Jonathan Holloway (historian)

Jonathan Holloway
Born Jonathan Scott Holloway
Education Stanford University
Yale University
Occupation Historian, Provost of Northwestern University

Jonathan Scott Holloway (born 1967) is an American historian of post-emancipation American history and black intellectual history.

Holloway became Provost of Northwestern University on August 1, 2017. He is Northwestern University's Chief Academic Officer and an ex officio member of the faculty of each school. Prior to that, he was the Dean of Yale College and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies at Yale University.

Holloway is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002) and Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (2013), both published by the University of North Carolina Press. He edited Ralph Bunche’s A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (NYU Press, 2005) and co-edited Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the 20th Century (Notre Dame University Press, 2007). He wrote an introduction for a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk, published by Yale University Press in 2015.

Career

Holloway grew up in Montgomery, Alabama and at 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]

Holloway then earned a Ph.D. in history from Yale University. He began his academic career at the University of California, San Diego,[2] before returning to Yale and joining its faculty in 1999. He became a full professor there in 2004.[2]

Holloway was appointed Master (now known as "Head") 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 respected for his approachability, charisma, and involvement in student life.[2][3] For several years, he opposed the change of name of Calhoun, despite student demands, and noted the irony of his serving as the Master of that college; but he changed his mind as many students became more vocal in their opposition to the name in 2015.[4] 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.[5][6]

During the protests regarding Halloween costumes at Yale in November of 2015, while he was Dean, Holloway strongly supported the costume guidelines issued by his office (guidelines which some critics saw as unnecessary, as infantilizing of the students, and as presuming to curtail their free speech, in contravention of Yale's commitments under the "Woodward Report") as "exactly right."[7][8][9] Holloway is a supporter of affirmative action programs and reparations (albeit not cash transfers).[10]

Holloway left Yale and became Provost of Northwestern University on August 1, 2017.

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. 1 2 3 4 Rodman, Micah (5 September 2014). "The master of Yale College". Yale Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 Arnsdorf, Isaac (26 September 2008). "Holloway: Charismatic, but too young?". Yale Daily News. Dean Search. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "HOLLOWAY: Looking back on Calhoun". Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  5. ↑ Lloyd-Thomas, Matthew (21 May 2014). "Salovey Names New Deans". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  6. ↑ Watson, Jamal (22 May 2014). "Two African-American Scholars Join Ranks of Deans". Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "New Videos Show How Yale Betrayed Itself by Favoring Cry-bullies". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  8. ↑ "Yale Students Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email - FIRE". FIRE. 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  9. ↑ Friedersdorf, Conor (2015-11-09). "The New Intolerance of Student Activism". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  10. ↑ "Holloway returns to campus, debates reparations". Retrieved 2018-07-22.
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