Arthur Romano, S-CAR Assistant Professor

S-CAR is very pleased to welcome a new faculty member. Dr. Arthur Romano joins the School as an Assistant Professor in the undergraduate program. Arthur received his PhD from Bradford University in the United Kingdom where he wrote his dissertation on how international educators who focus on issues of peace and justice have developed pedagogical practices that are epistemologically congruent with insights of complexity theory. For this study, he drew on qualitative data from interviews he conducted with peace educators in India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. From 2004 to 2006, while at Bradford University, Arthur was a Rotary World Peace Fellow.

Arthur brings to S-CAR a wealth of teaching and practice experience. He is a certified Kingian Nonviolence Trainer and has worked with the civil rights activist and close collaborator of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Bernard LaFayette. Last summer, Arthur joined Dr. LaFayette in a project that engaged former combatants from the Niger Delta. Arthur is also the co-creator of an experimental workshop, Diversity Matters Now! which focuses on issues of diversity and working across lines of difference, and which integrates educational theatre, co-counseling techniques, and participatory pedagogy. He is also the founder of Creative Force, a consulting firm that has developed and delivered conflict resolution and diversity trainings at more than 30 universities and colleges across the United States and that has advised university faculty and staff on effective strategies for community engagement in service learning projects and integration of experiential pedagogies in engaged scholarship. Arthur has also designed and taught a semester-long course for “The Scholar Ship” Ocean-Going University, on strategies for navigating global complexity in social justice work, and has taught courses and created experiential curricula with universities in Portugal, Panama, Ecuador, New Zealand, Australia, and China.

This fall Arthur will be teaching three courses in the undergraduate program: Interpersonal Conflict Awareness; Identity Conflicts and Their Resolution; and Community, Group, and Organizational Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He will also be collaborating with the Undergraduate Experiential Learning Project team on developing and testing new simulations, role plays, and other experiential learning tools.