Governing & Advisory Board

Karl E. Johnson, Founding Director of Chesterton House, received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Cornell University. Johnson previously served as the Dan Tillemans Director of the Cornell Team and Leadership Center, a division of Cornell Outdoor Education.  Johnson has received several writing awards, including a 1995 Amy Award for writing in religion, and was recognized as a 1999 Academy of Leisure Sciences Future Scholar. His interests include human relations with the natural landscape, from wilderness to urban environs. Read more.  

Robert C. Fay is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Cornell University, where he has been a faculty member since 1962. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Bologna, an NSF Science Faculty Fellow at the University of East Anglia and the University of Sussex, and a NATO/Heineman Senior Fellow at Oxford University. His interests include the history of Christianity and its connections to science.

Steve Froehlich is Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in Ithaca, NY. In his prior position, he served as Executive Vice President of Reformed Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, Froehlich completed undergraduate studies in theatre, and graduate studies in theology and pastoral ministry. His interests include the intersection of Christianity and the arts, especially literature and film.

Linda Moskeland Fuchs does research on 3rd-century Christian sculpture, with a focus on resurrection themes. She has degrees from Wheaton College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, the University of Chicago and Cornell University. She is on the Community Advisory Board of Cornell’s Herbert L. Johnson Museum. A former art and French teacher, Linda has enjoyed hosting the Lansing Breakfast Club for high school students with the youngest of her now grown four children.

Hugh G. Gauch, Jr. is a Senior Research Specialist at Cornell University with expertise in statistical analysis of ecological and agricultural data. He has authored three books and is one of the most cited research scientists at Cornell. Gauch's book, Scientific Method in Practice (Cambridge Press, 2002) is an interdisciplinary treatment of the history, philosophy, and method of science. His interests include natural theology--a topic on which he read a paper at the Gifford conference in Aberdeen (2000). The paper was published in Philosophia Christi 4:45-88, and is available at http://www.ibri.org/.

James Keller '84 is a Senior Managing Director at Cantor, Fitzgerald responsible for structured credit products trading. A 1988 graduate of Columbia Business School, Keller previously worked for eight years at UBS and 12 years at Citibank. He is a board member of Sinergia, a micro-finance organization in Trujillo, Peru, and the Christian Missionary Society, which ministers among Reformed churches in Peru. He lives in Rye, NY with his wife and two children.

Kathleen Vogel is an assistant professor at Cornell University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Peace Studies Program. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty, Vogel worked as a William C. Foster Fellow in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction. Vogel has also spent time as a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies working on biosecurity and BW nonproliferation issues.

Christian Anible served as Graduate & Faculty Ministries Staff for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at Cornell University and Syracuse University until his death in 2007. He had served with IVCF since 1982 and came to Ithaca in 1999. He had a Masters degree in New Testament from Regent College and was a member of the Emerging Scholars Network. Christian, who was an avid lover of hiking and cross-country skiing, leaves behind his wife, Barbara, and three children. Best known for his leadership in worship for conferences of IVCF and the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies (IFACS), he was a passionate advocate for environmental stewardship and social justice.

Claire Bryant '09 is a Sociology and Inequality major originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She plans to go into international social work and has spent two summers during college working and living in a home for children in Paraná, Brazil. Claire was one of the founding editors of Translations magazine and is very involved in Cornell Christian Fellowship. Her other interests include politics, advocacy, hiking, biking, rock climbing, and conversations over coffee.

Stevie Hull '10 is a Classics major. She is currently writing her senior honors thesis on the literary uses of Scripture in the Latin letters of Paulinus of Nola, a 4th century senator turned bishop. She is President of Cornell's Undergraduate Classics Organization, Kai Ta Loipa, a member of the student advisory board of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, and a mentor in the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program. She also writes poetry and short fiction. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a PhD in Classics.

Dave Jones is Senior Pastor at Bethel Grove Bible Church in Ithaca, NY. Formerly Associate Pastor at West Church in Peabody, MA, he has degrees from Messiah College, Wheaton College Graduate School, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Jones also serves as Board President for International Health Services, a medical mission to Eastern Europe. His interests include biblical teaching and developing Christ-centered marriages.

Josh Pothen '07 was a Pre-med Computer Science major. His career interests lie in orthopedic surgery and computational modeling of the musculoskeletal system. He has worked at the National Cancer Institute, and presented at the 2005 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Aquatic Sciences Meeting. His interests include theology, bioethics, anime, film criticism, literature, comic books, photography, blogging and hiking.

Martha H. Stipanuk is Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, where she has been a faculty member since 1977. Currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the Field of Nutrition at Cornell, she has published numerous research articles in the area of amino acid metabolism, and has edited Biochemical and Physiological Aspects of Human Nutrition (2000). Her interests include mentoring Christian women in the academic community.

James R. Stouffer is Professor Emeritus of Animal Science at Cornell University, where he taught from 1956-1988. He has served as Food Science Advisor to University of Nigeria, and as a visiting professor at several universities, including University of Goettingen, West Germany. He is the founder of Animal Ultrasound Services and a consultant to the livestock industry. His interests include developing electronic technology for evaluating market animals.

Camille Wilson graduated from Cornell in 2000 with a Bachelors in International Agriculture and Adult Education. She is currently in her final year of a Masters program at at Johns Hopkins University in Clinical Community Counseling. Camille volunteers for the Chesterton House periodically creating fliers and brochures. She is actively involved in her church in northern Virginia ministering to young families while serving as the Nursery Coordinator.