She is the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor Emerita in the Humanities in the History of Art Department, and current Curator of the Near East Section, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
She has conducted and/or directed archaeological fieldwork in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, Ukraine, and Tunisia.
As a professor, she has supervised over fifty Ph.D. theses from students in a range of fields, including History of Art, Architecture, Urban Planning, Religious Studies, Middle East Studies, and Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.
[3] She has consulted on architectural projects in Iraq (the Abu Nuwas River Bank Project with Arthur Ericson Vancouver in 1981, and the Iraq State Mosque with Venturi, Rauch, Scott-Brown in 1982-83);[4] the United States (The Islamic Cultural Center of New York, with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill 1986-88);[5][6] and the United Arab Emirates (the Palm Jumeirah Gateway Bridge for The Palm Dubai with H2L2 in 2003).
Prof. Holod has supervised and mentored over fifty students at various institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, where she has overseen at least forty doctoral dissertations.