Tim Hall, Ph.D. is a K-12 Social Studies Instructional Specialist with Vance County Schools, founder of the website, Religion Matters, and President-Elect of the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies. He also serves as Vance County Coordinator for the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust and as a member of the Education Advisory Board of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. Tim has authored several textbook supplements, curriculums, standards, and popular history texts, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World History and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Middle Ages. As an educator, Tim has taught AP World History, AP European History, AP Psychology, AP US History, and numerous other social studies courses. Tim 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. He is a member of the National Council for the Social Studies, American Academy of Religion, and the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies.