US and Global Immigration Historians
Immigration historians focused on migration to the United States, but also historians of global migration. Building this list, so please send me your name if you are on Bsky and are an immigration historian.
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@elliottyoung.bsky.social
@nsharma101.bsky.social
There (really) is no place like home. Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press) Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press) Professor, Sociology, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa #NoBorders nanditasharma.net
@beismo.bsky.social
Public and digital historian. PhD candidate at NYU. Writing about Lithuanian Jews and their transnational family relationships, 1899-1949. Very amateur genealogist.
@lukeglanville.bsky.social
Prof of IR at ANU | International ethics & history of international thought | refugees, borders, colonialism, slavery, atrocities, war | https://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/persons/luke-glanville
@vgonzalezmaltes.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History - 20th c US immigration and refugee history @ehess, living in Philadelphia
@latinohistory.bsky.social
Professor of Latinx history @ Yale. Center director (RITM). Ezra Stiles. Dogs.
@ljbriggs.bsky.social
Queer feminist historian of reproductive politics. Author of Taking Children. (they/them).
@ericschlereth.bsky.social
Historian of North America and the early United States. Author of a couple books, Quitting the Nation (https://bit.ly/3HS2Z8W) and An Age of Infidels (https://bit.ly/4br3EvT). Jacques Pépin super fan.
@quraishiphd.bsky.social
Historian of Asian immigration, transnational US, & Cold War (uquraishi.com). New project: US propaganda in Pk. Living near the Gulf of Mexico. Is this the new void into which I 😱?
@mjelmore.bsky.social
Historian of migration, borders, and immigration policy. Also religion. Food person. Cat person. Special needs advocate.
@iehs.bsky.social
Founded in 1965, the IEHS promotes the study of immigration history through the Journal of American Ethnic History and professional/educational outreach. https://iehs.org/
@naomipaik.bsky.social
Author - *Bans, Walls, Raids, #Sanctuary* on #abolition and #migrant justice. *Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in US Prison Camps Since WWII* on #imprisonment regimes under US #empire. #freepalestine #borderabolition www.naomipaik.com
@iandelahanty.bsky.social
>Civil War Era and Immigration in 19th c. America. >Author of Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865 (2024) >Assoc. Prof. of History at Springfield College
@profmkbyrnes.bsky.social
Historian @SouthwesternU. France, empire, migration, race, rights, activism. Author of Making Space (UNP). Mama. She/her.
@benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social
Historian, transplanted Texan living in Chicago. I write and teach history in order to understand and help others understand the crazy world in which we live. Environment, climate, borders, violence and memory are key. Also @refusing2forget.bsky.social
@migrationcollab.bsky.social
MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History https://sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc
@reecejones.bsky.social
Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected
@mllambrinou.bsky.social
I write on immigration & education, Latinas in STEM. MD Community Schools enthusiast. History buff. Fight fascism. Opinions only my own & do not reflect any institution or agency I may be associated with.
@eladiobobadilla.com
Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, radicalism and extremism, the working class, and immigration and ethnicity. Father. Autism advocate. Duke, Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Riverhounds, RSL, USM&WNT, Liverpool, St. Pauli.
@brendenwrensink.bsky.social
-Historian, American West, Borderlands, Environment, Indigenous Peoples -Professor @ BYU & Assoc. Director @byureddcenter.bsky.social -Podcast Host/Producer @WritingWestward.bsky.social -Editor IntermountainHistories.org -Books/Projects linktr.ee/BWRensink
@r-ida.bsky.social
i write fiction and history and other things too, lots about migrant justice. history prof; happy in the classroom. some kinda commie jew, 🐈 lover, mom to two amazing grown women, i ❤️ joe.
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.
@karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
@akgood.bsky.social
👨💻🚴🚆☕🌮🏳️🌈 Lifelong Michigander ✋. He/Him. Previously, co-founder + lead architect at https://duo.com/. Opinions are my own.
@tinashull.bsky.social
Associate Professor and public historian at UNC Charotte | Author of DETENTION EMPIRE | Carceral Studies, Climate Migration, Abolition | Creator, Climate Refugee Stories digital history project
@carlygoodman.bsky.social
Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
@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.
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Unwanted (@UNC_Press). Current President of @IEHS.
@elliottyoung.bsky.social
Borderlands and Transnational Migration historian at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Expert witness for asylum. Tepoztlán Institute. Migration Scholar Collaborative. Stanford Migration & Asylum Lab. Author of Forever Prisoners, and Alien Nation.