upcoming and Recent Lectures:

• “This is Not Our Notion of Christian Liberty: Baptist Formations in a Settler State.” American Society of Church History. San Francisco, California, January 4-7, 2024.

• “Understanding Religious Liberty in a Diverse Nation.” In conjunction with the exhibit, “Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West.” New-York Historical Society, New York. October 6, 2023. https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/understanding-religious-liberty-in-a-diverse-nation?date=2023-10-06

• “‘He Has Not Instructed Them by Books:’ Divine Authority on Kiikapoi Lands.” Invited Paper. Conference, “‘By the Mouth of His Holy Prophets:’ Sacred Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America.” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. May 26, 2023.

• Religion and U.S. Empire. Book panel and discussion with Tisa Wenger and Sylvester Johnson. Center for the Humanities, Tufts University. March 15, 2023.

• Roundtable on Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories, edited by Tisa Wenger and Sylvester Johnson. American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2022.

• Chair and Comment, “The Politics of Religious Pluralism.” American Political History Conference: The Past, Present, and Future of American Democracy. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. June 10, 2022. https://www.c-span.org/video/?520846-5/religious-pluralism-united-states.

• “Religious Freedom in the Age of Pandemic.” Panelist. 7th Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture. Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. June 4, 2022.

• “How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion.” Invited Lecture. Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom, George Washington University. Online, April 15, 2021.

• “Settler Colonialism and American Religion.” Panel, American Historical Association. Online. January 6, 2021. https://bit.ly/AHA21ColonialReligion.

Blogs and podcasts

• Q&A with Tisa Wenger, Guest editor of the Pacific Historical Review Special Issue, “Religion in the Nineteenth-century American West.” https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/63694/qa-with-tisa-wenger-guest-editor-of-the-pacific-historical-review-special-issue-religion-in-the-nineteenth-century-american-west/

• “Religion and U.S. Empire,” with Sylvester Johnson. New Books Network Podcast. March 15, 2023. https://newbooksnetwork.com/religion-and-us-empire.

• “For What Purposes Has Religious Freedom Been Invoked?” Religion in the American Experience Podcast, National Museum of American Religion. December 28, 2020, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-what-purposes-has-religious-freedom-been-invoked/id1536446052?i=1000503696610. 

• Religious Studies Project Podcast, “How Religious Freedom Makes Religion,” September 30, 2019.

• From the Desk of Kurt Manwaring, “10 Questions with Tisa Wenger,” September 3, 2019.

• BYU Maxwell Institute Podcast, “The contested history of religious freedom, with Tisa Wenger,” April 16, 2019.

• Religion in American History Blog, “Response to Review Forum on Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal,” March 4, 2018.

• Yale DIvinity School, The Quadcast, “Are There Limits to Religious Freedom? An Interview with Yale Divinity School Professor Tisa Wenger,” January 30, 2018.

• Political Theology Network, “Five Books I Can’t Do Without,” in Books We Love, Part 3,” curator Roberto Sirvent, August 15, 2017.

• Cosmologics Magazine, “Tisa Wenger: Contesting Religious Freedom,” interview by Lewis West, Spring 2017.

  popular writings and essays

• “Anti-Abortion Laws are an Attack on Religious Freedom,” co-authored with Samira Mehta, 360info.org, July 11, 2022.

• “Religious Freedom After Trump,” Berkley Forum, Georgetown University, December 7, 2020.

• “Why Religious Freedom Won’t Protect Native American Sacred Lands,” Berkley Forum, Georgetown University, February 20, 2018.

• “How Conservative Christians Co-Opted the Rhetoric of Religious Freedom,” Zócalo Public Square, January 23, 2018.

• “Discrimination in the Name of Religion? Slaveholders and Segregationists Did It Too,” Made By History, Washington Post, December 5, 2017.

• “Americans Have Never Agreed on What Religious Freedom Means,” Christian Century, October 16. 2017.

• “The Complexities of Racial and Religious Identities,” African American Intellectual History Society Blog, September 29, 2017.

• “American Religious Freedom: Pride and Prejudice,” Reflections, Yale Divinity School, Spring 2013.