Dr. Holland received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia (MU). From 1980 - 1988, he served as an osteological consultant for the Iowa Office of Historic Preservation and Missouri Department of Natural Resources as well as an archaeologist, research assistant, and instructor at UM. From 1988 - 1992, he served as Assistant and Associate Curator for the Museum of Anthropology at UM. He has published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Antiquity, the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Current Anthropology, Studies in Archaeological Method and Theory, Quaternary Research, Missouri Archaeologist, and Plains Anthropologist, among other forums. He has presented papers or co-authored presentations at meetings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Society for American Archaeology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and at the Fourth Indo-Pacific Congress on Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.

Since 1992, Dr. Holland has worked at the CILHI in the positions of anthropologist, Senior Anthropologist, and Scientific Director. He has supervised excavations of crash and burial sites in China, Korea, Southeast Asia and Iraq and has conducted numerous skeletal analyses. Dr. Holland is a certified Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology (no. 51). He is a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for American Archaeology, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.