Tisa Wenger | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse | Rod Groff |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Savage debauchery or sacred communion? Religion and the primitive in the Pueblo dance controversy (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leigh E. Schmidt |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | History of religion in the United States |
| Institutions | |
Tisa Joy Wenger (born 1969) is an American historian centered on religion in the United States. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of We Have a Religion (2009) and Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (2017) and co-editor of Religion and U.S. Empire: Critical New Histories (2022). She has worked as a professor at Arizona State University and Yale Divinity School.