Assistant Professor of Education
School of Education, Room 218
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-492-8554
Fax: 303-492-7090
E-mail: Kevin.OConnor@colorado.edu

Kevin O’Connor is assistant professor of educational psychology. His scholarship focuses on human action, communication, and learning as socioculturally organized phenomena. One major strand of research has explored the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilemmas encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. Another strand of research has explored community organizing efforts that aim to construct new trajectories into valued futures for youth, especially those of nondominant communities. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; and the Journal of Engineering Education. His teaching interests include developmental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; and discourse analysis.

Education:
PhD, Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 2001
BA, Philosophy, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Penn., 1987