He received his MA from the Pennsylvania State University in 1972 and has completed his PhD at the London School of Economics in 1976.
He was an Invited Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala, Sweden, during the 1999-2000 academic year, Visiting Research Professor (1999-2002) at Queen's University in Belfast, and the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford in 2003.
He has been an Honorary Professor of Sociology and Politics at the University of Copenhagen since 2001.
In 2012, Hall was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
[2] An edited volume leveraging his theories of nationalism, civility, power, and states was published in 2019 (States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives, edited by Francesco Duina.