Title / Role
Founder and Lead Consultant
Subject(s) I Teach or Learning Interest Area
History
Philosophy
Political Science
Curriculum and Instruction
Global Education
Personal Interests and Passions
I have worked in education for over twenty years as a teacher and administrator. Having authored several popular books and received numerous awards over the years, I am very passionate about providing professional support to educators and administrators in matters of religious literacy, freedom, and diversity.
Personal Website / ePortfolio / Personal Web Presence (PWP)
https://religion-matters.com/
More About Me
Tim Hall, PhD is a Senior Fellow of the Religious Freedom Institute and founder and lead consultant of Religion Matters. He is the author of several textbook supplements, curriculums, standards, and several popular history texts including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World History (Penguin, 2nd edn 2012) and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Middle Ages (Penguin, 2009). He was the course administrator of the MOOC on Kierkegaard at Coursera entitled “Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity.” Some of his recent research focuses on the philosophy of Kierkegaard and non‐cognitive education which was published in a shorter form in Wiley-Blackwell’s Companion to Kierkegaard and religious literacy and diversity in education which is in development.
As an educator, Dr. Hall has taught AP World History, AP European History, AP Psychology, and Medieval Studies. He has received numerous awards, including two schoolteacher studentships to Oxford University for curriculum development and research fellowships to the Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Dr. Hall has also collaborated with the College of William and Mary in Virginia in the development of curriculum materials for the teaching of the principle of separation of church and state in American history as an extension to a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar in which he participated.