Jonathan Scott Holloway
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Jonathan Scott Holloway is President of Rutgers University where he is also University Professor and Distinguished Professor. He specializes in post-emancipation United States history with a focus on social and intellectual history. He is the author of THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM: A CONCISE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS (2021), JIM CROW WISDOM: MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN BLACK AMERICA SINCE 1940 (2013), and CONFRONTING THE VEIL: ABRAM HARRIS JR., E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER, AND RALPH BUNCHE, 1919-1941 (2002). He edited Ralph Bunche's A BRIEF AND TENTATIVE ANALYSIS OF NEGRO LEADERSHIP (2005) and, with Ben Keppel (University of Oklahoma), co-edited BLACK SCHOLARS ON THE LINE: RACE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND AMERICAN THOUGHT IN THE 20TH CENTURY (2007). He wrote a critical introduction for a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (2015). Holloway serves on the boards of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians.
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