Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities

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.

Upcoming public lectures by the Director-coming soon

The Associate Director

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.

Upcoming public lectures by the Associate Director-coming soon.

Timothy Beal, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, CWRU
Director, 2004-2007
Associate Director, 2002-2004.

Tom Bishop, formerly Department of English, CWRU; currently The University of Auckland
Founding Director, 1996-2004.

Marie Lathers, Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French
Associate Director.

Catherine Scallen, associate professor of Art History, CWRU
Associate Director.

Angela Wollacott, formerly Department of History, CWRU; currently The Macquarie University, Sydney
Associate Director.