Opened Practices Users Named: Jo

Dr. Jo Beld's teaching and research specializations include American politics, public policy, ethics, and social science research methods.

Professor Beld has been a faculty member at St. Olaf College since 1984. Her principal research expertise is in U.S. public policies affecting family well-being, with a specialization in federal and state child support policy. Her child support research has been disseminated to academic, practitioner, and policy-making audiences at both the state and national levels, and has helped to shape recent changes in Minnesota’s child support statutes. Professor Beld has also provided leadership for a number of initiatives at St. Olaf; she was appointed Director of General Education in the late 1990s and led a federally-funded faculty development program in oral communication across the curriculum. Currently, she is on released time from teaching to serve as the director of the Office of Academic Research and Planning at St. Olaf; she is also chair of the college’s Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects. Professor Beld is married to Tim Delmont and lives in south Minneapolis. They have four children and one grandchild.