“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”--Zora Neale Hurston
About
Sylvea Hollis is an Associate Professor of African and African American History at Montgomery College. She also teaches courses in MC's Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program. She earned a Ph.D. in US History from the University of Iowa.
Before coming to Montgomery College in the fall of 2020, Dr. Hollis was a National Park Service-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and taught courses in gender and sexuality in the American Studies Department at The George Washington University. She earned a MA in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (SUNY-Oneonta) and has extensive experience in the museum field.
Her most current work is a research project on the “Birmingham Years” of the African American sculptor, John W. Rhoden, for a forthcoming exhibition catalog with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She also is a board member for Perisphere Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. The theater, "produces plays that examine personal and collective history and the notion of history itself."
