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Kevin O’Connor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Clark University. His research interests are in the analysis of situated interaction in learning contexts, with a focus on participants’ trajectories as they work, along with others, to construct their futures and the futures of the communities in which they participate. He is involved in several projects related to this overarching interest. One set of projects examines university students’ trajectories toward possible futures in professional careers. A second project involves an ethnography of the formation of the Rochester Children’s Zone, a major community development initiative in Rochester, NY, which examines how links between children’s and youths’ present and future lives are actively created and maintained as they develop into a developing community that is being developed for—and with—them. His teaching interests include theories of human development; sociocultural theories of communication, cognition, and identity; discourse analysis; and qualitative and interpretive research methods.
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