Social Movement Scholars Starter Pack
Interdisciplinary list of researchers who study social movements in some form
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@jocelynl.bsky.social
@davidstein.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of History, UCSB. Former fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Social movements & political economy—civil rights movement; economic policy; inflation; mass incarceration.
@naomimaephd.bsky.social
Activist/Organizing Scholar. Hometown of Southeast San Diego, CA. Grounded in soul community and coalition-building. Assistant Prof- UW Madison.
@jamesmjasper.bsky.social
I have written about politics and culture for forty years, more recently focusing on social movements and emotions. I split my time between Asheville, NC, and Anna Maria Island, FL.
@rickcolbourne.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business - focus is on emancipatory entrepreneurship, social justice, just transitions, and hybrid venture creations. I integrate activism and community-based participatory action research in my work.
@airi-alina.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural Diversity at Tallinn University; studies of DIY cultures; youth; different minorities; activism; participation via social media
@touboel.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology, studying civil society, volunteering and protest. Editor of Acta Sociologica. www.soc.ku.dk/jonastouboel
@nilskumkar.bsky.social
Sociologist, working mostly on social theory, qualitative methods, protest, critique, and their discontents.
@dekkermischa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Universiteit Leiden NWO-Veni | @MSCActions Gender-based violence | street harassment | masculinity | politics | policy | media
@amische.bsky.social
Notre Dame sociologist working on culture, social movements, civic participation, political parties, peace/conflict, futures, and foresight techniques. "Mas é preciso ter manha, É preciso ter graça, É preciso ter sonho sempre." (Nascimento/Brant + Elis!)
@ejmccann.bsky.social
Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.
@darksilveroak.bsky.social
🌹 * wayward business school prof at temple u: labor movement, sustainability, critical management studies * TAUP * grown girls & plott hound mama * trail tripper
@hajogu.bsky.social
political sociologist @wzb.bsky.social & @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social 🔎 civil society, movements, organizations, secessionism, and the far right. 🎓 PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore 📖 "Organizing for Independence" AUP
@eborbath.bsky.social
💼 Junior Professor for participation research at the Heidelberg University and guest at the @wzb.bsky.social 🧑🎓 PhD from the European University Institute 🔎 parties, movements, cleavages, climate politics 🏃🚴🌄
@teraqerat.bsky.social
Research on Protests & Authoritarianism in Asia | Center for Conflict Studies Marburg | Coordinator BMBF project @postcolh.bsky.social | Principal Investigator DFG project @afpro.bsky.social More: tasyd.com teraqerat.substack.com
@lisadiedrich.bsky.social
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, Keywords/Images in Graphic Medicine, & Multi-modal Pedagogies in Action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION. Blogging at: lisadiedrich.org
@liselhintz.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Studying identity, FP, authoritarianism, protest, pop culture, other media. Turkey focus.
@mathijsvdsande.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Political Philosophy at Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL). Research on protest, radical democracy and communalism. Member of @doorbraak.eu. Has a trombone and is not afraid to use it.
@drsarahliu.bsky.social
political scientist researching/teaching on #gender #politics #migration #protest #Asia #academia http://drsarahliu.com/
@alexciordia.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Centre on Social Movement Studies (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence) Previously: COALESCE Lab (UAB, Barcelona) | PhD: University of Trento 🔍 activism, polarization, social network analysis Webpage: cosmos.sns.it/person/3664/
@swaziadam.bsky.social
Prof at UCSD. Teaching, organizing & researching to end fossil fuels & build wider social movement capacity for defense of speech, public goods & community resilience.
@lizhumphrys.bsky.social
UTS Political Economist of work and labour, especially climate change impacts on WHS. Associate at Centre Future Work & Editor Social Movement Studies. Cats. Electroclash. Carlton AFL tragic 🌈
@melaniebrazzell.bsky.social
social movement research, postdoc @ Harvard Kennedy What Really Makes Us Safe? project on transformative justice: https://www.whatreallymakesussafe.com/ Building Democratic Structure Shapes project: https://www.p3researchlab.org/building_structure_shapes
@nmanabe.bsky.social
Professor of Music Theory; also work in ethnomusicology and Japan studies. Research in music and social movements, popular music, music and language. Author of Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
@danialvahabli.bsky.social
He/him | Sociology Ph.D. Student @ SUNY SBU, Graduate Fellow @ IACS | Computational Social Science, Social Movements, Media, Protest Art | IR-TR-NY www.danialvahabli.com
@weijun-yuan.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate @UCIsociology: collective action/social movements, networks, organization, and media. Website: yuan-weijun.com
@khayyamnamazov.bsky.social
researcher & writer Ph.D cand. in Sociology | soc. movements | decolonization of knowledge https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2023.2281532
@bdmabrams.bsky.social
Deputy Chair @UCLSociology.bsky.social Chief Ed. Contention (https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/contention-overview.xml)
@dbtindall.bsky.social
UBC sociology professor. Environment, social networks, social movements. Tweets on environment, climate change, social and political issues, & some satire.
@drrosiew.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR, researching girls' activism, gender and development, corporate genderwashing. Feminist. Editor-at-Large at E-International Relations. She/her. Views my own.
@emanuelubert.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at RSM, Erasmus University | Org Learning & Adaptation • (Goalless) Search • Industry Evolution vs. Design • Climate Crisis & Insurance • Cognition, Collective Sensemaking & Social Imagination • Reluctant Utopian • Failing Boddhisatva.
@victorsilverman.bsky.social
Author, Filmmaker, Professor of Contemporary US and International History. Emeritus Professor Pomona College.
@lennartschuermann.bsky.social
PostDoc at Harvard University & WZB Berlin Social Science Center Protest | political participation | representation | European politics | computational social science. Prev. Uni of Cologne & Goethe Uni Frankfurt More: schuermannl.github.io
@fcastrog.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher @ ISDC (@isdcberlin.bsky.social). PhD Humboldt Uni. Intrastate conflict, social movements, and political violence. from 🇨🇱 in 🇩🇪 https://francisca-castro.com/
@stevedarcy.bsky.social
Antifascism, philosophy. Author, “Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy” (2013); “Frege and Fascism” (Routledge, 2025).
@nicholasparker.bsky.social
Environment, social science, and other nasty words. Personal postings. Please message me. ☘️
@berglundoscar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Policy Studies, University of Bristol, co-editor @policy-politics.bsky.social, Co-President UCU Bristol, research climate change activism, criminalisation of protest, civil disobedience, critical political economy
@jamesozden.bsky.social
Founder of socialchangelab.org, doing social movement research. Previously organising grassroots climate & animal advocacy movements. Now working in philanthropy to help end factory farming.
@carolinavestena.bsky.social
Interim Professorship for Political Theory, Universität Kassel. Editor Global Dialogue - ISA. Legal Theory, Social and labour movements, GVCs - Dialogue Germany/Brazil - BR/DE/EN
@charliejgardner.bsky.social
Conservationist, activist, writer and researcher, rebelling against extinction
@daphnecarr.bsky.social
Here for sound, abolition, & liberation thru teaching, reading, learning, art making, writing, organizing, & mutual aid. NE Ohio and beyond. Also an American/Sound Studies and Music person. Solidarity for ever ever. Stay loud.
@andyhoffman.bsky.social
Holcim (US) Professor, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
@nenaoana.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. (PT) at EUI, Florence | PhD from CEU Political Science | Methods and R 🤓 | EU & crisis politics, Public Opinion and behavior, Protest 📎 http://nenaoana.github.io
@aminghaziani.bsky.social
Sociologist. Co-editor of Contexts. Author of Long Live Queer Nightlife (Princeton). www.aminghaziani.net
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.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
@juliettes.bsky.social
PhD researcher at the EUI working on networks, protests and migration. https://www.juliettesaetre.com/ 🌞
@emilygodwin.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate @ University of Bristol Business School | PhD student @ University of Bath | Social scientist | Researching all things digital culture, specifically conspiracy theories https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/emily-godwin
@tungohan.bsky.social
Host of academic aunties podcast, researcher, activist, avid reader, author of "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care and Movement-building." Canada Research Chair in Canadian migration policy, impacts & activism.
@thierryaaron.bsky.social
Graduate student at Cardiff University - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
@profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social
Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
@kaimthaler.bsky.social
Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com
@purekimminess.bsky.social
True to the Kimminess Conflict/methods/pol econ teaching and rocking research methods crsslab.com "Doom scrolling (it's back again)" "check it, wreck it, let's begin" "I'm incredible....cuz I does what I do." -Craig Mack
@snepstad.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico (USA), studying social movements, revolutions, religion, civil resistance - and guardian of way too many pets and plants
@paologerbaudo.bsky.social
Senior researcher in Social Science, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Interested in social movements, populism, political organisation, technology.
@rubencampos.bsky.social
South Asia, Democracy & Nonviolent Movements Scholar. @clubdemadrid.bsky.social Programs Director @rielcano.bsky.social Senior Fellow. Proud father-28 years in love with my wife. https://clubmadrid.org/who/secretariat/campos-ruben/
@clarebath.bsky.social
Sociology PhD student @ndsociology.bsky.social, MA in Peace and Justice from the University of San Diego. Researching transnational social movements, development in unrecognized countries, civil society, and politics.
@annayahprosser.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at the University of Bath School of Management | Interested in moral identities, sustainability, activism, open qualitative research & societal transformation | She/Her | FirstGen |🌈 | BLM |Opinions my own https://linktr.ee/annayahmbprosser
@feligsantos.bsky.social
Multiemployed PostDoc at City, University of London and Babeş-Bolyai University, researching social movements and political parties of the left and the far-right. Free time Climber 🧗♂️ www.felipegsantos.com
@jan-saendig.bsky.social
Peace and conflict researcher, INFRAGLOB & Conflicts.Meanings.Transitions, University of Bayreuth | Social movements, corporations, violence | Western & Central Africa | http://jansaendig.de
@sarahsoule.bsky.social
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director of CASBS at Stanford University.
@jepozner.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Management, Santa Clara University. Pop culturista studying craft food, clothing, and both varieties of judgy b***h (i.e., social evaluators and Real Housewives). Speaker, board member, community leader.
@antidogmatist.bsky.social
Thinker, writer, agroecologist, educator, facilitator, fatherer, drummer, partner, former tweeter, snacker, etceterer antonioromanalcala.com for more stuffs
@anna-kruzynski.bsky.social
✊️ shi[f]t disturber 🇵🇸 educator 🏳️🌈 settler co-resister in Tio'tia:ke ✊️ ✊️ tannante 🏴 éducatrice 💜 allochtone solidaire à Tio'tia:ke ✊️ #landback #freepalestine
@onglynette.bsky.social
http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
@neilwarner.bsky.social
Researcher in political sociology at LSE. Interested in history & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
@joserubiomar.bsky.social
Literatura, imaginación, Critical Pedagogy et al. | Dreams provider 📝📷🌳 🇨🇴
@farahkodeih.bsky.social
🇱🇧🇫🇷 Associate prof @IESEG, Paris Org theory, Business & Society • interested in marginalization, forced displacement, civil society, business & human rights • Views my own
@oonuch.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM Democracy in wartime, GeoPols EU DisInfo Vote Protest Identity Polls 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺 📚Zelensky Effect 📚Mapping Mass Mobilization Visit. Prof College D’Europe Prev Oxford Nuffield/St Antonys; Harvard; UofT
@cihantugal.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley Working on a book on right-wing populism https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
@ckoons.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communication. Rhetoric, music, ethics, social movements.
@silkeroth.bsky.social
sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
@geoffreypleyers.bsky.social
President of the International Sociological Association FNRS Professor at UCLouvain Global Sociology, Social Movements, Religion, Democracy, Ecology, Youth, Latin America
@alexhensby.bsky.social
Sociologist at University of Kent. Research UK & US social movements, race and higher education, and the social causes of political (non) participation.
@rc48-isa.bsky.social
Official BlueSky Account of RC48: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change of the International Sociological Association. Website: https://isarc48.com/
@matthewborus.bsky.social
Sociologist, social work faculty Posting topics include community, disability, social welfare, Chicago, social movements, organizing, policy, the state, labor, coffee, and various nerdy side trips. Personal account
@laurathowal.bsky.social
Environmental social scientist @ Yale University (YPCCC) Working on climate activism, plant-based diets, messaging experiments etc. https://lathowal.wixsite.com/laura-thomas-walters
@nereamontejo.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Scuola Normalee Superiore. working on social movements, temporality and strategy against capitalism
@misskstrong.bsky.social
prof of Black Studies in Ed at Rutgers. organizer. scholar of youth+activism+ed in Africa/n diaspora. anthropologist by training. jawn by birth. shady by nature
@mportosg.bsky.social
Senior Assistant Prof, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences @sns.it | PhD from @eui-eu.bsky.social | Social movements, political participation, inequalities martinportos.wordpress.com
@akliluhabtu.bsky.social
Anthropologist interested in Black Geographies | Transnational food commodity chains | Afro–Diasporic Identities | Political Economy | Political Ecology | The Anthropocene
@elimelby.bsky.social
PhD fellow in sociology, University of Bergen Associated researcher, CRAPUL University of Lausanne Political Sociology, gender, social movements, grassroots organizing in the Yellow vests Currently Fulbright Fellow, UC Berkeley
@drmehmetyavuz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ K-State | PhD @umanitoba.bsky.social | Peace and Conflict Studies | Balkans | Middle East | Queer Studies | Transitional Justice |Activism| 🇧🇦🇨🇾🇹🇷🏳️🌈🧿| Opinions are my own| 📍Manhattan, KS
@helgeschwiertz.bsky.social
Social and political theory, migration, racism, social movements, citizenship, solidarity and radical democracy / #sociology / Acting Professor, University of Hamburg: http://uhh.de/wiso-helge-schwiertz / ESCEuro research project https://europefrombelow.ne
@jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Repression/resistance/(non)violence • Director of Research Unit Radical Spaces @interactfu.bsky.social • pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will • https://www.jannisgrimm.com/
@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.
@sehaunss.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science, SOCIUM, University of Bremen. Protest, Social Movements, and CSS
@sabinedvolk.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), University of Tübingen, Germany I Far right, populism, memory, social movements.
@summerharlow.bsky.social
Associate Director @knightcenterut.bsky.social at UT-Austin, researching the intersections of journalism, activism, and technology in Latin America. Author of http://bit.ly/3E8lqWd & http://bit.ly/2rlWCmf. Dog mom to Piñata.
@lidiasalvatori.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at CEFIR (Center for International Relations Studies), Université de Liège. Writer and translator of things, sea lover, traveller, annoyingly meticulous suitcase organiser, always in transit. She/her 🌈☮
@bettyferrari.bsky.social
AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Previously: University of Glasgow (UK). Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech. Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/ Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76e
@jinsookkim.bsky.social
Feminist media scholar | Assistant professor, Media Studies, Emory University | Writing a book about digital media, online misogyny, and feminist activism in South Korea | she/her | Views my own www.jinsookkim.com
@saifshahin.bsky.social
👨🏼🎓 Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University 🌍 Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD ✂️ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics 🪶 #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
@dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social
I teach, research, consult on #diaspora #justice #education #humanrights #migration #Balkans. PhD. Refugee. Vermonter. Transnational Bosnian American.