Faculty
Sean Kelly
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests
Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, Social-Psychology, Quantitative Methods
Profile
Sean Kelly has degrees in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA with honors) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MS, Phd). He is a faculty researcher at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. Before coming to Notre Dame, Dr. Kelly was a survey research specialist at the Research Triangle Institute and the UW-Survey Center, and most recently, a statistician at the National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement.
His research on the social-psychological determinants of student engagement and the teaching practices that foster high levels of engagement among all students received an Exemplary Dissertation Award from the Spencer Foundation and has appeared in Social Psychology of Education, Social Science Research, and Sociology of Education. He teaches coursework in the sociology of education and statistics for social scientists.
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Phone: (574) 631-3166
Fax: (574) 631-9238
Office: 1015 Flanner
E-mail: Sean.P.Kelly.206@nd.edu