OzHE 1: Australian HASS academics
Academics in so-called Australia working in humanities, arts, and social sciences.
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@ikax.bsky.social
@joshuathorburn.bsky.social
PhD Student at Monash University researching online misogyny and internet forums that discuss experiences of singleness. Gender theory nerd.
@lyndang.bsky.social
Lecturer in World Literature (including Australian Literature) at The University of Melbourne; Honorary Associate at The University of Sydney. Views mine.
@vaveros.bsky.social
Libraries and digital literacies scholar as well as popular romance fiction. PhD teaching @ UTS. Walking, talking, storytelling and shallowreading. I sometimes forget the shallow part. shallowreader.com
@kayatbarry.bsky.social
Interested in mobilities – geography – art – migration – tourism – air travel – birds – weather // DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith Uni, AU. she/her
@amywayness.bsky.social
Historian of human antiquity in Australia writing critical histories of archaeology and settler intellectual logics. Lecturer @GriffithUniversity Collaborating Scholar @ANUDeepHistory Lover of Austen and AFL.
@flusterbird.bsky.social
nomadic ecology. environmental philosopher. writer. inter-dimensional skirmisher. some sort of academic. Insta @anthropocene_sunset she/her
@tomjconley.bsky.social
Political economy, industry policy, foreign policy, globalisation, debt/housing etc, art, cartoons, fiction ...
@anthonyburke.bsky.social
Australian political theorist & international relations professor. Climate, justice, biodiversity, ecodemocracy. He/him. New book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552554/the-ecology-politic About: https://www.anthonydburke.net
@kfullagar.bsky.social
Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
@kathryn-seymour.bsky.social
“Eccentric” eclectic vegan feminist. Applied social researcher. Interests: social justice. Criminology. Life course: youth, aging. Program design. Participatory research. Addictions: food preserving. Living with non-human animals. Flowers. Collecting stuff
@anisapuri.bsky.social
Historian, Author, Research Project Manager. Oral history, public history, Australian history, migration history. 📖 Australian Lives: An Intimate History she/her anisapuri.com
@brenchurchill.bsky.social
| ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in #Sociology | Co-chair, Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative + Tasmanian export at The University of Melbourne | Researching #Youth #underemployment #gigeconomy #FutureofWork + #care #Gender| ❤️ 🎾 🏳️🌈
@katemanlik.bsky.social
Queer unionist. Completing a PhD at MQ, with a broad interest in lesbian AIDS activism in Australia. Associate Research Fellow at UOW. They/she.
@ariadnevromen.bsky.social
Political Sociologist - citizen engagement, digital politics, young people, future of work, advocacy, & popular culture. Obsessed with dogs, coffee, chocolate From Sydney 🇦🇺 now living in Glasgow 🏴
@michellearrow.bsky.social
Historian. Author, The Seventies (2019), co-author Personal Politics (2024). Writing a biography of Anne Deveson. President, Australian Historical Association. Whitlam Institute Fellow. FASSA. She/her. Views my own. http://newsouthbooks.com.au/books.
@wadekelly.com
Senior Lecturer, Researcher Development Academy, Deakin University. Research Engagement and Impact is my main jam. I love a good terrazzo floor, typewriters, plaques and every dog I meet. he/him | 🏳️🌈 | 🇨🇦 in 🇦🇺
@benhanckel.bsky.social
Sociologist at Western Sydney University. Researching: youth studies, health & wellbeing, digital media, gender & sexuality. He/Him 🏳️🌈
@phillegitimate.bsky.social
Studying how gangs and govts do things with words. Teaching students to do things with words. Very occasionally doing things with words. Lecturer @ Flinders Uni Updates: https://philipljohnson.com/ 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🦇🦇🦇🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
@miriforbes.bsky.social
Quantitative Psychopathology | Associate Professor at Macquarie University on Wallumattagal land | views mine | she/her
@brucealexb.bsky.social
Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure.
@scotinoz.bsky.social
Art, architecture, cities, Japan, whippets, cats, literature, film. And food. Academic at Melbourne University. Deputy Director, Melbourne Centre for Cities.
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@mariarostrublee.bsky.social
International security, nuclear politics, Indo-Pacific security, diversity & inclusion | Professor, University of Melbourne | President, Women in International Security-Australia
@cjfrieman.bsky.social
D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Outgoing Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.
@philorchard.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations, Discipline Leader, Politics & Intl Studies @UOW; Co-Director @FutureofRights. International relations, forced and climate displacement & the R2P. Twitter: @p_orchard.
@chrisjordanclark.bsky.social
Bereaved mother. Feminist. Austen scholar. PhD. Writer. Reader. Artist. Horticulturist. Disabled. Angry pacifist. Atheist. Despair for the world. Masking and isolating. Covid isn’t over. Living in unceded lutruwita with a view of kanamaluka.
@ingridm.bsky.social
living on unceded lands of the sovereign Darug Peoples| BEc| LLB| PhD| ACAB| she/her| Abolition Feminist| Banner pic: tops of 4 concrete panels bolted together against a deep blue sky. Apartheid wall, Palestine.
@drfergusedwards.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
@sophieloywilson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history Also: Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216
@robbiemoore.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at UTAS. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him. open.spotify.com/user/rm508
@nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social
Academic. Political scientist researching public policy / admin & occasionally foreign policy via auspol + comparative analyses. Settler living on unceded Dharug country.
@hlmurray.bsky.social
Researching and teaching C19 US & Australian Lit, speculative genres, white supremacy, in Melbourne. she/her ‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now! https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
@ajaanmark.bsky.social
From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand. Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism. He/Him
@blairwilliams26.bsky.social
Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️🌈 Canberra/Naarm
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
@drejosephine.bsky.social
Gender Studies PhD. Literature Masters & Hons. Critical animal studies - men and masculinities; Cultural histories, Social futures. Utopia/Dystopia Sociologist, Narrative Therapist with #CRPS 💖 🐇s, manta rays #pigoneer Unceded Bundjalung Country, AUS
@sirexkat.bsky.social
More than just a reformed librarian and academic now supporting researcher skills with HASS & Indigenous data. ausglam.space/@infoventurer
@firkraags.bsky.social
Formerly of PC Powerplay. Now pitching to GamesHub, and being a freelance game reviewer. https://www.gameshub.com/author/meghannoneill/ Connecting with game devs, but not having a lot of time for social media ... Tell me about your game.
@annakent.bsky.social
Historian. International education, international development, scholarships.
@benswift.me
Computer scientist/researcher/dev and creative technologist (livecoder). Academic, but looks longingly over the fence sometimes. Judge me by my GitHub profile, not my h-index :) Senior Lecturer and Cybernetic Studio Lead at the ANU School of Cybernetics.
@elisabethrolston.bsky.social
early career historian (rulership, power, and historical narratives in the later middle ages); learning advisor @ university of wollongong. AI sceptic. 📍Dharawal country, NSW
@shineslike.bsky.social
An Australian-American museum geek in Baltimore. Program Head, Museum Studies @ GWU (on sabbatical). Sincereposting about museums, ethics, tech and culture. She/her/hers.
@proftimstephens.bsky.social
Professor of International Law, University of Sydney Law School. www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff/tim-stephens.html orcid.org/0000-0001-9678-2227
@cbkenkar.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention. 🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Co-host, You Made Me Watch That?! available wherever you get podcasts.
@dr-matthew-parnell.bsky.social
Experienced sustainability professional, facilitator, educator + catalyst for a living systems approach to sustainability transformation. At Yalukit Willam, Boonwurrung Country, Melbourne (Naarm), Australia.
@angelakintominas.bsky.social
Lecturer, UNSW Law and Justice. Feminist & critical legal theory, social reproduction, care, work, labour law, welfare states, migration. Editorial board member, Australian Feminist Law Journal.
@minoli.bsky.social
EdTech, majority world, and education. Doctoral student. Dog petter. Stress-cook. Recovering deliverer of rants. mino.li 📍Naarm
@carlawinston.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Melbourne. AmeriCanadian in Oz. Human Rights, International Law, Norms, Complex Systems, and dogs named Monkey.
@floydthek.bsky.social
Communist, philosophy-interested, Anglican, Manx speaker....the usual (if you're me)
@imoweg.bsky.social
Tea drinker. Cartophile. Lecturer in History at University of Tasmania. Currently writing a book about colonial land granting in Van Diemen's Land (lutruwita Tasmania) & crawling around archival rabbit holes. plotsandacres.wordpress.com
@chriscomerford.bsky.social
Lecturer in Comms & Media, University of Wollongong 📖 | Doctor of screens, fans & Batman 🦇 | Useless Trivia expert 🧠 | Ace Stardew Valley fisherman 🎣 | Views my own | He/Him
@theotherkim.bsky.social
Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Archaeology Center. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com.
@elliecrookes.bsky.social
Lecturer in English literatures at the University of Wollongong. Victorianism, medievalism, women, empire, and the occult. Currently writing a book on the post-medieval ‘Joans of Arc’ for Arc Humanities Press, 2025. On unceded Dharawal land
@drstephr.bsky.social
Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions
@drjessc.bsky.social
academia | the #humanities | popular culture | other whims. Literally wrote the book on #Eurovision & Australia. I teach politics, IR, and pop culture but still identify as cultural studies. Proud cat lady. Views are her own. https://linktr.ee/jesscarniel
@pepinneff.bsky.social
A/Professor of Public Policy. Focus on: Agenda-setting, inequality, and emotions - including LGBTQ+ politics and human-shark interactions. Let's talk more about poverty. Opinions are my own. (they/them): https://linktr.ee/chris.pepin
@suejackson.bsky.social
Geographer @ Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Expertise in water governance
@gamerlearner.bsky.social
Ed tech and eLearning guy, convenor of @TELedvisors SIG, PhD candidate USyd SFHEA He/Him Opinions are mine. Work stuff Newsletter http://bit.ly/edtechmustreads (Pro-tip - if you don't have a bio or any posts, I probably won't follow)
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
@binarythis.bsky.social
She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies researching femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, romance. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible 💅🏻🙇🏻♂️ www.hannahmccann.com.au
@jordanas.bsky.social
jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
@francismarkham.bsky.social
Geographer and public policy researcher and teacher at the Australian National University. Settler on stolen land. He/his. Opinions my own, not my employer's. I have never met with Brian Burke.
@imogenmarjorie.bsky.social
International law, books, food, Canberra, longing for a beach.
@brucebradbury.bsky.social
An Australian economist writing on social and economic policy and outcomes. https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/bruce-bradbury
@claerwen.bsky.social
Critical international law. Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, Co-Chair of the ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality and Int’ Law Interest Group & Editor, Australian Feminist Law Journal | they 💖💜💙
@anzsilgsil.bsky.social
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Interest Group for scholars and practitioners working in the field of gender, sexuality & int' law. Co-Chairs = Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige & Dr Claerwen O'Hara
@aflj.bsky.social
@profmdavis.bsky.social
@drjuliefraser.bsky.social
Aussie lawyer, PhD international law, Netherlands institute of human rights, catlady and feminist
@narrellemorris.bsky.social
Curtin Law School. Legal history, statutory interpretation, research and writing. Japan. Permanently at risk of being squashed by books in my office.
@ijalexander.bsky.social
copyright history | map history | intellectual property | cats
@genmwilkinson.bsky.social
University of Technology Sydney, Intellectual Property and Human Rights Scholar, Interested in Social Justice Implications of Technology
@cherylas1.bsky.social
Australian and comparative public law in form, theory and practice
@georgeduke21.bsky.social
Constitutional theory, legal theory, sociology of law, history of political and legal thought. A/Prof at Deakin University
@lesleyhead.bsky.social
Geographer at Unimelb, writer, berry farmer. Cultural dimensions of environmental & climate change issues.
@patrickstokes.com
A/Prof of Philosophy at Deakin Uni (all views mine). Writer, radio producer, half of The Fake McCoys. Works on digital death, personal identity, Kierkegaard, moral phil. Has more hobbies than advisable. Melbourne + Werona https://linktr.ee/patstokes
@hallwright.bsky.social
Humanitarian and disaster management professional turned 'academic'; ex-UNOCHA, ex-Red Cross, ex-fammer, ex-X; enjoys wine, food, the natural and social sciences; acknowledges the unfortunate job security that comes with working in humanitarian crises.
@clairefield.bsky.social
Writes about: higher education, vocational education and training, international education and GenAI/EdTech
@drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
@drspacejunk.bsky.social
Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Explorers Club 50, 2024 | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/
@airminded.org
Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
@lucyelm.bsky.social
medievalist • MA • interested in: royal legitimation, historical narratives and legends in 13-14th cent. Wales, Scotland, and England • in a constant state of wanderlust • in Melbourne/Naarm • she/her
@horrornonna.com
Your horror nonna ▾ professor/critic/programmer/author of 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, CINEMA COVEN, GIALLO CANVAS, RAPE-REVENGE FILMS, FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR FILMS, MASKS IN HORROR, MS 45, SUSPIRIA etc▾ Naarm/Australia ▾ she/her https://linktr.ee/suspirialex
@eliasgreig.bsky.social
Recovered Bookseller/academic; slow writer (he/him) Author of I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (A&U 2018). Opinions mine. Rep'd by @daniellebinks.bsky.social Email: eliasgreig@gmail.com (E-I-G)
@sokate.bsky.social
Exploring experience design for uncertain situations. Higher education sceptic. Climate worrier. Mostly over at aus.social.
@drnatosborne.bsky.social
Env + insurgent planning & human geography, urban social + env justice, radical spatial politics, abolitionist planning. Co-producer of @radioreversal.bsky.social, co-convenor Brisbane Free University. White settler on unceded Jagera & Turrbal Country
@lauraskh.bsky.social
Australian Senior Lecturer (=AssocProf), language, law & society. #LLIRN. External CESSMIR UGent. @languageonthemove.bsky.social member. Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed & prac, access to justice ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
@reneemiddlemost.bsky.social
Dr of cult movies| Communication and Media academic | researching celebrity, fans, film, and media audiences| pop culture nerd | coffee enthusiast | dog Ma | WSL/Matildas fan | views my own |
@amymarieboyle.bsky.social
Feminist researcher of popular culture, media studies, TV studies / PhD @UOW / Sessional Academic / views my own / she/her
@jordanmck.bsky.social
UOW Sociologist, vegan, cyclist, anti-anti-utopian, tragic Houston Rockets lifer. Latest books are Deconstructing Happiness & Dystopian Emotions. he/him.
@dnmcinnis.bsky.social
Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne). Lost plays. Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe. Co-Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr).
@michpeterie.bsky.social
Sociologist and ARC DECRA Senior Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney | Researching socio-emotional health and wellbeing | Views my own
@johnattridge.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network