Tisa Wenger

Tisa Wenger is Professor of American Religious History at Yale University, analyzing intersections of religion, race, and empire. Her scholarship examines religious freedom discourses in colonial and settler-colonial contexts.

Research interrogates:

• Indigenous struggles for religious sovereignty
• Imperial dimensions of religious liberty claims
• Race-making through religious categorization

Publications include award-winning studies on Pueblo Indian religious rights and genealogies of American religious freedom, with forthcoming work tracing settler colonialism's role in shaping American religion.

Honored with Guggenheim Fellowship and AAR Book Award, she co-edits 'Method and Theory in the Study of Religion' and leads Yale's initiative on religion in American public life.