Daniel Holland

CAUSE Postdoctoral Fellow

Bio

Dan Holland is the 2025-2026 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) in the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the 2025 Scholar in Residence at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s Pennsylvania State Archives. Dan received his BA degree in Carnegie Mellon University’s Policy and History program and his Master of Arts degree from CMU’s Heinz College. He earned his PhD in history from the University of Pittsburgh, where he completed an innovative transnational dissertation on deindustrialization in the modern world. In 2024, Routledge Studies in Modern History published a revised and enlarged version of this study, titled Communities of Resistance and Resilience in the Post-Industrial City: A Transnational Perspective from Lyon and Pittsburgh,1980-2010.

Dan’s recent professional positions include market research analyst for Frost Bank in San Antonio, Texas; adjunct professor of history at Duquesne University; and Director of Research and Policy for the Lower Marshall-Shadeland Development initiative on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Dan is also Founder and Past CEO of the Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh. He was the primary researcher for the first PHMC-sponsored survey of African American historical resources, which culminated in the book, African American Historic Site Survey of Allegheny County, 1760-1960 (1994). As a Postdoctoral Fellow with Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), Dan reinforces the Center’s public history events related to the completion of the recent A. W. Mellon-funded project, “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions.”