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 Heidelberg. 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.
Rohany Nayan
Graduate Fellow
nayan@wisc.edu
Rohany Nayan is a doctoral student in the Literacy Studies program in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests focus on immigrant families especially on Muslim families, literacy development of Muslim children in public schools and Islamic education in the United States. She is also interested in notions of identity among Muslim youth. For three years she was the principal at the local Islamic school – Madinah Academy of Madison. She is actively involved in organizing local Muslim communities in the United States and encouraging dialogue among the various communities of faith.
Karen
Turino
Administrator
5225 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 the 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.
Sari Judge
Communications Specialist
5222 Mosse Humanities Building
(608) 263-1821
Sari Judge comes to the Lubar Insitute with an extensive background in strategic communication. From 1998-2007 she served as a lecturer in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, teaching various courses including “Developing Creative Messages for the Media” and “Campaign Research and Strategy.” She also served as the school’s Undergraduate Advisor from 2001-2006, handling both academic and career advising for prospective and enrolled majors. Prior to moving to Madison, she held various positions of increasing responsibility in advertising agency account management at both the Chicago office of DDB Worldwide and the Mexico City office of Leo Burnett International. She is pleased that her personal interest in interfaith relations is finding a professional outlet with LISAR.
