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Tisa Wenger
Born1969 (age 55–56)
OccupationHistorian
SpouseRod Groff
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2021)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisSavage debauchery or sacred communion? Religion and the primitive in the Pueblo dance controversy (2002)
Doctoral advisorLeigh E. Schmidt
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineHistory 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.

Biography

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Tisa Joy Wenger[1] was born in 1969[2] to Christine and Harold Wenger,[3] Mennonite missionaries who operated throughout Africa.[4] She got her BA (1991) in English at Eastern Mennonite University,[5] where she also made national headlines for introducing Virginia state legislator J. Samuel Glasscock at the college's Amnesty International-funded anti-death penalty forum.[6] As a graduate student, she obtained her MA (1997) in Women's Studies in Religion at Claremont Graduate University, before going to Princeton University Graduate School to get a second MA (1999) and her PhD (2002) in Religion;[5] her doctoral dissertation Savage debauchery or sacred communion? Religion and the primitive in the Pueblo dance controversy was advised by Leigh E. Schmidt.[7]

Wenger originally worked as a 2002–2003 Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellow at Southern Methodist University's William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies[8] and as acting associate director of the Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion (2003–2004).[5] In 2004, she became assistant professor at the Arizona State University Department of Religious Studies.[5] She moved to Yale Divinity School in 2009 and was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2022.[5]

Wenger's academic research is centered on the history of religion in the United States.[9] She is the author of We Have a Religion (2009) and Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (2017),[10][11] as well as co-editor of the volume Religion and U.S. Empire: Critical New Histories (2022).[12] She and Laura R. Olson are the editors of University Press of Kansas' series Studies in US Religion, Politics, and Law,[13] and she was the guest editor of an issue of Pacific Historical Review, "Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West".[14] In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Religion.[15]

Wenger has three children with her husband Rod Groff.[16] Originally baptized into her parents' faith as a teenager, she and her family had switched to Unitarian Universalism by 2019.[4]

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  1. ^ "Tisa Joy Wenger *02". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  2. ^ Wenger 2009, p. iv.
  3. ^ Wenger 2009, p. xx.
  4. ^ a b Wenger, Tisa (September 3, 2019). "Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal with Tisa Wenger". From The Desk (Interview). Interviewed by Kurt Manwaring. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e Wenger, Tisa J. "TISA J. WENGER" (DOC). Yale Divinity School. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  6. ^ "Forum Examines Death Penalty". Mennonite Weekly Review. April 12, 1990. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Wenger, Tisa Joy (2002). Savage debauchery or sacred communion? Religion and the primitive in the Pueblo dance controversy (PhD thesis). Princeton University. OCLC 56936536. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
  8. ^ "Past Fellows". Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  9. ^ "Tisa Wenger". Yale Divinity School. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  10. ^ "We Have a Religion | Tisa Wenger". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  11. ^ "Religious Freedom | Tisa Wenger". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  12. ^ "Religion and US Empire". NYU Press. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  13. ^ "Studies in US Religion, Politics, and Law". University Press of Kansas. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  14. ^ "Volume 92 Issue 3 | Pacific Historical Review". University of California Press. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  15. ^ "Tisa Wenger". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  16. ^ "About Me". Tisa Wenger. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
  17. ^ Bernand, Carmen (2011). "We Have a Religion. The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 56 (156): 290–292. ISSN 0335-5985.
  18. ^ Birchfield, Donald L. (2010). "We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". Journal of Church and State. 52 (1): 174–175. ISSN 0021-969X.
  19. ^ Ellis, Clyde (August 1, 2010). "Review: We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom, by Tisa Wenger". Pacific Historical Review. 79 (3): 458–459. doi:10.1525/phr.2010.79.3.458. ISSN 0030-8684.
  20. ^ Ferguson, T. J. (November 1, 2010). "We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". Western Historical Quarterly. 41 (4): 499–500. doi:10.2307/westhistquar.41.4.499. ISSN 0043-3810.
  21. ^ Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna (2009). "We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". Journal of Law and Religion. 25 (2): 573–578. ISSN 0748-0814.
  22. ^ Gulliford, Andrew (2010). "We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". The American Historical Review. 115 (2): 558–559. ISSN 0002-8762.
  23. ^ Hieb, Louis A. (2010). "WE HAVE A RELIGION: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". The Journal of Arizona History. 51 (4): 380–381. ISSN 0021-9053.
  24. ^ Johnson, Greg (2011). "We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". History of Religions. 50 (4): 420–423. doi:10.1086/658130. ISSN 0018-2710.
  25. ^ Meyer, Carter Jones (2010). "We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom". The Journal of American History. 96 (4): 1219–1220. ISSN 0021-8723.
  26. ^ Curtis, Finbarr (2019). "Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal". Journal of Social History. 53 (1): 289–291. ISSN 1527-1897 – via Project Muse.
  27. ^ Gordon, Sarah Barringer (2019). "Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal". Journal of American Studies. 53 (2): 582–583. doi:10.1017/S0021875819000252. ISSN 0021-8758.
  28. ^ Green, Steven K. (2018). "Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal". Church History. 87 (2): 632–634. ISSN 0009-6407.
  29. ^ Kock, Wouter (2020). "Review: Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal" (PDF). Junctions. 5 (1): 131–134.
  30. ^ Richardson, James T. (2019). "Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal by Tisa Wenger". Nova Religio. 22 (3): 123–124. ISSN 1541-8480 – via Project Muse.
  31. ^ Sutton, Matthew Avery (November 1, 2018). "Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal by Tisa Wenger". Pacific Historical Review. 87 (4): 715–716. doi:10.1525/phr.2018.87.4.715. ISSN 0030-8684.
  32. ^ Calacday, Jethro (2024). "Review of Wenger, Tisa; Johnson, Sylvester A., eds., Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories". H-Net Reviews. H-Diplo, H-Review. Retrieved December 28, 2024.
  33. ^ Lamak, Kefas (November 1, 2024). "Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories". Studies in World Christianity. 30 (3): 403–404. doi:10.3366/swc.2024.0488. ISSN 1354-9901.
  34. ^ Preston, Andrew (January 1, 2024). "Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories. Edtied by Tisa Wenger and Sylvester A. Johnson". Journal of Church and State. 66 (1): 68–69. doi:10.1093/jcs/csad089. ISSN 0021-969X.
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