Tisa Wenger

Tisa Wenger is Professor of American Religious History at Yale Divinity School and Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the co-editor with Sylvester Johnson of Religion and U.S. Empire: Critical New Histories (NYU Press, 2022), and author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion, (University of North Carolina Press, 2026).

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