As a graduate student at UNL Colin oversaw the administration of a federally funded NIJ grant which involved a multi-year study of the Nebraska Probation Administration, a division of the State Judicial Branch. He conducted applied advanced statistical analysis to applied research and program evaluation for the Nebraska Judicial Branch, Adult and Juvenile Probation Services Divisions. Dr. Holloway has conducted evaluations of juvenile justice and treatment court programs and has studied social and policy decision-making in areas of criminal law, jury behavior, voting behavior, and rehabilitative justice. 

After graduation Colin served as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Creighton University, in Omaha Nebraska where he taught course in Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, and Research Methods / Statistics and managed student research projects as part of course work. Currently Dr. Holloway continues his work in applied social psychology as a Project Director/Research Associate at NPC Research, Portland, Oregon where he has major responsibilities for conducting the California Shriver Civil Counsel Act evaluation, as well as several treatment court evaluations.