Jonathan Holloway

Jonathan Holloway, Ph.D., Yale University, 1995, is Professor of African American Studies, History and American Studies. He specializes in post-emancipation United States history with a focus on social and intellectual history. He is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002), the editor of Ralph Bunche's A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (2005), and the co-editor of Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the 20th Century (2007), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He is presently working on his next monograph, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory, Identity, and Politics in Black America, 1941-2000. For the 2009-2010 academic year, Holloway is teaching his undergraduate survey, "African American History: Emancipation to the Present," and a graduate seminar, "Theorizing the Racial Formation of the United States." In 2009 Holloway won the William Clyde DeVane Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College. Since 2005 he has served as the master of Calhoun College, one of Yale's twelve residential colleges. He is currently Chair of the Council of Masters.