Tim Hall, Ph.D

Social Studies Educator

Tim Hall, Ph.D., is Interim Principal at Vance County Early College and the K–12 Social Studies Instructional Coordinator for Vance County Schools. He is also an adjunct history instructor at

Piedmont Community College, founder of the website Religion Matters, and Past-President of the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies. He is the recipient of the National Council for the Social Studies Religious Literacy Award (2025–26), sponsored by the Kaur Foundation. Dr. Hall has authored textbook supplements, curricula, standards, and popular history texts, and his forthcoming book, Bringing Religious Literacy to the Classroom: Global Competence for K–12 Social Studies (Routledge Eye on Education, expected 2026), explores how educators can equip students with the tools to understand religion academically, constitutionally, and inclusively.

Additional Professional Information

As an educator, Dr. Hall has taught AP World History, AP European History, AP Psychology, AP US History, and numerous other social studies courses. He has received multiple 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 collaborated with the College of William and Mary in Virginia to develop 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. He recently participated in the Harvard Divinity School Religion and Public Life’s Religious Literacy Summer Institute for Educators during the summer of 2021 and NEH Summer Institute: Religious Worlds of New York during the summer of 2022.

Dr. Hall advocates for civic, digital, and religious literacy and global competence within the field of education. Dr. Hall is a member of the National Council for the Social Studies, American Academy of Religion, and the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies.