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TIFFANY M. HALE

Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
Barnard College of Columbia University
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About Me

About Me

I am a scholar of nineteenth century United States history and Native American religious traditions. Broadly speaking, my work examines modernity and its themes through the prism of religion. I teach courses on religion and warfare, global Indigenous histories, and Afro-Indigenous epistemologies. I am the author of Fugitive Religion: The Ghost Dance and Indigenous Resistance After the US Civil War (Yale University Press, 2026).

Work Experience

Academic Appointments

2018 - present

Assistant Professor

Department of Religion

Barnard College, Columbia University

New York, NY

Society Fellow

Society for the Humanities

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

2025 - 2026

2017 - 2018

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, American Philosophical Society

Philadelphia, PA

2016 - 2017

Dissertation Research Fellow, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

New Haven, CT

2016

Short Term Research Fellow, Newberry Library

Chicago, IL

Education

Education

2017 

Doctor of Philosophy

Department of History

Yale University

2015 

Master of Philosophy

Department of History

Yale University

2012 

Master of Arts

Department of History

University of California, Santa Barbara

2008 

Bachelor of Arts

Department of History

Highest Honors/With Distinction/Phi Beta Kappa

University of California, Santa Barbara

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© 2026 by Tiffany Hale.

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