TIFFANY HALE, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
Barnard College of Columbia University
Photo by Ryan Red Corn
About Me
I am a scholar of nineteenth century US and Native American religious traditions. I teach courses on religion in North America, global Indigenous histories, Afro-Indigenous experiences, and the US Civil War. My book, titled Fugitive Religion: The Ghost Dance and Indigenous Resistance After the US Civil War, will be released in June 2026 with Yale University Press.
Academic Appointments
Society Fellow
Society for the Humanities
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
2025 - 2026
2018 - present
Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
Barnard College, Columbia University
New York, NY
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
2017 December
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of History
Yale University
2015 December
Master of Arts
Department of History
Yale University
2012 June
Master of Arts
Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
2008 June
Bachelor of Arts
Department of History
Highest Honors/With Distinction/Phi Beta Kappa
University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact
Please note that I am on leave for research this year and may be delayed in responding