Charles L. Cohen
Director, Professor of History and Religious Studies
4115 Mosse Humanities Building
clcohen@wisc.edu | (608)
263-1956
Office Hours: Wednesday, noon - 1pm
Charles L. Cohen is Professor of History and Religious Studies. A specialist
in colonial British North America and early American religious history,
he received the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society for American Historians
for his work on the psychology of Puritan religious experience. He has won
the Emil Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award and a Phi Beta Kappa Teaching
Award from UW-Madison. Prior to becoming LISAR's founding director, he ran
UW-Madison's Religious Studies Program from 1997-2005. He and Paul Boyer
edited and contributed to Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern
America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008). He is also
working on Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State, with Leonard
Kaplan, which is under contract to Lexington Press, and Religious Pluralism
in Modern America, with Ronald Numbers.
See Professor Cohen's remarks on religious diversity at UW-Madison
Ulrich Rosenhagen
Assistant Director; Lecturer, Religious Studies
5223 Mosse Humanities Building
rosenhagen@wisc.edu | (608) 890-1665
Ulrich Rosenhagen is an ordained pastor, originally in the Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) and now in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, which has officially called him to his position at LISAR. He holds two theological degrees from the EKKW and is completing his Ph.D. at the University of Halle. He was a researcher at the Technical University of Dresden, has held a research fellowship at Boston University, and has published papers in several German books and journals. Before joining LISAR, he served as Associate Pastor at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Coral Gables, Florida, and as a pastor in Marburg and Hanau, Germany. At UW-Madison he is also a lecturer in Religious Studies and History, offering courses in the history of religion of modern Europe.
Ovamir
Anjum
Senior Fellow
oganjum@wisc.edu
Ovamir Anjum is a dissertator in Islamic Intellectual history in the Department of History. His work focuses on the history of reason in theology, politics and law in classical and medieval Islam, with comparative emphasis on similar debates in Western theology, law and philosophy. His interests extend to legal theory and anthropology, and his forthcoming articles include "Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors" and "Putting Islam Back into the Equation: Islam as a Discursive World System (Political Economy of World Systems)," both in press. He has long been involved in speaking to and organizing local Muslim communities in the US and encouraging dialogue among the various communities of faith.
Karen
Turino
Department Administrator
5222 Mosse Humanities Building
turino@wisc.edu | (608) 263-1821
Office Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10 AM - 3 PM
Karen Turino served as a teacher with special training in communication disorders before becoming office manager at Madison Chiropractic, where she still works in addition to administering LISAR. Between 1994-97 she was general coordinator for My Dream Park in Monona, Wisconsin, overseeing the fund-raising and construction of major public playground facility. She currently serves as coordinator of the annual Monona Community Festival Art Fair in the Park and sits on the city’s Park and Recreation Board.
