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University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Moses, Yolanda

Professor of Anthropology

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Anthropology


Biography

Dr. Yolanda T. Moses is a professor of anthropology, and a nationally recognized expert on cultural diversity. She serves as Vice Provost for Conflict Resolution and the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Excellence and Diversity at UC Riverside. From 2000-2003 she was President of the American Association for Higher Education, a Washington, D.C.-based higher education membership association composed of faculty, administrators, and graduate students. Dr. Moses served as President of The City College of New York from 1993 to 1999, and before that was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. From 1982 to 1988 she was Dean of the College of the Arts and Professor of Social Science (Anthropology) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Former Institution

American Association for Higher Education (President)

Degrees

Ph.D. (Honorary) 1998

Bloomfield College of New Jersey

Ph.D. 1976

UC Riverside

MA 1974

UC Riverside

BA 1968

San Bernardino Valley College

Awards

S. J. Schraer Award 2006
San Bernardino Valley College Alumni Hall of Fame
Crain's New York Business as a Top Minority Executive (1997)


Research Area

Professor Moses’ research focuses on the broad question of what are the origins of social inequality in complex societies through comparative ethnographic and survey methods. She has explored gender and class disparities in Caribbean and East Africa. More recently her research has focused on issues of diversity and change in universities and colleges in the United States, India, and South Africa. She is currently involved with a national public education project funded by NSF and the Ford Foundation on the meaning of race in every day life. Moses served as President of the American Anthropological Association (1995-97), Chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Past President of City College of New York (CUNY), President of the American Association for Higher Education at George Washington University, and Professor of Anthropology at CUNY Graduate University.

Publications

Dr. Moses is the author of numerous articles, monographs, and papers on issues related to cultural change in the United States and in the Caribbean, cultural change in higher education, and cultural diversity and public policy issues. She was a consultant and researcher for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), which resulted in her ground-breaking monograph Black Women in Academe, and she was a member of the Association's national panel on liberal learning in the major that resulted in two significant publications. She served on the Executive Board of the AAC&U and was President of the Board. She has served in editorial capacities for The American Anthropologist, The American Ethnologist,
Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and The Anthropology and Education Quarterly.