Eric Carlsson

Contact: ecarlsson@slbrownfoundation.org

Areas of expertise: European intellectual and religious history in the early modern era; history of Christianity; history of theology and biblical scholarship

Bio

Eric Carlsson is Senior Advisor for The Lumen Center, Teaching Associate in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Director of the Upper House Fellows Program.

Dr. Carlsson is a historian of early modern Europe, with a research focus on the intersection of religion and Enlightenment thought, c. 1650-1800. At UW–Madison, he teaches a wide range of courses on thought and religion in early modern Europe, the Enlightenment, and the history of Christianity. He has published articles on the history of Protestant theology in Germany in the eighteenth century and is currently writing a book on the seminal theologian and biblical scholar Johann Salomo Semler and the creation of Protestant “liberal theology” in the context of the German Enlightenment’s debates over the nature and place of religion in modern society.

 

Experience

  • Teaching Associate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2010-present

  • Director, Upper House Fellows Program, 2020-present

  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, 2008

  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Edgewood College, 2007

 

Education

  • Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • M.A, History, University of Wisconsin–Madison

  • M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

  • B.A., History, University of Michigan

 

Selected Honors/Awards

  • Fellowship for Enlightenment Studies, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2023

  • Excellence in Teaching and Student Engagement Award, Department of History, UW–Madison, 2023

  • Fellow of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Teaching Academy, 2020-present

  • Distinguished Honors Faculty Award, College of Letters & Science, UW–Madison, 2016

  • University Housing Honored Instructor, UW–Madison, 2011, 2016