Jonathan Holloway (historian)

Jonathan Holloway
Holloway in 2023
21st President of Rutgers University
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2020
Preceded by	Robert Barchi
Provost of Northwestern University
In office August 1, 2017 – July 1, 2020
Preceded by	Daniel I. Linzer
Succeeded by	Kathleen Hagerty
Dean of Yale College
In office July 1, 2014 – July 1, 2017
Preceded by	Mary Miller
Succeeded by	Marvin Chun
Personal details
Born	Jonathan Scott Holloway 1967 (age 56–57) Hawaii, U.S.
Relatives	Brian Holloway (brother)
Education	Stanford University (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD)
Academic background
Thesis	Confronting the Veil: New Deal African-American Intellectuals and the Evolution of a Radical Voice (1995)
Doctoral advisor	David Montgomery
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	University of California, San Diego Calhoun College Yale University Northwestern University Rutgers University

Jonathan Scott Holloway (born 1967) is an American historian, academic administrator, and the 21st president of Rutgers University.

Holloway was named as the president of Rutgers University in January 2020 becoming the first person of color and first African American to be named president of Rutgers. He assumed the position on July 1, 2020.^[1] Before coming to Rutgers, he was the provost of Northwestern University, a position he held between August 1, 2017, and July 1, 2020. Before that, he was the dean of Yale College and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies at Yale University. During his tenure as Rutgers president, he oversaw the response to the 2023 Rutgers University strike. In an email to students on September 17, 2024 Holloway announced his resignation stating that the 2024–2025 academic year will be his final year as university president and he would not seek a contract extension.