Art Education
College of Arts and Architecture
School of Visual Arts
JAMES HAYWOOD ROLLING, JR., Ed.D., Ed.M.
Assistant Professor of Art Education
James Haywood Rolling, Jr. earned his Ed.D. and Ed.M. in art education at Teachers College, Columbia University, his M.F.A. in studio research at Syracuse University, and his B.F.A. at The Cooper Union School of Art. 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 espousing a fully integrated curriculum, while continuing his work as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Teachers College. Previously, Dr. Rolling served as the director of academic administration in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College from 1999 to 2003 during the completion of his dissertation. In 2006, Dr. Rolling was awarded the prestigious 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, and the Journal of Curriculum Studies and serves on the review panel of Art Education, the journal of the National Art Education Association. His research interests include: studio arts as research practice; visual culture and identity politics; curriculum theory; autoethnography, autobiography, and poetics; and narrative inquiry in qualitative research.