CIS People

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Director: Steve McKelvey, (MSCS)
Office: RMS 505, CIS office hrs in Tomson Hall 283 [Mon 2:30-3:30; Tues 2:30-4:30; Fri 2:30-4:00; or by appt]
Email: mckelvey@stolaf.edu
Phone: 507-786-3421
Program Coordinator: Susan Carlson
Office: Tomson Hall 283
Email: carlsons@stolaf.edu
Phone: 507-786-6707
Steve is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Grinnell College. He completed his Ph.D. at Brown University in operations research—more specifically, in the field of network equilibria. In addition to work in large-scale network equilibria, Steve is involved with the mathematical modeling of biological systems, primarily population levels of endangered species. Before coming to St. Olaf in 1985, he held summer positions with the Washington, D.C. headquarters of NASA and the Internal Revenue Service. He has also spent three summers working as an actuarial trainee. Between college and graduate school, Steve spent a year working with the Illinois Bureau of the Budget as a systems analyst. Steve was recently elected to the position of President of the Resource Modeling Association (RMA), an interdisciplinary, international professional organization using quantitative tools to better manage natural resources of all types. Steve’s leisure time is spent canoeing, hiking, skiing, folk dancing, and supporting progressive politics.

 

 Susan is a graduate of Carleton College, with a B.A. in English. She came to St. Olaf in 1987 with a background of experience in the St. Paul Public Library and at the West Side/West St. Paul Voice, a community newspaper, as well as in business settings. At St. Olaf she began as a staff member in the Rolvaag Library, then moved to the Dean of the College’s office and then the Paracollege before taking on her current position in the CIS in 1999, when the program began. In Northfield, she served on the board of directors of Prairie Creek Community School for several years, including as its chair; was a Girl Scout leader, Gold Award committee member, and volunteer trainer for the local GS council; and had other community involvement connected with her two children. Currently, she is active in the Northfield Arts Guild Theater, as director, actor, and costume designer, and has recently returned to the Theater Committee, the producing group for the theater’s annual season of comedy, drama, and musicals for all ages. She lives in Stanton Township, Goodhue County, where she serves as an election judge even in the unexciting elections.
Current Faculty Advisors Students Individual Majors
Brian Bjorklund (Theatre) Laura Beck ’14 Sound Design and Production
Laurel Carrington (History) Christophe Porot ’13 Intellectual History of Western Social Ethics
Chris Chiappari (Sociology and Anthropolgy) Molly McDermott ’13 Educational Anthropology
Jim Farrell (History, American Studies) Andi Gomoll ’13 Growing Up in America: A Study of American Identities
Rick Goedde (Management Studies) Christina Berget ’13 Human Resource Psychology
Mackenzie Wolter ’13 Corporate Management and Marketing
Joseph Mbele (English) Tara Reyelts ’14 African Culture and Colonialism
Eric McDonald (Education) Naomi Miessler ’13 Engaging Youth: Community, Education, & Service
John Saurer (Art and Art History) Ben Olsen ’13 Architecture and Design
Doug Schuurman (Religion) Gretchen Becker ’13 Science in Society: Bioethics
Bill Sonnega (Theatre, Media Studies) Sage Cichock ’13 The Mediation of Beauty in Culture
Charles Taliaferro (Philosophy) Eric Teachout ’13 Philosophy and Psychology of Ethics
Tom Williamson (Sociology and Anthropology) Moira Wood ’13 Biomedical Anthropology
Charles Wilson (Religion) Trevor Knapp ’13 Philosophy of Religion

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