Wayne State University

Warrior strong
Login
Search

College of Education College of Education

Roland Sintos Coloma

Roland Sintos Coloma

Professor, Teacher Education

(313) 577-0953

rscoloma@wayne.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

267 College of Education

Roland Sintos Coloma

Degrees and Certifications

  • Ph.D., Cultural Studies in Education & Minor in African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University
  • M.A., Cultural Studies in Education, The Ohio State University
  • Teaching Credential, English (CLAD), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • M.A., Educational Administration, University of California, Riverside
  • B.A., Liberal Studies, University of California, Riverside

Academic Interests

  • urban and global education
  • curriculum studies, teacher education, and policy
  • race, class, gender, sexuality, and intersectionality
  • empire, diaspora, and transnationalism
  • cultural studies, history, and post-critical theories
  • Filipino/a/x, Asian American, and Asian Canadian studies

Biography

Leadership in Academic Organizations

  • President - American Educational Studies Association [AESA] (2018-19)
    Immediate Past President (2019-20), President-elect and Program Chair (2017-18), Vice President (2016-17), Nomination Committee (2023)
  • Program Co-Chair, Division G: Social Context of Education - American Educational Research Association [AERA] (2018-20)
  • Editor - Educational Studies journal (2014-17)
  • Program Chair, Division F: History and Historiography - AERA (2009-11)
  • Secretary/Treasurer, Postcolonial Studies and Education SIG - AERA (2006-09)

Previous Administrative Experience

  • Assistant Dean - Division of Teacher Education, Wayne State University
  • Chair - Department of Teacher Education, Northern Kentucky University
  • Chair - Department of Teacher Education, Miami University (Ohio)
  • Associate Chair and Graduate Coordinator - Department of Social Justice Education, OISE University of Toronto (Canada)
  • Co-Director - Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, OISE University of Toronto (Canada)

Other Prior Employment

  • Teacher, English - Los Angeles High School, Baldwin Park High School, and Ramona High School (California)
  • Coordinator, Asian Pacific Student Programs Office - University of California, Riverside

Awards

  • Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies Prize for the Asian Canadian Studies Reader (with Gordon Pon) - Canadian Studies Network / Reseau d'etudes canadiennes (2019)
  • Distinguished Service to Education and Community Award - National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (2018)
  • Distinguished Scholar Award - Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans SIG, American Educational Research Association (2017)
  • Outstanding Faculty Award - Black Faculty and Staff Association, Northern Kentucky University (2017)
  • Visiting Scholar - University of Sydney, Australia (2016)
  • Article of the Year Award - Queer Studies SIG, American Educational Research Association (2015)

Grants

Total External Funding = $3.1M as Principal Investigator + $212K as Co-Investigator
 
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Preparing Equity Warriors: Creating Pipelines to Organize for Change ($750,000 | 2024-27 | National Education Association), Co-P.I.: Annette Christiansen, Michigan Education Association 
  • Principal Investigator, Southeast Michigan Pipeline for Next Generation of Diverse Teachers ($58,000 | 2023-24 | Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan)
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Project MITTEN 2.0 planning grant (2023-24 | $10,000 | National Education Association), Co-P.I.: Annette Christiansen, Michigan Education Association
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Detroit STEM Education Initiative ($263,797 | 2023-24 | General Motors), website | Co-P.I.: Jennifer Lewis, Wayne State University
  • Co-Investigator, Moments & Movements: Challenging Asian American Invisibility in Racial Justice in K-12 Education ($50,000 | 2022-24 | Spencer Foundation), P.I.: Dr. Betina Hsieh, CSU Long Beach
  • Principal Investigator, Project MITTEN: Michigan Initiative to Transform Educational and Equity Networks ($675,000 | 2021-24 | National Education Association) website
  • Principal Investigator, Shifting Urban Narratives: Youth Civic Engagement and America's Future (2020-21) | $140,000 | Schultz Family Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Competition) website | Vimeo: How Storytelling Effects Change
  • Co-Investigator, "Increased Equity and Access for Urban Educators" ($32,000 | 2020-22 | Community Telecommunications Network), P.I.: Katie Baleja, Wayne State University
  • Principal Investigator, “Metro Detroit Teaching Residency for Urban Excellence (TRUE) Project” ($1,111,126 | 2019-24 | U.S. Department of Education, Teacher Quality Partnership)
  • Principal Investigator, “From Grief to Grievance: Asian Canadian Demands to the Government” ($39,869 | 2010-13 | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC] Research Development Initiatives Grant)
  • Principal Investigator, “Spectres of In/visibility: Filipina/o Lives in Canada” ($16,512 | 2009-11 | SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences)

Community Engagement Activities

  • Organizing Committee, Educators Rising Conference & Competition, Michigan Education Association and Wayne State University (2023-present)
  • Advisory Board, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Michigan State University (2023-present)
  • Commissioner, Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission (2020-24)

Publications

Books

  • Coloma, R.S., & Rhee, J. (Eds.). (2022). Diversity, democracy, and social justice in education. Elsevier. (Volume 2 of International encyclopedia of education, 4th edition)
  • Coloma, R.S., & Pon, G. (Eds.). (2017). Asian Canadian studies reader. University of Toronto Press.
  • Coloma, R.S., McElhinny, B., Tungohan, E., Catungal, J.P., & Davidson, L. (Eds.). (2012). Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing invisibility. University of Toronto Press.
  • Coloma, R.S. (Ed.). (2009). Postcolonial challenges in education. Peter Lang.

Journal Articles (since 2018)

  • Coloma, R. S. (2024). Decolonizing queer epistemology: Boys love and cultural imaginary from the global majority. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.60808/cvn9-4528
  • Yu, M., Coloma, R. S., Sun, W., & Kwon, J. (2024). Dissecting anti-Asian racism through a historical and transnational AsianCrit lens. Sociological Inquiry, 94(2), 330-350. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12572
  • Coloma, R. S., Brewster, W., Christiansen, A., Fancher, M. P., Hayes, C., Johnson, L., Matias, C. E., Wotruba, D., Baker, M., Campbell, N., Kubitskey, B., & Tapp, A. R. (2023). Critical race theory in schools?: The struggle for a more inclusive curriculum. Thresholds in Education, 46(1), 8-32.
  • Coloma, R. S., Chang, S., Rice, M. F., Mui, R., Ocomen, K., Rao, N., McKeithen–Polish, S., Desai, M., & Palepu, K. (2022). Beyond model minority: Asian American history in Michigan’s K–12 schools. The Great Lakes Social Studies Journal, 2(2), 27–32.
  • Hamdan, S., & Coloma, R. S. (2022). Assessing teachers' cultural competency. Journal of Educational Foundations, 35(1), 108-128.
  • Coloma, R. S., Hsieh, B., Poon, O., Chang, S., Choimorrow, S.Y., Kulkarni, M.P., Meng, G., Patel, L., & Tintiangco-Cubales, A. (2021). Reckoning with anti-Asian violence: Racial grief, visionary organizing, and educational responsibility. Educational Studies, 57(4), 378-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2021.1945607
  • Coloma, R. S. (2020). Decolonizing urban education. Educational Studies, 56(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2019.1711095
  • Coloma, R. S. (2020). Unresolved feelings: Notes on pleasure and pain from an accidental educator. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 33(6), 649-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2020.1720853
  • Hepburn, S., & Coloma, R. S. (2019). Ageing transmigrants and the decolonisation of life course. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 38(1), 48-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2018.1513428
  • Coloma, R. S. (2018). Setting theory to work in history of education. History of Education Review, 47(1), 40-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/HER-05-2017-0009
  • Coloma, R. S. (2018). Queering Asian Canada: Troubling family, generation, and community. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 4(1-2), 89-113. https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00401005

Book Chapters (since 2018)

  • Duran, A., & Coloma, R. S. (2023). Queer joy as an affective incitement to queer and trans studies in education. In A. Duran, K. K. Strunk, & R. Schey (Eds.), Bridging the rainbow gap: Possibilities and tensions in queer and trans studies in education (pp. 109–124). Brill.
  • Coloma, R. S. (2023). “The struggle continues …”: On the cruel optimism of LGBT organizing. In M. F. Manalansan IV, R. Diaz, & R. Tolentino (Eds.), Beauty and brutality: Manila and its global discontents (pp. 220–242). Temple University Press.
  • Coloma, R. S., & Rhee, J.–e. (2022). Introduction: Struggling against virus of hate. In R. S. Coloma & J.–e. Rhee (Eds.), Diversity, democracy, and social justice in education. Elsevier.

Creative Works

  • Coloma, R. S., Reynolds, A. D., & Crowley, C. B. (Curators & Directors). (2021). They didn’t know we were seeds: Detroit tales of resilience (film, exhibition, and virtual gallery). website

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Coloma, R. S. (2022). LGBTQ rights movement, Filipina/x/o American. In K. L. Y. Nadal, A. Tintiangco–Cubales, & E. J. R. David (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American studies. SAGE.
  • Coloma, R. S. (2021). Decolonizing approaches. In K. K. Strunk & S. A. Shelton (Eds.), Encyclopedia of queer studies in education (pp. 144–147). Brill.
  • Coloma, R. S. (2021). Queer archives. In K. K. Strunk & S. A. Shelton (Eds.), Encyclopedia of queer studies in education (pp. 490–493). Brill.

 Book Review

  • Coloma, R. S. (in press). A blueprint for educational criticism through Edward W. Said. Review of the book Edward Said and Education, by Z. Leonardo. Review of Education, Pedagody, and Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2024.2308428

 

Courses taught by Roland Sintos Coloma

Winter Term 2025 (future)

Fall Term 2024 (current)

Winter Term 2024

Fall Term 2023

Fall Term 2022

Winter Term 2022

Recent university news spotlights

← Return to listing