Jonathan Holloway (historian)

Jonathan Holloway
Born	Jonathan Scott Holloway
Education	Stanford University (B.A.) Yale University (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Historian, Dean of Yale College

Jonathan Scott Holloway (born 1967) is a historian of post-emancipation American history and black intellectualism. He is the Edward S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University and Dean of Yale College since 2014, the first black person hold the office. He joined the history faculty of Yale University in 1999 and was previously Master of Calhoun College and chair of Yale's Department of African American Studies.

Career

Holloway grew up in Montgomery, Alabama and several other military stations while his father served in the U.S. Air Force.^[1] He graduated from Stanford University in 1989, where he played outside linebacker for the Stanford Cardinal football team.^[2] He received a PhD in history from Yale in 1995 and took an ethnic studies appointment at the University of California, San Diego.^[2] Four years later, he returned to Yale as an assistant professor of history, receiving tenure in 2004.^[2]

Holloway was appointed Master of Calhoun College in 2005 and chaired the governing body of Yale's residential colleges, the Council of Masters, from 2009 to 2014. As a master, Holloway was widely respected for his approachability, charisma and involvement in student life.^[2][3] He was considered a candidate for the Yale College deanship in 2008, when Mary Miller was appointed.^[3] He was appointed as her successor in May 2014 by Yale President Peter Salovey.^[4][5]

Holloway's career as dean has witnessed many incidents related to racial inclusion and racism. In October 2014, campus police investigated swastikas painted on the exterior of a freshman dorm and a Jewish fraternity.^[6] In January 2015, a black student was held at gunpoint by a Yale police officer when mistaken for a burglary suspect.^[7] In the wake of the Charleston church shooting in June 2015, alumni and students began debating the appropriateness of retaining white suprematist U.S. Congressional leader John C. Calhoun as the namesake of Calhoun College, the residential college in which Holloway had served as master.^{[8][9][10][11][12]} In November 2015, a large number of students protested against institutional racism on campus, precipitated by several incidents involving the purported exclusion of black students from a student fraternity event and emails from a campus administrator who endorsed students' rights to wear racially offensive Halloween costumes.^{[13][14][15][16]}

Publications

Books

• Holloway, Jonathan Scott (2002). Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807853437.
• Holloway, Jonathan Scott (2013). Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469610702.

Edited volumes

• Holloway, Jonathan Scott; Keppel, Ben, eds. (2007). Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268030797.

Critical editions

• Bunch, Ralph J. (2005). Holloway, Jonathan Scott, ed. A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership. New York University Press. ISBN 9780814736647.
• DuBois, W. E. B. (2015). Holloway, Jonathan Scott, ed. The Souls of Black Folk. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300195828.

References

1. Barnes, Kristen (13 March 2014). "Dr. Jonathan Holloway of Yale University Is the 2014 Realizing the Dream Distinguished Lecturer". Engaging Diversity at UA Crossroads. University of Alabama. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
2. Rodman, Micah (5 September 2014). "The master of Yale College". Yale Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
3. Arnsdorf, Isaac (26 September 2008). "Holloway: Charismatic, but too young?". Yale Daily News. Dean Search. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
4. Lloyd-Thomas, Matthew (21 May 2014). "Salovey Names New Deans". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
5. Watson, Jamal (22 May 2014). "Two African-American Scholars Join Ranks of Deans". Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
6. "Vandals Deface Yale University With Swastikas". Haaretz. 15 October 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
7. Santora, Marc (4 March 2015). "Yale Report Clears Police Officer in Encounter With Student". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
8. Caplan, Lincoln (October 5, 2015), "The White-Supremacist Lineage of a Yale College: The elite university still honors the South Carolina senator best known for praising the morality of slavery", The Atlantic, retrieved April 30, 2016
9. "To the Yale Administration", Yale students, 2015, retrieved April 30, 2016
10. Remnick, Noah (11 September 2015). "Yale Grapples With Ties to Slavery in Debate Over a College’s Name". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
11. "Freshman Address, Yale College Class of 2019: Launching a Difficult Conversation". president.yale.edu. August 29, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
12. Glenmore, Glenda Elizabeth (April 30, 2016), "At Yale, a Right That Doesn’t Outweigh a Wrong", New York Times (New Haven), retrieved April 30, 2016
13. Swarns, Rachel L. (16 November 2015). "Yale College Dean Torn by Racial Protests". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
14. "Email From Erika Christakis: “Dressing Yourselves,” email to Silliman College (Yale) Students on Halloween Costumes", The Fire, October 30, 2015, retrieved April 30, 2016
15. "President and Yale College dean underscore commitment to a 'better Yale'", Yale University, November 6, 2015, retrieved April 30, 2016
16. Stack, Liam (November 8, 2015), Yale’s Halloween Advice Stokes a Racially Charged Debate, retrieved April 30, 2016