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Anne Helmreich (Director)
Anne Helmreich, Associate Professor, is a specialist in nineteenth-century European art with an emphasis in the art, architecture, and landscape design of Great Britain. She has taught period courses and seminars in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art as well as courses on issues of gender and sexuality, museum studies, and the history of photography. Her research interests include the relationship between art and national identity, representations of women, careers of women artists, the development of the art market, landscape and nature, and historic painting techniques.
Before coming to Case Western Reserve University, she taught at Texas Christian University. She has assisted with exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Her recent book, The English Garden and National Identity, the Competing Styles of Garden Design, 1870-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), received the Historians of British Art Prize for Best Book on a post-1800 topic. She has also been recognized for her teaching; for example, she was named Mortar Board Preferred Professor in 2000. Her research has been supported with fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre, the Huntington Library, the Graham Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks, and the American Philosophical Society.
Mary Davis (Associate Director)
Mary Davis specializes in the cultural criticism of music, and her research focuses on the relationship of music to fashion. Her book Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism, published in 2006 by the University of California Press, was short-listed for the Costume Society of America's Millia Davenport Publication Award. She is also the author of the biography Erik Satie, published in the Critical Lives series at London-based Reaktion Books, and is editor of the forthcoming volume Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers's America, which will be issued by Rounder Books in 2008.
Laura Henghold (Associate Director)
Laura Hengehold received her Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago in 2000. She teaches and researches on political philosophy and feminist philosophy, using perspectives influenced by Continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. Many of her essays explore the relationship between language and the lived experience of embodiment. She is especially intrigued by the way in which political conflict over the right to speak in different situations shapes women's experience of their own bodies as active forces or passive obstacles to joy.
In addition to her role as Associate Director at the Baker-Nord Center, Dr. Henghold also serves as Director of the French and Francophone Studies Interdisciplinary Program. She is a contributing member to the Women and Gender Studies Program and serves on their Advisory Committee.
Maggie Kaminski (Director of External Affairs)
Maggie Kaminski is an alumna, having received her master of non-profit organizations degree at CWRU in 1995. She has worked in various capacities at CWRU, including over ten years of service in the School of Medicine's development office where she was director of alumni affairs and friends programs, director of leadership programs, and a consultant in matters related to the capital campaign for the Cleveland Health Sciences Library as well as the Amici Medicinae (Friends of Medicine) program. She has been with the Baker-Nord Center since March 2007.
Past Directors
Timothy Beal
Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, CWRUDirector, 2004-2007
Associate Director, 2002-2004.
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Tom Bishop
The University of AucklandFounding Director, 1996-2004.
Marie Lathers
Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French, CWRUAssociate Director.
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Catherine Scallen
Associate Pofessor of Art History, CWRUAssociate Director.
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Angela Wollacott
The Macquarie University, SydneyAssociate Director.