James Rowland Angell (/ˈeɪndʒəl/; May 8, 1869 – March 4, 1949) was an American psychologist and educator who served as the 16th President of Yale University between 1921 and 1937.

In 1908, Angell was raised to the level of Dean at Chicago, leaving the psychology department to another of his former students, Harvey Carr.

During the last year of World War I Angell worked for the military under the supervision of Northwestern University psychologist Walter Dill Scott.

In 1921, Angell was appointed President of Yale University, the first non-Yale graduate to hold the position since the early 18th century.

He remained president of the university until his retirement in 1937, at which point he became educational counselor of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC).

[7] Angell's role at NBC was to "devise and suggest methods by which we may more capably serve radio's listening millions".

Angell was a driving force behind the development of the art-appreciation program Art for Your Sake, which debuted on NBC radio in October 1939.

In 1894, James married Marion Isabel Watrous from Des Moines, Iowa, a fellow graduate of the University of Michigan.

He subsequently married Katharine Cramer Woodman in 1932,[9] who brought great joy to his life because of the interest she took in his students and problems.

The backlash from some about his implication of leaving out the structuralism model in studies and having a completely functionalist view did not sit well amongst some of his peers.

[13] In her book Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Donna Haraway writes that "Angell paradigmatically represented the elaborate interconnections of university, industry, philanthropy, and science policy in the development of the material structures and ideologies of scientific management of society."