JAMES HAYWOOD ROLLING JR.


Associate Professor; Program Coordinator

School of Art and Design
Art Education

jrolling@syr.edu


Education:
Ed.D., Ed.M. Columbia University

Office: M-17 Skytop Rm.
Telephone: 315-443-2355

Biography:
James Haywood Rolling Jr. is a dual associate professor in art education and teaching and leadership at Syracuse University. Dr. Rolling earned his Ed.D. and Ed.M. in art education at Teachers College, Columbia University. In his earlier education, Dr. Rolling completed his M.F.A. in studio arts research at Syracuse University as a Graduate Fellow in the African American Studies Department, and earned his B.F.A. in visual arts with a minor in creative writing at The Cooper Union School of Art.  As a doctoral student, Dr. Rolling also served as the director of academic administration in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College from 1999 to 2003.

After completing his doctoral studies, Dr. Rolling served as a visual arts teacher and curriculum designer for grades K, 2, 3, and 4 at The School at Columbia University, a new elementary school that opened espousing a fully integrated curriculum; he was also an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Teachers College at this time. In 2005, Dr. Rolling became an assistant professor of art education at the Pennsylvania State University. In 2006, Dr. Rolling was awarded the Narrative and Research Special Interest Group (SIG) Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Education Research Association (AERA) for his doctoral dissertation, "Un-Naming the Story: The Poststructuralist Repositioning of African-American Identity in Western Visual Culture." He was also the recipient of the 2006 Roy C. Buck Award from Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture for the best refereed article in a scholarly journal.

Dr. Rolling has published articles, essays, and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals such as Qualitative Inquiry, Studies in Art Education, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, the Journal of Curriculum Studies, and the Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy; serves on the review panel of Art Education, the journal of the National Art Education Association; and is an associate editor of the upcoming SAGE Encyclopedia of Identity. A founding member of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Dr. Rolling’s research interests include arts-based research, the studio arts as research practice, visual culture and identity politics, curriculum theory, autoethnography, social justice, and narrative inquiry in qualitative research.