About
Colin Hennessy Elliott is an Assistant Clinical Professor of STEM Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum (TLC) at Drexel University. Before pursuing a PhD, he taught high school physics in Newark, NJ, and continues to do volunteer work supporting youth in his community. He has expertise in critical video-based ethnographic methods, particularly Interaction Analysis and ethnomethodology, and participatory research methods. His teaching and research interests focus on working in solidarity with youth, families, teachers, and communities to support and develop justice-oriented STEM learning spaces that value youths’ ingenuity. Working in collaboration, he uses critical and sociopolitical perspectives to support remaking powered relations in and beyond classrooms. This includes considering disciplinary practices and challenging oppressive structures imbued in social practices of science, engineering, and schooling.