Baker Scholar Program Advisors
In addition to the Baker Trustees, the Program is also advised and coordinated by two Georgetown College staff members:
Dr. Bernie Cook (C'90, G'91) is Assistant Dean in Georgetown College and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Georgetown University. He earned his PhD in Critical Studies in Film and Television from the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. Since 1998, he has created and taught film and media studies courses in the English Department, the American Studies Program, and the Program in Justice and Peace at Georgetown. From 2001 to 2005, Dr. Cook served as Associate Director of the John Carroll Scholars Program at Georgetown. Dr. Cook is editor of Thelma & Louise Live! (2007), in publication at the University of Texas Press, and has published articles on television news coverage of warfare and on violence in American fiction film. In 2001, he participated in the Documentary Film Institute at George Washington University, collaborating on a short documentary, Changing Room (2001), which has screened at film festivals in Washington, San Francisco, and Phoenix. In 2004 and 2005 he served on the Programming Advisory Committee for the SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival. He is currently collaborating with a Georgetown alumnus on a feature film script. He is married to Jennifer Drugay Cook (C'92, L'01), and they live in Alexandria, VA, with their children Lucy and Emmett.
