Directors & Staff
Michele Tracy Berger, PhD
DirectorBaker-Nord Center for the HumanitiesCollege of Arts and SciencesProfessorDepartment of Religious StudiesCollege of Arts and SciencesEmail: michele.berger@case.edu
Jamie Hickner, PhD
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programming and InitiativesBaker-Nord Center for the HumanitiesCollege of Arts and SciencesAnisfield-Wolf Teaching FellowDepartment of EnglishCollege of Arts and SciencesEmail: jamie.hickner@case.edu
Maggie Kaminski
Administrative DirectorBaker-Nord Center for the HumanitiesCollege of Arts and SciencesEmail: maggie.kaminski@case.edu
Hayley Verdi, Baker-Nord Fellow, Department of English
Malachi Levy, Baker-Nord Student Assistant, English Major and Social Justice Minor
Past Directors
Daniel Goldmark, Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives and International Affairs, Interim Director, 2021-2023
Peter Knox, Director, 2014-2021
John Orlock, Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities, Interim Director, 2010-2014
Brian Clites, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Director, 2017-2023
Timothy Wutrich, Senior Instructor of Classics, Associate Director, 2013-2015
Susanne Vees-Gulani, Section Head, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Associate Director, 2012-2013 & 2015-2018
William Deal, Severance Professor Emeritus in the History of Religion; Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, Associate Director, 2012-2015
Mary E. Davis, Associate Director, 2009-2012
Anne Helmreich, Senior Programming Officer, The Getty Foundation Director, 2007-2010, Associate Director, 2004-2007.
Timothy Beal, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, CWRU Director, 2004-2007, Associate Director, 2002-2004
Tom Bishop, The University of Auckland, Founding Director, 1996-2004.
Marie Lathers, Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French, CWRU Associate Director.
Catherine Scallen, Associate Professor of Art History, CWRU Associate Director.
Angela Wollacott, The Macquarie University, Sydney Associate Director.