Professor Holloway received a B.A., majoring in art history, from Barnard College. She completed her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the History of Art at Yale University. Her research centers on modernism and photography within the circum-Atlantic world, paying special attention to the impact of race and racism on art and aesthetics. She is currently working on a monograph on the photographer James L. Allen (1907-1977) based on her crucial research and exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1999 that rescued the Harlem Renaissance photographer from virtual obscurity. Professor Holloway also has a particular interest in the role race plays in the development of modernist photography in the United States between the Two World Wars. Her examination of racial concepts in Alfred Stieglitz’s portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe was published in Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies in 2005.
Professor Holloway has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Swarthmore College and the University of Southern California, offering courses on American Art, African American Art, Modern Art, the History of Photography, and Race and Representation.
Professor Holloway is the co-founder of the Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH), an organization dedicated to promoting the study of race within art history, which has recently become an affiliated society of the College Art Association. She is also editor of ACRAH’s quarterly newsletter, The Grapevine.
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