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

Holloway was born in Hawaii and raised on military bases in Montgomery, Alabama and Maryland while his father served in the United States Air Force.

[2][3] He was a star football player at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland,[4] and he was named an All-American honorable mention by USA Today.

[6][9] He began his academic career at the University of California, San Diego,[9] before returning to Yale and joining its faculty in 1999.

Holloway is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002) and Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (2013), both published by the University of North Carolina Press.

[14] At Rutgers, Holloway endorsed a climate goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040, established a public service-focused summer internship program, and commissioned a diversity strategic plan.

[24] These claims were disputed by several scholars,[25] and the legality of public worker strikes in the state remains unclear.

The vote was 89–47 and came after several unpopular actions by Holloway, including not renewing the contract of Nancy Cantor, the popular chancellor of the school’s Newark campus, and threatening to file an injunction against Rutgers faculty during its strike.

I look forward to seeing it flourish in the years ahead.” [28] Holloway is married to Aisling Colón, and they have a son, Ellison, and a daughter, Emerson.