Charles L. Cohen
Director, Professor of History and Religious Studies
4115 Mosse Humanities Building
clcohen@wisc.edu | (608)
263-1956
Office Hours: by appointment
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 and is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 2008-11. 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. He is co-editor of and a contributor to both Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2010; with Leonard V. Kaplan), and Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008; with Paul S. Boyer). He is also working on Religious Pluralism in Modern America, with Ronald Numbers, which is contracted to Oxford University Press.
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 in America, which has officially called him to his position at LISAR. He holds two theological degrees from the EKKW and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation titled: “Fratricide, Liberty, Supreme Judge: Religious Communication and Public Theology in the Epoch of the American Revolution.” 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.
Brad Klingele
Program Manager
5222 Mosse Humanities Building
bklingele@gmail.com | (608) 263-1821
Brad Klingele holds an M.A. in theology from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the past sixteen years, he has worked in Catholic parish and diocesan ministry, having served as a young adult ministry coordinator for several parishes, as director of Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Madison, and as a campus ministry consultant in Wisconsin, Florida, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. In addition to his work at LISAR, Brad is Director of Young Adult Ministry at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, where he provides leadership training and development for graduate students and young professionals.
Rohany Nayan
Graduate Fellow
5222 Mosse Humanities Building
nayan@wisc.edu | (608) 263-1821
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 four 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. Her work has been recognized by two Distinguished Classified Staff Awards, both given in 2010: one for the College of Letters & Science, and the second for the entire University. 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.
Ariana Horn
Project Assistant
aphorn@wisc.edu
Ariana Horn is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focus is late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American religious history especially unionized Catholic lay public school teachers in Chicago. She is also interested in religious pluralism, the history of interfaith dialogue, and issues of gender in religion
