Scholars of migration & refugee history
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@fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social
@theodorad.bsky.social
Historian & professor @Ohio State. Books on Eastern Europe & the Balkans: nationalism, migration, borderlands, Cold War culture. Current work on post-1918 divided families & displaced children. 2025 ACLS Fellow.
@shakspier.bsky.social
She/Her/Hers. Ph.D., Cultural Historian. Genocide and Holocaust Studies scholar. 📍Mexico City 🇲🇽
@juliocapojr.bsky.social
Queer/Latinx/race/migration history prof at FIU. Also public history & humanities. Wrote #WelcomeToFairyland. Curated #QueerMiami, #Zorita & other exhibitions. An editor of Made By History section in TIME. Opinions my own. He/él.
@dbattisti.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska - Omaha. Author, Whom We Shall Welcome. Co-editor, Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States. Views are my own.
@shoc-vub.bsky.social
Social History of Capitalism Research group @VUB Brussels https://shoc.research.vub.be/
@tklindner.bsky.social
Historian & Postdoc | Latin America & Europe | Migration & Sport | Uni Rostock | Book "A City Against Empire", http://bit.ly/3Kq2fKv
@kgberg.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. NLA University College, Norway. Palestine, UNRWA, refugee camps, Jerusalem, international aid. Latest books: Palestina. Fakta på bakken (Palestine. Facts on the ground) and Continental Encampment w. Are Knudsen (Berghahn)
@pantersarah.bsky.social
Research Associate @IEG_Mainz. Jewish History; Transatlantic Migration/Mobility,19th c. Current Project: Transatlantic Families: The Lives of German Revolutionary Emigres, 1848/49-1914
@easteuromutt.bsky.social
Professional Genealogist. Backyard gardener. Swimmer. Advocating for access to 20thC Immigration records at RecordsNotRevenue.com and occasionally blogging at EasternEuropeanMutt.com. most importantly: https://fundnara.com/
@alecadell.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history @ the ANU
@vcharnysh.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Book: “Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe.” I write and teach about the historical political economy of migration, conflict, and state building. http://charnysh.net/
@blenormand.bsky.social
Historian of Yugoslavia in global context. Urban Planning, migration, maritime transportation. Believer in speaking out for/amplifying the silenced. she/her.
@JochenLingelba1.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy
Historian of human mobility in East Africa, East-Central Europe and elsewhere // author of On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial […] [bridged from https://h-net.social/@JochenLingelba1 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@sarahmknoll.bsky.social
Historian - Refugee Studies | Cold War | History of Austria | International organizations https://linktr.ee/SarahMKnoll
@carolinemezger.bsky.social
Historian at Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) Munich | Group Leader of INFOCOM Project | Teaches at University of Munich (LMU) | World War II, National Socialism, Migration, Informal Communication | Current Fellow at Princeton
@dacretu.bsky.social
Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. My first book available now: https://www.sup.org/books/history/foreign-aid-and-state-building-interwar-romania . Currently writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI
@albertogarcia17.bsky.social
Historian of Mexico and Latin America -- Author of Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (UC Press) -- Associate Professor at San José State University
@brettolmsted.bsky.social
PhD in 20th Cen. U.S. History (Latinx, Labor, Immigration, Politics). College professor. Forthcoming book: Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience (Illinois Press Fall 2025) Views my own / Reposts are not endorsements
@rkpejsova.bsky.social
East Central European, Modern Jewish, and Human Rights History at Purdue U. Shofar journal. Bard, CEU Budapest, Columbia alumna. Displacement, Dispersion, Diaspora. coffee, black. 🖤🧿 #skystorians 🗃
@somdeepsen.bsky.social
Associate Professor; IR, race, settler colonialism, Palestine; Decolonizing Palestine @CornellUP; Globalizing Collateral Language @UofGeorgiaP
@nowkasia.bsky.social
Researching history of refugees and the Vatican in the early Cold War www.katarzyna-nowak.com Uni of Vienna
@ladrayuri.bsky.social
Chicana historian of the modern United States with specialties in migration, race, Latinxs, labor, and indigeneity | Assistant Prof of History at UIUC
@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
@jfradkin.bsky.social
Historian, in a past life, of 17th-century ideas about religious toleration and refugee reception. Always happy to share my publications, just ask. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TynYcBYA
@kamack.bsky.social
Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com redsundayschool.org she/her
@jolaycock.bsky.social
Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Manchester.
@braun-strumfels.bsky.social
Transnational historian working at the intersection of Italian migration and US immigration policy. Author, Partners in Gatekeeping (UGA, 2023), coeditor and contributor, Managing Migration in Italy and the US (DeGruyter, 2024). Assoc Prof, Cedar Crest
@meganmaruschke.bsky.social
global studies J-Prof Universität Leipzig | transimperial history of refugees and the mobile poor in Philadelphia (1780-1830) | global history of SEZs and free ports
@benvanzee.bsky.social
Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
@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
@mjelmore.bsky.social
Historian of migration, borders, and immigration policy. Also religion. Food person. Cat person. Special needs advocate.
@timcauser.bsky.social
Principal Research Fellow, Bentham Project, @ucllaws.bsky.social Editing Bentham's works and correspondence. Historian of convict transportation and the Norfolk Island penal station.
@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
@shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social
Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
@emmawaterton.bsky.social
Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York. Heritage, identity, memory and affect; migrant heritage-making; community engagements; climate justice in the Anthropocene.
@allisonschmidt.bsky.social
itinerant historian. migration scholar. lecturer in international relations.
@eurekahenrich.bsky.social
Historian interested in all things 'm' (migration, museums, memory, material culture, medicine) and a few others too. Co-author of the 50th Anniversary History of the Australian Historical Association. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-eureka-henrich
@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.
@uttara.bsky.social
Historian of borders and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.
@tanjabueltmann.net
Professor University of Strathclyde | migration & diaspora history | history of collective action | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | unapologetically woke | she•her | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
@zepertug.bsky.social
Ph.D. in history - EHESS Intellectuals, propagandists - early republican Turkey Currently working on post-Ottoman asylum seekers and apatrides in Europe
@stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social
prof at UNC ⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
@idatolgensbakk.bsky.social
Folklorist at Norsk Folkemuseum. Migration history, folklore, childlore, netlore. ida.tolgensbakk@norskfolkemuseum.no
@martinfs23.bsky.social
Research associate at LISER-Luxembourg. Doing research on migration issues, history, and culture & contributing to evidence-based policy. https://sites.google.com/view/martinfernandezsanchez/
@simpep.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain, focusing on race, ethnicity, and migration histories. University of Warwick. Education Officer for History UK. Yma o Hyd. (he/him)
@muireannsmccann.bsky.social
PhD from EUI History interested in 19thC Ireland, Paris, Rome, migration, Catholicism and revolution (She/her)
@adamcrymble.bsky.social
History of migration | Trustee of Programming Historian | Interdisciplinary | Digital Humanities, Education & Research | He/Him | Own views. Book: Technology and the Historian (Illinois, 2021).
@claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Konstanz, working on 19th century transatlantic migration history, Feminist, coffee addict, interested in gender, family, the history of knowledge, and utopian engineering
@levkeharders.bsky.social
Gender History #UniInnsbruck & #CGI, Austria. Migration History, Intersectionality, Biography Research - and SciComm. She/her or any pronoun. (📷 M. Schmollgruber)
@leylaamzi.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
@conniethomas.bsky.social
Historian of early US migration politics & American identity Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk Comms @branchuk.bsky.social
@isabellaloehr.bsky.social
historian of modern Europe, global and international history, migration and knowledge, international law, professor at FU Berlin and ZZF Potsdam
@yiannicart.bsky.social
Lecturer in Greek Studies (Culture) History Teacher PhD (History) graduate @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Assistant Editor @jich.bsky.social https://yiannicartledge.wordpress.com/
@jsegerink.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Interested in lodging houses, migration history and urban history.
@sebastianhuhn.bsky.social
Historian/ Political Scientist at Osnabrück University, IMIS, living in Hamburg. Post-WW II history, Latin American history, refugees, migration, violence. Current rersearch projects: https://www.nghm.uni-osnabrueck.de/negotiating_migration/projects.html
@thigbie.bsky.social
I teach U.S. history & labor studies at a public university in California. First 40 years in the Midwest. Posting personal opinions about labor & migration history, worker organizing, higher ed policy, Midwest politics and regionalism. He/him.
@jeswehner.bsky.social
Modern History & Hist. Migration Research @UniOsnabrück/ @IMIS Forced Migration & Displaced Persons Research; History & Videogame Enthusiast
@sarasilverstein.bsky.social
Historian. Writer. Public & global health, rights, internationalism, migration, citizenship & statelessness, Modern & Eastern Europe. Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of History and Human Rights Institute. Views 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
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
@carolineauthaler.bsky.social
Transregional History, Imperialism, African History, Migration, OWL, Cycling mum
@kangborderlaw.bsky.social
Nau Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy Author of The INS on the Line (Oxford, 2017) Co-editor of Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States (UIP, 2025) Washington, D.C. & Charlottesville, VA
@lizzieajmartin.bsky.social
phd student @ birkbeck, uol. researching the history of the international refugee regime, disability, and the 'hard core' of 'difficult to resettle' displaced persons in postwar europe.
@historysunny.bsky.social
Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
@adelegarnier.bsky.social
Professeure agrégée /Associate Professor, Géographie, Université Laval. Coeditor of Refuge. Directrice du Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Sociétés (CELAT). Forced migration, temporary migration, multilevel governance.
@aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social
Researcher on migration, political economy, gender, labour economics, conflict and policy evaluation / #FirstGen / RT≠endorsement
@akgood.bsky.social
👨💻🚴🚆☕🌮🏳️🌈 Lifelong Michigander ✋. He/Him. Previously, co-founder + lead architect at https://duo.com/. Opinions are my own.
@riakapoor.bsky.social
Historian @ QMUL Refugees, Migration, and Rights Author of Making Refugees in India
@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.
@guprofbc.bsky.social
aka Prof BC, kbc. it's me! i'm the problem it's me! , Georgetown University, Harvard UP, writing abt the Phelps-Dodge family & copper mining, rage-tweets "work-life balance" #momprof #immigrationhistory #Arizona
@migrationmuseum.org
The Migration Museum in Lewisham has now closed. Thank you to everyone for an amazing 5 years. Exciting plans coming soon - watch this space 👀 Website: migrationmuseum.org Shop: shop.migrationmuseum.org
@ithacamcg.bsky.social
Historian of (im)migration at Cornell San Antonio Spurs fan 🏀
@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/
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Unwanted (@UNC_Press). Current President of @IEHS.
@jorgenleal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian | LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana... https://www.jorgenicolasleal.com/
@sfahrenthold.bsky.social
historian of Middle Eastern migration at UC Davis | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
@vhtroyansky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.
@artsofdenial.bsky.social
Dyslexic diabetic. Eclectic philosopher and political theorist. Art and cricket lover. Artisan kimchi maker. Recovering poet. Fortunate man. Interested in all things human (and some non-human). Apparently now meant to add FBA to all social media profiles.
@greeneland.bsky.social
Labor and migration historian @UMaryland. Pre-order Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal! https://tinyurl.com/Pre-Order-Box-25
@nellstra.bsky.social
Historian of transnational politics & religion between US & Latin America. Postdoc, SDSU. Co-founder, histcatmex.bsky.social. Social justice. Foodie. https://nathanellstrand.com/
@bethlewwilliams.bsky.social
Historian at Princeton University. Preoccupied with immigration, past and present.
@leol.bsky.social
Director of the International Institue of Social History in Amsterdam and professor in Global Labour and Migration History at Leiden University. My main interst is migration (history)
@carlygoodman.bsky.social
Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@marydudziak.bsky.social
Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism. https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃
@fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social
Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum. https://tinyurl.com/4snsdvzf