An arbitrary starter pack of people I like!
A list of people I like, mostly because of their scholarship. As with all arbitrary things, it’s fully dependent on my whim. If you aren’t on it, it does not mean I don’t like you, just that I forgot that I have momentarily forgotten that I like you!!!
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@sasanianshah.bsky.social
@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
@hntdove.bsky.social
Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
@isisnaucratis.bsky.social
History+ancient Lands+Beings; Prof. @UofT /@UTSC; 12th generation French settler; YQB born CAI love; I decipher power; EverydayOrientalism; past=now; مصر دائما 🐍; I also draw; #Landback
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@flintdibble.bsky.social
⛏️ Archaeologist at Cardiff University. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛 2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos It's my real name | he/him www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@crystalennis.bsky.social
academic & author writing about labour & development in global political economy 🇨🇦🇴🇲🇳🇱 https://www.crystalennis.com/
@lucianozaccara.bsky.social
Research Associate Professor in Gulf Politics, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University.
@psardor.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate @oeaw | Editor of JESHO and JCAH | Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/ Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
@itoral.bsky.social
Arabic studies, premodern; climate, gender, politics; Spain, Germany and Europe..Madrid. Berlin. Cats. Owls. Food in history. History. Late Antiquity. Iraq and al-Andalus
@farridnejad.bsky.social
Professor of Iranian Studies، History, Languages & Cultures of the Near East, University of Hamburg، member of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC): Iranian Languages and Religions, Zoroastrianism, Judeo-Persian Literature
@hopesteffen.bsky.social
Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast. [Header: Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0320, f.120v]
@maartenkossmann.bsky.social
Berber linguistics // linguistique amazighe // ⵜⵎⵓⵙⵏⵉ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Universiteit Leiden https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maarten-kossmann
@medievalqabq.bsky.social
editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate associate prof at Columbia University
@robsteele.bsky.social
Historian at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
@robhaug.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
@ssecunda.bsky.social
Semi-nomadic Talmudist Professor at Bard College Contributing editor at @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
@oladavidson.bsky.social
Retired professor of Medieval Persian and Arabic Languages and Literature who taught at Brandeis, Wellesley and Boston University. Chair of Ilex Foundation. Life long Democrat and card carrying member of the ACLU. I like to paint and dance.
@rogueclassicist.bsky.social
I've been curating classics social media since the 1990s and still feel a need to do it! Classics /Ancient World feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/7cb2f06b13c0
@averilcam.bsky.social
Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
@kataplexis.bsky.social
Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. I like books, music, movies, and being in the Mediterranean (sailing and researching). PhD OSU, BA UCSD.
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social
Burnley girl in 🇩🇰, PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. 'Stealthily whimsical'. I want to live on a boat again. She/her. *All Roads Lead to Rome* out May 2025 with Aurum Press.
@sasanianshah.bsky.social
Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.