Charles L. Cohen came to UW-Madison in 1984, having taken his BA at Yale and his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and writes about colonial British North America and American religious history. His scholarship has been recognized by, among other awards, the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for his work on the psychology of Puritan religious experience, terms on the councils of both the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and the American Society for Church History, and his appointment as Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians. He serves on the editorial board of Religion and American Culture.
