Jonathan Berger
Co-Director, Arts Initiative, Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts
The Billie Bennett Achilles Professor in Performance in the Department of Music
Jonathan Berger is the Billie Bennett Achilles Professor of Music at Stanford University, William R. and Gretchen B. Kimball University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and the Arts Initiative. Berger has composed symphonic works, three concerti, works for all varieties of chamber ensemble, vocal, choral and electroacoustic works. Among his awards and commissions are three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, prizes from ASCAP, commissions from WDR, and prizes from the Bourges Festival. His works are available on Sony, Neuma, CRI and Harmonia Mundi labels. Berger's recent recording, Miracles and Mud was recently released by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and violinist Livia Sohn under the Naxos label's American Masters series. The recording has received critical acclaim. In addition to composing Berger is an active researcher with over sixty publications in a wide range of fields relating to music, science and technology.
Bryan J. Wolf
Co-Director, Arts Initiative, Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts
Jeanette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American Art and Art Culture
Bryan J. Wolf is the Jeanette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American Art and Culture, and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and the Arts Initiative. Wolf has written books on nineteenth-century American art as well as Vermeer and early modern culture. He is the co-author most recently of American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity (Prentice Hall, 2007). During the 2005-2006 academic year, he served as a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center while working on a new book, The Dream of Transparency. Wolf´s work focuses on ways of seeing from the seventeenth century to the present, the intersection of painting and literature, and the fate of Enlightenment culture in the modern world.
Gerhard Casper
Chair of the Arts Initiative Executive Committee
President Emeritus
Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus of Stanford University. He also is the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education and holds appointments as Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford. Mr. Casper studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, where, in 1961, he earned his first law degree. He went to Yale Law School in 1961, obtaining his Master of Law degree a year later. He then returned to Freiburg, where he received his Doctorate in 1964. That same year, Mr. Casper emigrated to the United States, spending two years as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School (and, one year later, also the Political Science Department), and between 1979 and 1987 served as Dean of the Law School. He has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence. From 1977-91, he was an editor of The Supreme Court Review. His most recent book is Separating Power: Essays on the Founding Period (Harvard University Press, 1997). In 1989, Mr. Casper became Provost of the University of Chicago, a post he held until he accepted the presidency of Stanford University in 1992. Mr. Casper is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Order Pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts. During the fall of 2006, he was the Kluge Scholar for American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress.
Portrait by Anneliese Hermes.
Kären Nagy
Assistant Vice President for the Arts
Kären Nagy assumed the newly-created role of Assistant Vice President for the Arts in late 2007, charged with overseeing the planning and implementation of the Arts Initiative at Stanford. She served as Executive Dean in the School of Humanities & Sciences from 2001 through early 2008. Kären came to Stanford in 1986 to head the Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound. In 1990, she became Director of Meyer Library and Research Branch Libraries, in 1992, Director of Academic Information services for the Libraries, and in 1994, was named Deputy University Librarian. She played a key role in planning and internal project management for the renovation of the Bing Wing of Green Library, which opened in the Fall of 1999 after a ten-year closure following the Loma Prieta Earthquake. Kären served as a part-time Lecturer in the Music Department, teaching Music Bibliography to incoming graduate students from 1987 until 2002. Additionally, she has spoken and published in the area of managing change in the academic environment. Kären is currently serving a term as Chair of Stanford's University Management Group and she is also on the Provost's Budget Advisory Group.
Barbara Frerichs
Director of Development, Stanford Arts Initiative
Barbara Frerichs began leading fund raising for the Arts Initiative in the fall of 2007 after serving six years as a regional gift officer in Stanford’s Office of Development. Barbara works closely with key volunteers, faculty leaders and university officials while collaborating with development office colleagues to raise donations targeted for the arts. Prior to joining Stanford, Barbara served in leadership roles in the health care industry including marketing, business development and strategic planning. Barbara earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford and her MBA from UC Berkeley.
Arts Initiative Executive Committee
Gerhard Casper, Chair
President, Emeritus, Peter & Helen Bing Professor in Undergrad Education, Professor of Law, & Senior Fellow at FSI
Jonathan Berger
Billie Bennett Achilles Professor in Performance in the Department of Music and Co-Director, Stanford Arts Initiative
Jenny Bilfield (ex officio)
Executive Director, Stanford Lively Arts
Eavan Boland
Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities; Director, Creative Writing Program
Mona Duggan (ex officio)
Director of Development, Cantor Arts Center
Harry Elam
Senior Associate Vice Provost and Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities
Barbara Frerichs (ex officio)
Director of Development, Stanford Arts Initiative
Stephen Hinton
Senior Associate Dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Music
Robert Joss
Dean of the Graduate School of Business and the Philip H. Knight Professor
Roberta Katz (staff)
Associate Vice President for Strategic Planning
Donna Lawrence (ex officio)
Assistant Vice President for Development
Kären Nagy (ex officio)
Assistant Vice President for the Arts
Margaret Phelan
Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts and Chair, Department of Drama
Kristine Samuelson
Professor and Chair, Art and Art History
Bryan Wolf
Jeanette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American Art and Culture and Co-Director, Stanford Arts Initiative
