Mac McGoldrick

Programs Manager

Research Anthropologist

Mac.McGoldrick@colostate.edu

970/ 491-4793 970/ 217-2095

Research Interests

Mac is working on strengthening the social science component of our projects, combining the expertise of the CSU research and design teams with methods and tools for an understanding of the social and cultural dynamics of communities affected by new technologies. On a project level, researchers must understand and build on the social organization of communities in larger social systems for use in identifying and solving energy and health problems, as well as recognize and address differences in culturally diverse perceptions, categories, linguistic terms, values and behaviors. Mac is also involved with the Global Innovation Center efforts to refine methods and tools of applied anthropology, to include: observation techniques, qualitative and survey interviews, systematic data collection techniques for accessing core values or areas of cultural consensus, ways of identifying and interpreting social networks and a variety of participatory cultural, social and environmental assessment techniques designed to improve intersect oral understanding of demographic composition, social/political dynamics, cultural and other forms of diversity, and capacity for planning and development.

Since 2003, Mac has been an Adjunct member of the Philosophy / Religious Studies Department at CSU, where he teaches a variety of courses on Asian religions which explore the notion that spirituality is a vital resource, sustaining people in the hard work of personal and social change, and, on regular occasions, inspires them to imagine possibilities that exceed expectations.

Bio
Mac has worked at CSU since Fall 2002, and at the Engines & Energy Conversion Laboratory since Fall 2006.  He earned an MA from Cornell University in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Buddhist Studies.  In addition to his role at the Lab, Mac is Adjunct Instructor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, where he has taught a variety of courses on Asian religions.  He hails from the East Coast, but since moving to Colorado in 1999 has adopted it has his home. Mac's wife Rebecca is an Instructor in the CSU English Department.  He spends his winters cheering for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Projects

As Programs Manager, Mac is responsible for management of the EECL facilities and human resources, and works very closely with all of the companies and projects at the Lab: Envirofit, Solix, and Spirae.