
TIFFANY M. HALE
Assistant Professor
Department of Religion
Barnard College of Columbia University

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).
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
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