostela. PhD in Ancient Sciences. Epigraphy and Roman public buildings. Hispania + North Africa + Galliae.
@andrewkenrick.bsky.social
Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. Nothing if not varied.
@amheida-project.bsky.social
David M. Ratzan (ISAW/NYU), Director; Nicola Aravecchia (WUSTL), Archaeological Field Director. More information, reports, bibliography at https://isaw.nyu.edu/research/amheida. See also https://www.instagram.com/amheida.project/
@mnotarian.bsky.social
Roman archaeologist / classicist / Big Lebowski enthusiast @Hiramcollege. Co-director www.sentinumproject.org. #DigitalArchaeology. #3D Modeling. Roman urbanism. Numismatics. Suburbium. Epigraphy.
@jamescoverley.com
Roman historian, humorist, writer, He/Him. https://jamescoverley.substack.com https://jamescoverley.com/black-magic-baby
@periegetes.bsky.social
Senior researcher, Heidelberg Academy. Malalas, Sparta, Pausanias, historiography, narratology. Father, baker, painter, maker. 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇦🇹🇬🇷🇨🇭🏴☠️
@tonyk.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UT Austin. Specialist on the texts and material culture of ancient Jews and Christians, ancient imperialism and economics, and the modern politics of biblical interpretation.
@lawilkinson.bsky.social
Ancient historian working on non-elite political culture in the Roman Republic. Honorary Research Fellow @ University of Manchester. Enjoyer of hikes, good food and PC gaming. Views are my own.
@ltotelin.bsky.social
Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
@lewismarkwebb.bsky.social
Roman historian. Associate Professor in Ancient History at University of Gothenburg. He/him.
@cmart05.bsky.social
Cultural Historian of Leadership, Autocracy and Civil War in the Roman Empire; interested in all things about Caesar~ Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Uni of Edinburgh ~ she/her ~ all views my own
@sallymub.bsky.social
Mandaean/Iraqi Kiwi🇳🇿 Current PhD @ St Andrews. Ancient Historian studying the Roman Republic, war & trauma, & challenging colonial research frameworks 🏛🌿🍉
@senex64.bsky.social
NZer (Wgtn) at the University of Melbourne (tim.parkin@unimelb.edu.au). Roman historian. New to Bluesky since November '24. Views expressed are mine alone.
@chattyplatty.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology at RHUL. Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome: Power and Space in Roman Houses (Bloomsbury, 2019). Obsessed with all things Roman, oh and guinea pigs 🐹. 💙💛
@dcsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Whitman College | Writing on religion, disability, and social history in the Roman Empire
@drjeball.bsky.social
#Roman & conflict archaeologist; Freelance archaeological writer; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; Honorary Research Fellow & University Teacher at the University of Liverpool.
@idaostenberg.bsky.social
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. Eller som min son säger: "Mamma är bara professor i vissa saker." Posts in English and Swedish.
@paregorios.bsky.social
Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives in Pittsburgh. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org). Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
@henryhbclarke.bsky.social
Lecturer in Roman History & Culture, University of Leeds | Identity, culture and landscape in Ancient Iberia | Editor at Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal | Coach and cox at Leeds Rowing Club https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/665/dr-henry-clarke
@jenebbeler.bsky.social
Classics/Late Antiquity professor at UT Austin. Augustine/Cyprian/Ancient Letters/Imperial and Late Antique History. Disability advocate. Owned by cats. The Enemy.
@edwarddandrow.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Ancient History, Roman Near East, war and violence, cultural and ethnic identities, numismatics. Perennial traveler and writer, easily distracted by animals. Cat and bunny slave. Speak only for myself.
@frontiere-s.bsky.social
Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’art. Un espace de réflexion en Open Access sur les sociétés antiques et médiévales Journal of Archaeology, History & Art History. An Open Access space to reflect on ancient and medieval societies
@gaelleperrot.bsky.social
Dr. en histoire romaine Post-doctorante projet CRRITIC, CRHIA, Nantes Université ; ueterana-ATER ex @univ-amu.fr ; chercheuse associée HiSoMA Co-rédactrice en chef de la revue @frontiere-s.bsky.social
@jordgmitch.bsky.social
Ancient History • Faculty of Classics at the University of St. Thomas • Augustan Resonances in Post-Augustan Literature • Petronius • Gender Studies • Toxic Masculinity • Respue Quod Non Es
@vickyausten.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Gif Enthusiast. My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸 victoriaausten.com
@kyleghistory.bsky.social
History nerd. IC spare part. Currently researching escaping POWs and SOE in occupied Crete. And the Ancient and Medieval world. And historical food. And...
@rotiroti.bsky.social
Legal Scholar, Historian, Classicist – Legal Theory & History, Antiquity & Early Middle Ages, Classics, Early Christianity, Video Games – https://unicz.academia.edu/FrancescoRotiroti
@drchristinah.bsky.social
Roman historian working as a Program Manager. Gender, material culture, digital humanities, classical reception in metal music. I also make chain maille. Academic CV and links to my other pages: https://linktr.ee/infestissima
@egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social
PhD Egyptology @livuni | Classical Studies Teacher | Mummy Portraits, Hybridity & Identity in Graeco-Roman Egypt | Personal Account
@averilcam.bsky.social
Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Order my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall' here: http://rb.gy/y8eyyi
@dominicmachado.bsky.social
Ancient historian. Associate professor at the College of the Holy Cross. "Voluntas Militum" (Zaragoza, 2023). he/him
@ellithorpecj.bsky.social
•Ancient Historian and Roman Numismatist •Assistant Professor, University of Central Oklahoma •Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
@archaeadne.bsky.social
she/her PhD cand. @ UT Austin Classics. Roman archaeologist working on public architecture and politics, esp in Gaul, plus projects on osteology and reception. Malcontent and “feistful” sometimes. Opinions are mine alone.
@unsissel.bsky.social
Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools. https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
@ellakirsh.bsky.social
Stenography and social history in Late Antiquity. Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge.
@dominik-hagmann.bsky.social
PI 01 #project_iuenna https://iuenna.hypotheses.org #digitalarchaeology #Romanarchaeology he/him | #ARDIG https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dominik-Hagmann @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
@drjacklennon.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester. Research on Roman religion, magic, dirt/dirtiness, stigma, and marginalisation. Always happy to get involved with public-facing history projects and to talk about Roman dirt!
@vlcampbell.bsky.social
Ancient historian, archaeologist, writer, lecturer at The Open University. All things Pompeii, Rome, and epigraphy. https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/
@doccrom.bsky.social
Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
@nathanleach.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Religious Studies, Texas State University | writing on ancient Mediterranean religions, apocalypses, divination, and mysteries
@merleeisenberg.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University. PhD, Princeton University Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental Podcast: Infectious Historians @ infectioushistorians.com Also: Arsenal | Mets | Vikings | UConnWBB
@dcjanzen.bsky.social
I research Roman literature and history (solitude, Environmental Humanities, social epistemology) @ Texas Tech. Ancient Studies for all. he/him 🇨🇦
@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
@bigfridge224.bsky.social
Researching Roman magic and trying not to accidentally summon demons. Forever DM, Dad and Catholic.
@drnwillburger.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
@megannutzman.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at ODU; PhD in Classics from UChicago; MTS + ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; author of Contested Cures (Edinburgh University Press) bit.ly/3sMTELi
@kristadalton.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at Kenyon College. Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025). Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com.
@partialhistorians.bsky.social
After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️ 📘‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ is out now! https://linktr.ee/ThePartialHistorians
@jmharland.bsky.social
Late Roman & Medieval History & Archaeology @dependencybonn.de Exploring what happens when empires die. Book available at http://t.ly/LfaV http://jmharland.hcommons.org
@carrielarocco.bsky.social
Classicist / Early Medievalist at Oxford. Working on: female patronage in the late- and post-Roman west; late Roman + Visigothic Iberia. Sometimes I make Roman recipes ☺️ (she/her) #MosaicMonday ♾️
@emlynkd.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ics.bsky.social, Uni of London Former A/Director, British School at Rome Archaeologist 🏺 Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷 Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️ FSA FRHistS FHEA. 🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
@renskejanssen.bsky.social
Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics and Ancient History | Editor-in-chief of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | Leiden (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch and English
@debranousek.bsky.social
Beholden to my canine overlords. And otherwise a stationery nerd and Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, working on Caesar and Latin historiography. She/her 🏳️🌈
@chancebonar.bsky.social
Researching early Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, violence, and more Cat dad | 🏳️🌈 http://chancebonar.com Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
@amchristensen.bsky.social
Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
@josephinequinn.bsky.social
Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). I like cats.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Blogs at acoup.blog
@devoretext.bsky.social
Ancient Mediterranean historian, Cal Poly Pomona. History, the human past (those 2 aren't the same), politics, some baseball. Views here not of my institution.
@oslandd.bsky.social
Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).
@historiantillo.bsky.social
Academic worker and historian of late antiquity. Opinions my own, though they probably reflect the deep structures and contradictions of late capitalism.
@antiquethought.bsky.social
Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
@tiamopatata.bsky.social
assistant professor of classics | slavery and law | minor seneca obsession
@tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social
Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian Research Fellow, Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities victoria.leonard@coventry.ac.uk #FRHistS #WCCWiki More on me: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-leonard
@claudeeilers.bsky.social
McMaster Classics. Roman history, Greek epigraphy, card tricks, and show tunes
@drblankam.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow @viennacogscihub.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow @univie.ac.at Researching Roman religion through cognitive science of religion approaches. New book on Roman rituals from @cambridgeup.bsky.social - https://bit.ly/44orx2D
@christophersmith.bsky.social
University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation All views my own, but none of the poetry.
@isisnaucratis.bsky.social
History+ancient Lands+Beings; Prof. @UofT /@UTSC; 12th generation French settler; YQB born CAI love; I decipher power; EverydayOrientalism; past=now; مصر دائما 🐍; I also draw; #Landback
@nevillemorley.bsky.social
Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
@pjgoodman.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Roman history. Appreciator of the Gothic. Lib Dem. She / her.
@laurenginsberg.bsky.social
she/her | associate professor of classical studies: Roman literature, culture, theater, civil war, & all things Nero | pedagogy geek | passionate about equity in graduate education | lover of travel and food | never speak for my employer
@profyarrow.bsky.social
Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Chair of Classics, Brooklyn College. Typo-Queen. I treat this space like the office water cooler. Blogging at livyarrow.org
@janesancinito.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Ancient History at UMass Lowell. Research: Roman merchants, ancient numismatics, greed, stereotypes. Self: embroidery, tea, long walks, and ice hockey. Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
@hannahecornwell.bsky.social
Roman historian, sometime (historically) archaeologist, occasional seamstress & baker.
@carlosfnorena.bsky.social
Humanist | 🇪🇦 | Ancient Historian | 🎛 🎹🎚| He/Him https://history.berkeley.edu/carlos-f-norena
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pastsimperfect.substack.com