Jonathan Holloway was named dean of Yale College, the undergraduate division of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Holloway is a professor of history and American studies and chair of the Department of African American studies at Yale. He will begin his duties as dean on July 1.
Professor Holloway is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) and Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
Dr. Holloway is a graduate of Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.