Holloway, Jonathan S(cott) 1967-

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HOLLOWAY, Jonathan S(cott) 1967-

PERSONAL:

Born July 26, 1967, in Honolulu, HI; son of Wendell and Kay (Trent) Holloway; married Aisling Colón, October 31, 1998; children: Emerson Kay, Ellison Becket. Education: Stanford University, A.B. (with honors), 1989; Yale University, M.A., 1991, M.Phil., 1993, Ph.D., 1995. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Methodist.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of African-American Studies, History, and American Studies, Yale University, 493 College St., P.O. Box 203388, New Haven, CT 06520-3388; fax: 203-432-2102. E-mail—jonathan.holloway@yale.edu.

CAREER:

University of CaliforniaSan Diego, assistant professor of ethnic studies, 1994-98; Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor, 1999-2002, associate professor of African-American studies, history, and American studies, 2002—, Morse junior faculty fellow in humanities, 2001-02. Smithsonian Institution, visiting scholar with National African American Museum Project, 1993-94; Ralph Bunche centenary commemoration committee, member; guest on media programs, including Lehrer Newshour and ABC World News Tonight; film consultant.

MEMBER:

American Studies Association, Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Cosmos Club.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Coro Foundation fellow, 1989-90; Dorothy Danforth Compton prize fellow, Danforth Foundation, 1990-93; Ford Foundation fellow, 1990-93; Huggins-Quarles Award, Organization of American Historians, 1994; All People's Diversity Award, Cross Cultural Center, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, 1997.

WRITINGS:

Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 2002.

Contributor to collections, including The African American Experience (CD-ROM), edited by Michele Stepto, Research Publications, 1995; and The Crisis Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Harold Wright, Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ). Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including American Quarterly, Reviews in American History, Journal of Progressive Human Services, Yale-China Journal of American Studies, Black Scholar, and Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Editing A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership, by Ralph Bunche, for New York University Press (New York, NY); editing Black Scholars on the Line: Social Science and American Thought in the Twentieth Century, with Ben Keppel; Jim Crow Wisdom: Race, Memory, and Rhetoric, 1941-2000; "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge," to be included in The Humanities and the Dynamics of Wisdom, 1945-1985, edited by David Hollinger.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, November, 2002, D. R. Jamieson, review of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941, p. 538.

Journal of American History, June, 2003, Vernon J. Williams, Jr., review of Confronting the Veil, pp. 273-274.

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