Assistant Professor Honored for his Doctoral Dissertation
March 22, 2006
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – James Haywood Rolling, Jr., assistant professor of art education, has been awarded the prestigious 2006 Narrative and Research Special Interest Group (SIG) Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Education Research Association (AERA) for his Teacher's College, Columbia University doctoral dissertation, Un-Naming the Story: The Poststructuralist Repositioning of African-American Identity in Western Visual Culture. His research involves interrogations of the certainties and norms of modernity, examining the archaeologies underlying the (re)constitution of individual and social identities as they are ensconced in Western visual culture.
Rolling 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. Before joining the Penn State faculty, Rolling held a number of administrative and teaching positions in elementary schools, most recently serving as a visual arts teacher for kindergarten through four grade at The School at Columbia University, a new elementary school espousing a fully integrated curriculum, while working as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Teachers College. Rolling has published articles, essays and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals such as Qualitative Inquiry and Studies in Art Education, and serves on the review panel of Art Education, the journal of the National Art Education Association.
Contact: James Rolling, jhr16@psu.edu