Historians of the Atlantic World
From the British, French, Iberian, and Dutch to the Black, Red, and Green Atlantic, c.1600-1900. Historians of empires, colonisation, indigenous cultures, slavery, immigration, religion, the circulation of goods and ideas, and rebellions and revolutions welcome.
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@joelherman.bsky.social
@gauthamrao.bsky.social
Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. edit Law & History Review. my opinions. he/him/his. Book projects on (1) slavery + laws; (2) The West Wing.
@thehistoriann.bsky.social
Historian of the global Spanish empire living and working on Wurundjeri country. Author of Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (2024).
@fredrikjonsson.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New book: Scarcity with Carl Wennerlind (Harvard 2023). Next: Britain's fossil transition 1760-1870 and, with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1870-1914.
@speakerconolly.bsky.social
Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator
@kyleroberts6.bsky.social
Scholar of Atlantic World Religion, Public History, and Digital Humanities. Executive Director of the Congregational Library & Archives, Boston - https://www.congregationallibrary.org/
@kellybrignac.bsky.social
Asst Prof of History - Atlantic, French Empire, Slavery/Abolition. It's the Gulf of Mexico
@curiousmonolith.bsky.social
Prof at Santa Clara University. 🏳️🌈 Writer of books on American literature. Editor of Re-Editions series at Lever Press. Writing a book on the 1970s. Reclaimer of bad texts and decades.
@julialaite.bsky.social
Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to three ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
@lizegan.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the Caribbean (She/Her). Duolingo obsessive and probably running late. Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick & RA, Trinity Hall. ECR Rep History UK & Conference Coordinator Society for Caribbean Studies
@mljo.bsky.social
Phd candidate at Harvard University studying the history of slavery in the early 19th c Caribbean. Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
@bethanyhenderson.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student in History Medieval + Early Modern Europe | Religion and Belief Systems | Piracy & the Atlantic World 📍University of New Brunswick bethanyhenderson.com
@wanderingyeti.bsky.social
Historian, Archivist, Photographer. Will happily chat about most things but especially about maritime history, swordfighting, folklore, D&D, and dusty boxes full of old stuff. I’m also a tired human who is going to grad school...again. She/Her 🏳️🌈
@gracemallon.bsky.social
British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. I write about government and constitutionalism in the 18th and 19th centuries.
@mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Medieval & Early Modern Women / + oddities in Iberia, the British Isles, South America / audiovisual poetry + intersemiotic translation + ludic performance. Neurodivergent.
@aipsmith.bsky.social
Professor of US Political History at Oxford. Director of the Rothermere American Institute. Research conservatism, parties, Civil War. Host of The Last Best Hope? Podcast.
@rafaelaaf.bsky.social
Librarian, historian of Colonial Latin America, mom, y un montón de otras cosas.
@annaelin.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Media & Communication at Naz U (Rochester, NY). Critical/cultural approaches┃Race + representation┃Mid-19th-cent. Cuba┃Student identity, language, + belonging┃Social justice activism https://sites.google.com/view/annaelindnerphd/home
@karimwafa.bsky.social
Indigenous Writer. Historian. Lecturer & Poet. PhD in Southern African American History. I write about culture, identity, empire and books. Author of: child of a stolen homeland For more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
@dffreeman.bsky.social
Dutch Atlantic historian, Associate Professor of history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, soccer/football lover
@kellylwatson.bsky.social
Aspiring Crone. She/her. Mother of cats. Lover of Gluten www.kellylwatson.com Historian. Women’s & Gender Studies Director. Histories of gender, sex, colonialism, indigeneity. Author: https://tinyurl.com/ymurcu2u
@dwaldstreicher.bsky.social
Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
@eranzelnik.bsky.social
US Historian, recovering former Zionist, author of “American Laughter American Fury,” on white men’s humor in the early US. CFA union VP, Chico chapter, dogdad
@drjohnaeharris.bsky.social
Historian of slavery and abolition. Author of The Last Slave Ships: NYC & The End of The Middle Passage (Yale, 2020). Working on a new book Spying on The Slave Trade 🕵️. Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane N. Ireland - U.S. https://www.johnaeharris.com/
@keithsgrant.bsky.social
PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | CoEditor http://earlycanadianhistory.ca
@ethanhealey.com
Historian of Early America and the Early Republic. History Teacher. Constant Reader. Horror Enthusiast. Tolkien aficionado. New England native. Future ghost. TIME’s 2006 Person of the Year. The Historians Bookshelf: ethanhealey.com
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
@proenzacoles.bsky.social
Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & post American history.
@miguelchavez.bsky.social
Historian // Assistant Prof. @cumberlandu / PhD @VanderbiltU / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // currently: lecture prepping! 😅 site: miguelchavez.net
@feyero.bsky.social
postdoc @binghamtonu. @DukeU phd. health/disease in Latin America & the Caribbean. writing: ATLANTIC ANTIDOTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST VACCINE
@sethrockman.bsky.social
Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
@timtimothy87.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c Ireland & the British Empire. Faculty at Marquette University (WI, USA). Researching national identity, empires, decolonization, popular culture, especially religion.
@leannecalvert.bsky.social
Historian of the Family working on Sexualities, Religion, & Gender in Ireland & the Atlantic World. Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
@jayroszman.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at University College Cork. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Book on agrarian violence and British policy w Cambridge (2022). Next project on Irishmen, education, and empire.
@richardsonv.bsky.social
I am currently finishing my dissertation exploring the social construction of diseases. I focus on the gendered and racialized diseases of Chlorosis, Pica, and Cachexia Africana during the 18th and early 19th century British Atlantic World.
@ninalamal.bsky.social
Historian | Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) | #earlymodern publishing, politics, and diplomacy | The Low Countries, the Italian peninsula & the Holy Roman Empire | Archive dweller, coffee-lover, and pasta-addict
@marihetti.bsky.social
PhD candidate in 18th century Iberoamerican historiography 🧭 Universitat de València Do 🇧🇷, agora na 🇪🇸
@millerswright.bsky.social
Asst Professor of History @ODU: Native Slavery in Brazil and Carolina, Matrilineages, Atlantic. Itinerant.
@annabellelaf.bsky.social
PhD History about transatlantic letters in the 18th century, between Basque country, Aquitaine and French colonies. Maritime & colonial history. CORBAN project & Prize Papers Project. Rugbywoman, fan of photography, videogame, Tifosi and ocean lover 🌊🏉📸🏎️🎮
@michelleorihel.bsky.social
Caregiver. Historian. Associate Professor. 1790s Politics and Print Culture. Transatlantic Revolution. Yellow Fever. Views my own, not my employer
@teresagoeltl.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UniHeidelberg/EHESS Paris on Slavery, Medical & Legal History in the French Atlantic 🌎 Part of the ERC-project "Fever - Global Histories of (a) Disease"
@maryhicks.bsky.social
Author: Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671468/captive-cosmopolitans/
@christinefertig.bsky.social
History of Consumption & Material Culture in Early Modern Germany, of Household & Family, Historical Social Network Research, Rural Society, Drug Trade and Medicine, 17th-19th century https://sites.google.com/view/christinefertig/start?authuser=0
@womenof1000.bsky.social
Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/ PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music. she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
@agentlazero.bsky.social
Prof @UNB. Historian of capitalism and settler colonialism. Book: The Debt of Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State (UBC Press, 2025). Work: Eels + the impacts of racial capital on Treaty in Wəlastəkwey territory. Tamil, eats lentils
@josgagne.bsky.social
Historien, Archiviste aux Archives nationales à Québec #7YearsWar #18thcentury #FrenchColonial #NewFrance #NouvelleFrance #VastEarlyAmerica #WillHistoryForFood Opinions = miennes. https://novafrancia.wordpress.com/ Instagram: @josgagne
@karinabwendling.com
Historian of 18/19c. Religion, education & politics in Ireland, Haiti, and transatlantic empires Associate Professor (MCF) @Univ_Lorraine @IDEA_UL Ass. Researcher LEM-CNRS Coord. MIRCOM project MSH -Lorraine RHS ECR 🇨🇵🇫🇮 karinabenazechwendling.wordpress.com
@briandelay.bsky.social
Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
@benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social
Maritime historian & Senior Researcher @National Museum of Denmark interested in global connections - especially early modern Danish-Norwegian trading companies and their encounters.
@lizcovart.bsky.social
Historian | Researcher of Articles of Confederation | Creator of Ben Franklin’s World: An Award-Winning Podcast About Early American History | Celtics & Red Sox Fan https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
@emdillon.bsky.social
Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2026). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic. Monoculture, autoimmune disease, poetry.
@thiagokrause.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Wayne State University, History/African American Studies. Brazilian in the US. Opinions my own, do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
@jamesafox.bsky.social
Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk
@tlecaque.bsky.social
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. He/him.
@carlosfnorena.bsky.social
Humanist | 🇪🇦 | Ancient Historian | 🎛 🎹🎚| He/Him https://history.berkeley.edu/carlos-f-norena
@johngmarks.com
Historian and writer. New book about how Americans remember George Washington and slavery forthcoming in 2026 w/ @uncpress.bsky.social. Vice President of Research & Engagement at AASLH. www.johngmarks.com
@cpinnen.bsky.social
Professor Mississippi College, Co-Director African American Studies, 🇩🇪🇺🇸Award winning author #VastEarlyAmerica Bio here: http://bio.site/CPinnen
@racheltils.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History at UChicago-Atlantic and Caribbean worlds-slavery, internal markets, policing, economic autonomy-18th c. French and British Empires
@kennethowen.bsky.social
Dad. Teacher. Historian. In that order. Political historian, studying secession movements. Also studying early America. Probably running or watching sports.
@camcord.bsky.social
PhD Student in Early Modern History. Saint-Domingue, Le Cap-Français, Urban History of the Caribbean, Food and Consumption, Spatial Analysis. Creator of the project : https://streetsoflecap.com/
@henrysnow.bsky.social
Labor historian | they/them | political economy, maritime work, ships and shipbuilders | CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso 5/26/26 subscribe to my newsletter, Another Way buttondown.com/anotherway
@bydreamphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Insta: @bydreamphd
@franrbell.bsky.social
VAP in History at Bates College; W&M and Woodson Institute alum. Researching mobility, the Haitian revolutionary diaspora, and freedom-seeking in the early United States. Handy with a knitting needle, happy on a bicycle. She/her.
@brookenewman.bsky.social
Historian of Britain & empire; cocktail enthusiast; lover of books, pets, podcasts, & snark. Upcoming—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
@jlhill.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Specializing in Early American, Caribbean, Native American, and Atlantic World history. http://pitt.academia.edu/JamesLHill
@profjennyshaw.bsky.social
Historian in Roll Tide country. All things early modern Caribbean. The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery out now with UNC Press. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸
@joplingn.bsky.social
PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic, and Piracy 🏴☠️
@danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social
I study early modern & long eighteenth-century Protestantism. Working on evangelical hymns in slavery, mission, and abolition currently. Infrequent guitarist. Views my own
@carolyneastman.bsky.social
Historian, professor, book review editor, and reader, currently writing a book about Black and white New Yorkers' experiences with yellow fever during the 1790s.
@chrisparsons.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Medicine, and the Environment in colonial North America at Northeastern. Author of A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (UPenn, 2019).
@alworiginal.bsky.social
DPhil candidate LMU Munich, Amerika-Institut | historian, early America and 1790s BritAm diplomatic history | British influence in early Am foreign policy | revolutionary narrative | formerly 🇯🇵🇩🇪
@gamesaf.bsky.social
@joycechaplin.bsky.social
Harvard professor, historian of science, technology, medicine, food, climate, and biodiversity 🜃 (https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/joyce-chaplin) New book: THE FRANKLIN STOVE (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613808/thefranklinstove/)
@micahtrue.bsky.social
Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at U of Alberta • Early modern New France and France (literature, history, theatre) • Translator/translation studies • Zags hoops • books • academic life. *Coming in 2025: The Jesuit Relations: A Biography*
@davidwilsonhist.bsky.social
Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
@prizepapers.bsky.social
The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection stored at The National Archives, UK. It is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the National Archives, UK. Learn more: www.prizepapers.de
@tedmccormick.bsky.social
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him
@drmishaewen.bsky.social
Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | Editor at English Historical Review |
@adamrothman.bsky.social
No kings! Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
@historianmairi.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings. Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php
@drhardesty.bsky.social
Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery. Most recent book: https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
@ookwow.bsky.social
Historian of the 17th C. Americas: environment, plants, failed colonies, maps and more. Lover of travel, languages, stationery, and dresses. Wyoming isn't real unless you want to come visit me.
@mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social
Early modern historian @ghilondon.bsky.social Currently thinking about how to write history in times of climate crisis. Also: Early modern utopias / Historical time experiences / Environmental history of the British Empire
@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
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Check my new book: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo229867701.html #slaveryarchive
@roperlou.bsky.social
Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq Co-General Editor, Journal of Early American History Professor @ SUNY-New Paltz. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
@muireannsmccann.bsky.social
PhD from EUI History interested in 19thC Ireland, Paris, Rome, migration, Catholicism and revolution (She/her)
@raioxford.bsky.social
The RAI is a Department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. Check out our podcast, The Last Best Hope with our Director, Professor Adam Smith! https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
@nmkennedy.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
@jeremyland.bsky.social
Econ and Biz Historian of the Early Modern World, including but not limited to trade, war, and state capacity. Researcher at Uni Helsinki, Meetings Coordinator of the Econ Hist Assoc, and Exec. Director of @socscihistory.blsky.social. More: jeremyland.org
@clairejowitt.bsky.social
Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project, book series co-editor, Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 (AUP) https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
@bhgreeley.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the history of finance at Princeton. Working on early-modern Atlantic currencies. Writing a trade-press history of the dollar and a dissertation about the guinea. I used to be a journalist. I used to be a lot of things.
@ducorkid.bsky.social
Professor of African Diaspora History, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland | ⚽️ enthusiast
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
Historian http://earlymodernjustice.org/ Sample articles: https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/ https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf Opinions my own
@naomipullin.bsky.social
Historian of 17thC & 18thC British Atlantic. Author of Female Friends and Transatlantic Quakerism, working on solitude in early modern Britain. Associate Professor @warwickhistory