David D. Hall

David D. Hall is the Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School. He has been affiliated with HDS since 1989, transitioning to his current title in 2008. His scholarship focuses on religion and society in seventeenth-century New England and England.

• Research areas include Puritanism, early American religious history, and 'lived religion.'
• Editor of key documentary collections such as The Antinomian Controversy of 1636–1638 and Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England.
• Authored influential books like Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment and A Reforming People (2011).

His work spans historical analysis of religious movements, cultural practices, and transatlantic intellectual exchanges. Currently, he is writing a general history of Puritanism across England, Scotland, and New England (c.1550–1700) for Princeton University Press.