American Studies

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ISPS Director's Fellow, 2026

Elsa Holahan is a junior in Timothy Dwight College studying American Studies. Her policy interests include prisons, policing, and surveillance; and alternatives to carceral systems. On campus, Elsa is an Academic Strategies Mentor with the Yale Prison Education Initiative, and a Mellon Mays and Edward A. Bouchet Fellow. She also serves as a Co-Chair on the New Haven Democratic Town Committee representing Ward 22. 

Daniel HoSang
Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies

Daniel Martinez HoSang is Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science and serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee.

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