Contemporary European Historians
A starter pack for academics, journals, etc working on, and/or posting about, the history of contemporary Europe and its overseas empires (c. 1914 - present)
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@conteurohistory.bsky.social
@marcboc83.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Germany & Europe | King's College, University of Cambridge | #postsocialism #security #organization | 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇭🇰
@tessmegginson.bsky.social
PhD Candidate studying maps in 20th C central and eastern Europe | Sometimes I do Eurovision commentary
@conorbrockbank.bsky.social
PhD History student @QUB. Research incl. the Irish Diaspora in Wales, England and Zimbabwe, transnational networks within the Irish Carmelites + female Catholic religious institutions. Previously at Aberystwyth University
@beccordony.bsky.social
Phd & Casual Academic @ UNSW | Female Perpetrators | Holocaust | Nazi Germany | Representation | Gender and Atrocity
@constancebantman.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK. History of anarchism & print culture (1870-1930s); Anglo-French exile & migration; transnational radicalism; women & feminism. Views own. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧. Forthcoming book “Femmes de révolution” (Le Seuil, 2025)
@juliedeschepper.bsky.social
Cultural & art historian of (Post-)Soviet Russia Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies - Utrecht University (Post-)Socialist Heritage I Socialist Material Culture I Global Iconoclasm I Weaponization of Heritage in Ukraine
@stefanie-eisenhuth.bsky.social
Historian (ZZF Potsdam, Greifswald University)📍Berlin | interested in the History of Communism, the Cold War, all things GDR and Ukraine. Standing with 🇺🇦
@henryjmiller.bsky.social
Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
@cedcotter.bsky.social
Researcher @ICRC Archives & Library, PhD, History of ICRC, First World War, Humanitarianism. Personal opinions.
@pavoljakubec.bsky.social
Historian of International Relations & Diplomacy. Scandinavia, Central Europe, Middle East, 20th Century PhD University of Gothenburg
@jchaeberlen.bsky.social
Historian of beautiful actions. PhD from UChicago. Past at U Warwick, future teacher (Hist&Eng) in Berlin. Personal Homepage: https://joachimhaeberlen.com/ My book on Protesting in Post-War Europe: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011/beauty-is-in-the-
@krekberg.bsky.social
Researcher and teacher at Lund University, history of climate obstruction, anti-environmentalism, climate politics, utopia and cornucupianism. Relapsed skateboarder. Book: "Climate obstruction" https://t.ly/DS_Ja
@daphnebdz.bsky.social
Feminist, antiracist, antifascista, unapologetic. Phding in history of #colonialism #gender #race #sexuality #BrisithEastAfrica Also working on #BlackEurope #colonialmemory #racism #decoloniality/decolonisation Side project https://postcolonialitaly.com
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
Fellow @ Nuffield College, Oxford Martin School & Faculty of History, Oxford | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
@christosfotoglidis.bsky.social
PhD student| Modern European History| Ohio State University| Authoritarian regimes and dictatorships, nationalism, violence, institutions, social movements and youth, everyday life, transnational history, Greece, the Balkans and the Mediterranean region.
@giannisilei.bsky.social
Full Professor of Contemporary History @ University of Siena. Social History, Sport, Music, Books, Movies, Comics, not necessarily in this order.
@paulvt.bsky.social
Historicus | Leiden University | History of disability, human rights, global health, welfare, religion
@galeguismo.bsky.social
BA in History and MA in Late Modern History (both at USC). Member of JEF Galicia. Researching Conservative Regionalism in Galicia from the 70's to the present.
@kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
@historyofcommunism.bsky.social
History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism.
@historianmkalb.bsky.social
Historian, writing about intersections of colonial, environmental, and African history; author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (2022, open access); worried about our planet; www.martinkalb.com
@phvandam.bsky.social
Professor of Dutch History, University of Amsterdam | Co-founder of SEVEN | Research Group Environment & Society
@willgray.bsky.social
Professor of history at Purdue: 20th-Century international history & the global economy. Author of TRADING POWER and GERMANY'S COLD WAR. Current book project follows German economic engagement in Brazil.
@karolinarogalska.bsky.social
Anthropologist, ghost-hunter 👻, PI of the ERC StG SectralRecycling, based in Warsaw 🇵🇱, most of the time wandering through Pomerania
@avielroshwald.bsky.social
History Professor. Comparative study of nationalism. Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023) https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
@adamblackler.bsky.social
Historian of Germany, particularly of colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad. https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereiche/global_history/People/Visiting-Scholars/Adam-Blackler/index.html
@benvanzee.bsky.social
Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
@valisandulescu.bsky.social
Historian; Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest. PhD in History @CEU Budapest. 🎓 History & historiography of fascism and antisemitism/history of the Jewish community in Romania. 🗃 https://unibuc.academia.edu/ValentinSandulescu
@buleriasfan.bsky.social
Professor of History (mostly Spain). Coeditor Journal of Women’s History. Author of Flamenco Nation. Lover of food, hater of fascism.
@tomjunes.bsky.social
Historian, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Based in Poland and Bulgaria, my work focuses on Central and Eastern European politics and history. https://politic.edu.pl/faculty/tom-junes-ph-d/
@micdido.bsky.social
Contemporary History - Università di Roma Tre. I write about Internationalism, Social Democracy, (Euro)Communism, Cold War, European integration, Postwar Italy.
@johannawolf.bsky.social
historian in labour history, transnational and global history, @mpilhlt
@robertbentley.bsky.social
German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation living in Berlin and researching punks and right-wing extremism | Host: Archiv der Jugendkulturen
@schuneke.bsky.social
Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈
@drewflanaganphd.bsky.social
Historian of the Franco-German borderlands, military occupations, and European unity. Governing Council of Western Society for French History (2024-26), Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
@tijssikma.bsky.social
Political Historian | PhD Radboud University: history of the Dutch public debate surrounding digitalisation | Researcher Rathenau Institute (parliamentary technology assessment institute): project about Planetary Health | Computational methods in history
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
@kim-todzi.de
Historian interested in Colonialism, Postcolonial Memory, Economic History and Global Pharma. https://www.kim-todzi.de/
@vincentlagendijk.bsky.social
researcher Rathenau Institute, asst prof in history UM: dam(n) historian working on Europe, IOs, infrastructures, electricity, STS, radioactive waste, coffee geek
@historikarin.bsky.social
European political history @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social | everything between law, politics & history: NL constitution, EU law, interwar international law, etc | NL/EN
@manumourlon.bsky.social
Economic, financial and business history, sociology of elites, digital methods | Professor of History of European Cooperation and Integration at the EUI | Non Resident Fellow, Bruegel | www.e-mourlon-druol.com
@farboel.bsky.social
Historian interested in contemporary history, especially passionate about the Cold War, bunkers and ruins. Getting into Digital Humanities. Aarhus Uni & Uni of Oslo. Posts in Danish and English.
@dvarelafdez.bsky.social
Docteur en Histoire | ATER en Langue et Civilisation de l'Espagne contemporaine (@sorbonne-universite.fr) Histoire de l'hispanisme et circulation des idées réactionnaires (Espagne-France-Amériques)
@richmondbridge.bsky.social
Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
@lgmsam.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in History, UoN, UK | Anglo-German-Polish relations | displaced persons | post-war history | UNRRA | Queer Displacement | Hidden Histories. Dogs, cats, coffee, and bad puns welcome. She/Her
@neja-bh.bsky.social
Historian, Phd student (Uni Ljubljana), research assistant (INZ) SE Europe (esp. YU), migrations, censuses, ideologies, digital humanities, late 19. and 20. century Also: dogs, music, literature She/her Views my own
@obyrska.bsky.social
PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching Fellow in history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
@majben.bsky.social
Historian at C2DH (University of Luxembourg) Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and the history of the financial place in Luxembourg
@karstenuhl.bsky.social
Historian. Head of archives and research @neuengamme-mem.bsky.social. Privatdozent at University of Göttingen. Author of: Technology in Modern German History: 1800 to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://uni-goettingen.academia.edu/KarstenUhl
@francescocassata.bsky.social
Historian of European science policies, #fascism, #eugenics, #racism, Cold War science, #PrimoLevi. Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genova. Director of CENTRA (www.centrastudies.org) Born at 331 ppm
@leenalindell.bsky.social
AHRC CDP PhD at the Uni of York & NRM/ Science Museum Group - Transnational networks, SNA, colonialism, railways & 1930s China. Visiting researcher at Uni of Helsinki - Nordic colonialism, Petsamo, tourism & photography. Archivist. 🇫🇮🇬🇧🚂
@rosefacchini.bsky.social
Lecturer in Italian | Editor of International Poetry Review | Translator IT>EN. https://linktr.ee/rose_facchini
@chriskempshall.bsky.social
President @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Public Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. He/him https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
@jameslesueur.bsky.social
🎥Historian, Filmmaker, and Passionate Amateur Gardener @ https://www.foxhollowfilms.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10234302 Award-winning “The Art of Dissent” Streaming Everywhere. https://www.theartofdissentfilm.com
@coldwarpod.bsky.social
Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/ Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
@stefanzeppenfeld.bsky.social
Historiker an der Ruhr-Uni Bochum | Forscht zu Freizeit, privatem Sammeln und Flohmärkten im 20. Jh. | Zeitgeschichte, Migrationsgeschichte und Public History
@priskakomaromi.bsky.social
On parental leave. Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
@sjvigneault.bsky.social
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950) Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH) https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
@ljhilton2.bsky.social
Historian. Professor. Sox Fan. Writing about the culture of rumors in postwar Germany & statelessness after the Second World War. I speak for myself.
@cernach.bsky.social
MCF sourd à Paris 8, histoire des sourds et du noétomalalien; petit scenariste d’une BD, aime la Sci-Fi/fantazy (essaie d’en écrire) regarde les etoiles, http://noetomalalie.hypotheses.org
@alexclifford.bsky.social
Research & write on 30s Britain, Spain, Germany. Britain's Iron Chancellor out now! Author of Hindenburg, Ludendorff & Hitler, Fighting for Spain & The People's Army and of the introduction to new release Britain's Iron Chancellor
@pierresalmon.bsky.social
MCF en histoire contemporaine (ENS-PSL - IHMC) Guerre d'Espagne (1936-1939), trafic d'armes, histoire transnationale Compte personnel
@alisoncarrol.bsky.social
Historian at Brunel Uni of London working on borders in modern Europe. Author of The Return of Alsace. Current project: the idea of the Channel tunnel.
@mtthboisdron.bsky.social
🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
@parriblue.bsky.social
Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on water & growth in the Po Valley (Italy). All things #rivers #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
@davidspreen.com
Historian of modern Germany, interested in histories of the Left, Cold War, decolonization and social theory. He/him.
@p-steege.bsky.social
Everyday Life History. Berlin. Violence. Soccer. Not necessarily in that order.
@samkra.bsky.social
St Andrews History PhD. Researches #Baltic #CEE ethnopolitics. Views my own. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
@chrislashhist.bsky.social
Historian of Poland and CEE in the world based in Warsaw, Poland. Might be the odd political skeet here and there. Private views
@vandawilcox.bsky.social
professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
@peripheralhist.bsky.social
Peripheral Histories? is a collaborative digital history project focused on peoples and regions of Eastern Europe and Eurasia that have been perceived as geographically, politically, or culturally “peripheral" https://www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/
@beatricescutaru.bsky.social
Historian - migration - childhood - social history - eastern Europe
@elizabethward.bsky.social
Film historian in German cinema. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig researching German cultural diplomacy at film festivals during the Cold War. Lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina. www.elizabeth-ward.com
@drgoeschel.bsky.social
I am a historian of modern Europe, especially of Germany and Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Professor of Modern European History at the University of Manchester. https://christiangoeschel.substack.com/?utm_campaign=email-home&r=59pcdi
@andreaperez.bsky.social
🎓 PhD Philosophy (UB) 💼 Lecturer of Visual Communication at EINA University (UAB) and of History of contemporary culture (UOC) 📖 «Dos mujeres con gato: Escritos sobre las artes de Hannah Höch y Lu Märten
@shiftingsovs.bsky.social
This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
@mxtiessen.bsky.social
historian of ideas, thought and knowledge/ research strategist/ educated at the universities of Cologne and Cambridge/ mum 🕊🕊🕊
@sarahpanzer.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History. Missouri State University. Global fascism (esp. Germany and Japan). Beagle enthusiast. She/her. Views are my own.
@manwithoutatan.bsky.social
historian | pet shop boys fanatic | australian in germany | very bisexual | constantly podcasting | "oh, dr. bodie!" per jordan gray | they/them | latest book: “the pet shop boys and the political”
@ankahajkova.bsky.social
Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Author of The Last Ghetto
@pauldavidflood.bsky.social
Musicology PhD Candidate @ Eastman/UofR. Thinking about pop music, geopolitics, and migration in contemporary Europe. Writing a dissertation on #Eurovision. 🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
@aschacht.bsky.social
Historian (East Central Europe, International History of Science & Medicine) at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. PhD from @dshcs.bsky.social and @recetvienna.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at, Managing Editor with @administory.bsky.social
@martinasalvante.bsky.social
Historian of modern Italy and Europe, with research interests in fascism, gender, masculinity, and disability.
@lukasschemper.bsky.social
History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | research associate for ERC project "Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800" @zfl-berlin.bsky.social
@andyjc17.bsky.social
Historian of the Holocaust, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Father and Husband. Coffee. Books. Golden retrievers.
@pwhitewood.bsky.social
Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
@dmk1793.bsky.social
Historian, think tank researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
@bariscaylimessina.com
Assoc Professor / Editor-in-Chief, International Social Science Journal (Wiley)/Editor of Temple Studies in Criminalization, History & Society Book Series (Temple Univ Press) A gay man 🏳️🌈 Trans ally www.bariscaylimessina.com #Sociology #History #Criminology
@duhaut.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton. Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
@heissenstat.bsky.social
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University. Non-resident scholar, SUITS MENA History and Politics Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy. Also block folks who tell me my border collie is akshually a kelpie
@hdichter.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management 📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
@benjamincarterhett.bsky.social
Inked-stained wretch. Historian. If you voted for Trump please think about your life choices. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Слава Україні
@johannamellis.bsky.social
Ex-D1 swimmer, historian. @endofsportpod.bsky.social. Writing on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her. Anti-DeSantis. IG jojomellis for outfits
@arvandmirsafian.bsky.social
Economic historian at @camhistory.bsky.social. Doing research on historical political economy
@ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social
Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad