Jonathan Holloway (historian)

Jonathan Holloway
Born	Jonathan Scott Holloway
Education	Stanford University Yale University
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 to 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. He has been named Provost of Northwestern University, starting July 1, 2017.

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

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. He was considered a candidate for the Yale College deanship in 2008, when Mary Miller was appointed. He was appointed as her successor in May 2014 by Yale President Peter Salovey.

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. In January 2015, a black student was held at gunpoint by a Yale police officer when mistaken for a burglary suspect. 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. In November 2015, a large number of students protested against institutional racism on campus, precipitated in part by an incident involving the purported exclusion of black students from a fraternity party and an email that suggested that students might wish to consider whether the Dean's Office should provide guidance regarding Halloween costumes.

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