Stephan Ellenwood

Chair, Department of Curriculum & Teaching; Associate Professor of Education
BA, Grinnell College; MAT, Brown University; PhD, Northwestern University

Dr. Ellenwood’s areas of professional expertise and research include law-focused social studies education, intercultural education, and character education. He has directed a U.S. Justice Department project aimed at reducing school violence, vandalism, and disruption. He has also directed curriculum development projects in character and relationship education sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Ellenwood has also served as chairman of an international educational committee for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. Dr. Ellenwood is chair of the School’s Department of Curriculum & Teaching, which includes programs in early childhood education, elementary education, educational media and technology, English education, English and language arts education, physical education and coaching, Latin and classical humanities, mathematics education, reading education, science education, special education, and social studies education.