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Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Trustee of the Hellenic Society. Working class academic.
Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Assistant Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
(she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable
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Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Docteur en Sciences de l'éducation : La scolarisation du jeu vidéo par les enseignants (Laboratoire Experice / Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Prof d'Histoire-Géographie (Académie de Créteil)
Jeux video & Histoire sur YouTube : www.youtube.com/c/JVH
Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO
Opinions are my own ¬ the views of my employer
Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games
Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth
Principal Investigator for www.vagaboundsresearch.org
PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023)
Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form
www.relativenostalgia.com
www.jsweeting.me
Soy una cierva albina en @arqueocerva.bsky.social. Con un mando en una mano 🎮 y un pico en la otra ⛏️. Historiador, arqueólogo clásico y sobretodo archaeogamer. En estos momentos sobreviviendo en Italia como PhD en arqueología y videojuegos #archaeogaming
History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Historian in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, alt text, and DEIA. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Ephemeral Record of queer and trans histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance) (MIT)
ecfriedman.com
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PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | lifting my skinny fists like antennas to heaven | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him)
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Writer | Historian | Post-doc, UNICAMP | ARISE, Middle Ages in Modern Games 🎮 Stair na hÉireann 🍀 Environmental History 🐈⬛ Cat dad | Gaeilge
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Composer and wargame designer.
Composer for Blackheart, RED ECHO, REKKR, the Ruins of Calaworm, and Outer Ring MMO - www.tom-jensen.com
Designer of Missile Threat, War by Sail, Lacquered Coffins, Hind & Seek, Ukraine 2022, Ostfront, etc.
Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Being rude will get you blocked.
Thing that writes, and sleeps. Not that other asshole.
The Sunday Scaries appear weekly at ghoulishdelights.com
pat-harrigan.com
Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects.
✒ Understands about semicolons
🐺 Monster enthusiast
🕹️ Games @spaceboat.bsky.social
🎵 Metalhead
📖 34 books published
🎙️ Legends and Lectures / Archaeoscoop
https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
An assistant professor in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Palacký University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Designated departmental baker (he/him) Signal: kurtishanlon.33
Historian at Laurentian University (Canada). Researching early modern crime and urban women's lives, but I can never stay away from questions of popular culture & history. Gamer, fan, fibre artist.
Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Associate Professor of Performance & Pedagogy. I think of myself as an Ethical Paladin but am known for intimacy choreography, larp, immersive theatre, laughing loudly, teaching teachers, adopting dogs, & editing the Journal of Consent-Based Performance
English Prof, Indiana U of PA • Currently writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • The Digital Storytelling Project • Teaching focused on Decision Education, Literary Study, and Game Design • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
PhD Candidate in medieval literature at CUNY Grad Center | writing a dissertation on medieval romance, game studies, and premodern race
She/her
🌺 Okinawan/Ryukyuan diaspora
✨Professional Yapper
👩🏫 Dork Academia
Página do laboratório de pesquisa ARISE, sediado na FURG e vinculado ao MAE-USP | ⛏️ Archaeogaming | 🎲 Historical Game Studies | 🎮 Métodos digitais
Asst. Prof @ Kutztown, Art History | Mixed bag Medievalist obsessed w/Matilda of Canossa, video games, virtual reality & 3D models. PhD @ UofYork 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (They/Them)
🤓 Co-Founder @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social; 🎤 ancient history podcaster; ☀️ Luceo Non Uro 🔥; 🇬🇷 Classics & Film/TV PhD student @ Bristol Uni; 🎮 Archaeogamer; ☕️ tea connoisseur; 🎭 Musical theatre enthusiast
Historian and college professor. Co-editing a book on public history and campus activism (SUNY press). Writing another on Native American mobility in the US-Canadian Borderlands. Trying to learn trumpet. Photog.
www.johnlegg.org
Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media.
The School of Innovation & Technology at The Glasgow School of Art
Writer. Prof. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Geospatial computing, user studies, emergency management, workforce development, and vintage tech.
The spaces between these domains contain insights we have forgotten.
Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | 🇧🇪 in 🇳🇱 | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Environmental historian and game designer; mom to an amazing boy and animals.
Assistant Professor | Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University. Trans media studies | Trans histories of glitches, electronic art, software, video games, and networked & computational media. https://linktr.ee/whitpow
Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
www.hajjtrail.com/game
HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Iberian hermit, keeper of the dead, remembrancer, narration devourer. Sworn to the black and red. I teach Anthropology at the University of Valladolid and, sometimes, I even write about games and myths.
Profesora en la UCLM. Investigadora en videojuegos, arte, historia y educación. Integrante de @antifaeduca
Lecturer at the UCLM. Video game, Art, History and Education Scholar. Memeber of @antifaeduca
#gamestudies
Appalachian academic. Medievalist. Mom. Maker-in-training. Vikings/Women/Labor/ Identity. Chaotic good gnomish bard. She/her. Per uni attorneys: "'opinions expressed here are my own' so it is clear" I am "not representing an official university position.
Historian of modern Germany. Colonialism. Religion. Games. Holocaust educator. Determined to save history. He/him/his. All views my own.
Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir.
Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture
Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN.
Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Solo dev, working on city builder Pompeii: The Legacy. Programmer and game designer since 1999. Co-founder of LGM Games & Overseer Games, owner of Siscia Games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/Pompeii_The_Legacy/?utm_source=bs&utm_campaign=h2
1st year Classics PhD student studying Narrative in Petitions from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Generally interested in all things related to narratives and stories and novels
Avid Mobile Game Player (currently fixated with Path to Nowhere & Reverse 1999)
Senior lecturer in war studies at Deakin University, working on the PME command and staff course in Canberra. 🇨🇦 in 🇦🇺, not going back.
Military historian turned war studier turned wargame designer. Also a “pretty good but don’t quit your day job” artist.
Early #medieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
#ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG
he/him
The official Bluesky account for The Center for the History of Video Games, Technology, and Critical Play at CSU, Long Beach (criticalplay.org) also @criticalplayorg@mstdn.social
Stevan Anastasoff, former White Dwarf writer, and video game designer: Warhammer Online, For Honor, Assassin's Creed, and many more. Now working on Tales from the Mabinogion, a game about Welsh mythology using Welsh as its principal language.
Ancient History @unitrier.bsky.social | 🇱🇺 in 🇩🇪 | 🐈🐈 | Roman & Hellenistic monarchies & courts | late antiquity | Roman republic | 🏛🏺& video games | memes | not a classicist | https://bitly.cx/PLDno
A gaming and archaeological conference to share #archaeogaming based research and gameplay with a broader, virtual audience worldwide.
The highly anticipated #ArGaCon will return in 2025!
https://archaeogameco.weebly.com/
Yaps about history, memory, politics, digital media, film/television, the works
🇺🇸 in 🇨🇿
Doctoral researcher in media studies | MA Slavic Studies | MGPS Global Governance and International Law
Historian & Political Scientist / SNF Sinergia project lead #CH_Ludens / SNF Ambizione lead #HorrorGamePolitics / History / Games / Politics / History of Ideas / Opinion must not always reflect object. scient. analysis / AKGWDS
spielkult.hypotheses.org
Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist.
she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
PhDs in history and theology of Jihad in Islam/Xnty in Syriac and Arabic and other topic, ex-academics, historical wargame designer and retiree. Our identities concealed due to threats and doxxing.
Historian, University of Durham. (Sometime Classicist/baroque string-player.) Author of 'Sparta's German Children' and 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools'. Researching: Fascism/Nazism; far-right appropriations of the ancient past; HGS: https://helenroche.com
Run shops, make items, haggle for profit, and explore ancient cities from South West India to Rome.
Grab it on itch and Steam!
Privat hier. Historian (early modern period). Knowledge, diplomacy, politics/conflict and war, gender, and history represented in digital games. PhD project: social construction of diplomatic knowledge (A. de Wicquefort)
PhD Student at UArk in "what if history, but video game?" (Cultural Studies, but predominantly DH and Archaeology)
MA DH
Melodic Death Metal Leftist #TesticularCancerSurvivor they/them
C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist.
Medieval literature studies, Digital Humanities, Game Studies - Work and Research in the field of critical AI engineering and transmediality (he/him)
Bayesian librarian & attribution historian
Boolean engineering since 1995
P&RP my own : about citation, information literacy & tabletop role-playing games
«Citez-vous les uns les autres»
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Assistant Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out now with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
(she/her)
amateur & professional bookworm
NyashaJunior.com
historian of christianity | scholar of magic & heresy | critic of empires | neurospicy | unabashedly hopeful and generally sincere | author of magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX) | she/her
“imagine a classics professor” – The New Yorker
Associate prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her.
resdifficiles.com
opietasanimi.com
Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him.
“Read some fucking apocrypha.”
https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
"A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
New Testament, early Christian apocrypha, embodiment. Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UK.
Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Aršāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (2024). Guggenheim Fellow.
Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
