Dr. Jonathan Holloway
Our Beloved Roots: Heritage Tourism, Museums of Horror, and the Commerce of Memory
4:00 pm Gentry 131
How do we fashion narratives of who we are? How do we set the terms of our stories when we lack institutional control over the resources of storytelling? Jonathan Holloway addresses these questions in a reading from his book, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940. This book, a mixture of traditional historical narrative and memoir, examines how African Americans have told stories about their past for the sake of their present and future.
Jonathan Holloway, Professor of History, American Studies, and African American Studies, became Dean of Yale College in July 2014. Before assuming the deanship, Dean Holloway served as the master of Calhoun College, as Chair of the Council of Masters, and Chair of the Department of African American Studies. A specialist in post-emancipation United States history, Dean Holloway has written widely on social and intellectual history in America. Most recently, he has written an introduction for a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk, to be published by Yale University Press in 2015. He has held fellowships from the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Ford Foundation. In 2009, Dean Holloway won the William Clyde DeVane Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College, and in 2011-2012 he was an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellow. Currently, he is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
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