Contact Information
Office: 106 Powers Hall
Phone: (989) 774-3374
Email: hall1td@cmich.edu
Spotlight on Faculty Research
Colonial America in the Atlantic World (2003) (with T.H. Breen).
Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World (1994).
Timothy D. Hall
Timothy D. Hall is Chair of the Department of History and Professor of Early American History and History Education. He received his Ph.D. in Colonial and Revolutionary American History in 1991, completing his dissertation under the direction of T.H. Breen. Prior to coming to CMU in 1993, he held appointments as Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University.
Research and Teaching Interests
Professor Hall has published in the history of the British Atlantic World and American Religious History and maintains ongoing research interests in both areas. In addition, he works in the field of history education and currently co-directs a Teaching American History grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Recent Publications
“Closing the Gap between Professors and Teachers: 'Uncoverage' as a Model of Professional Development for History Teachers,” The History Teacher Spring, 2007 (with Renay Scott).
"The Hermeneutics of Revival: The Christian History in Its Transatlantic Context," in Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America, ed. Mark Kamrath and Sharon Harris, University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
Colonial America in an Atlantic World: A Story of Creative Adaptation. Co-author with T. H. Breen. Longman, 2004.
"Conversion and Community in Crisis: Assurance, Community and Individualism in the Antinomian Crisis, 1636-1638," in Puritanism and Its Discontents, ed. Laura Lunger Knoppers. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003.