Jonathan Holloway designated the Edmund S. Morgan Professor

Jonathan Holloway, newly named as the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies, is a specialist in post-emancipation U.S. history with a focus on cultural and intellectual history.

A graduate of Stanford University, Holloway earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1995. He has served as master of Calhoun College, chair of the Council of Masters, and chair of the Department of African American Studies. He became dean of Yale College in July 2014.

Holloway is the author of “Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941” and “Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940.” He edited Ralph Bunche’s “A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership” and co-edited the anthology “Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the 20th Century.” He has written an introduction for a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folk,” forthcoming from Yale University Press in June 2015.

The Yale professor received the William Clyde DeVane Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College in 2009. He held fellowships with the Stanford Humanities Center, the Ford Foundation, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. In 2011-2012 he was an Alphonse Fletcher senior fellow (acknowledging work studying the legacies of Brown v. Board of Education). He participates in the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program and regularly leads summer seminars on Jim Crow and American citizenship for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.