Yolanda Moses is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and former Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Excellence. She previously served as Chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (2000), Past President of City University of New York/The City College (1993-1999), and President of the American Association for Higher Education (2000-2003). She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation from 1996 to 2008.
Her research focuses on the broad question of the origins of social inequality in complex societies and on gender and class disparities in the Caribbean, East Africa, and in the United States. More recently, her research has focused on issues of diversity and change in universities and colleges in the United States, India, Europe, and South Africa. Moses’ faculty positions have included a senior visiting research appointment at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. (2000 to 2004), and a position as Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate University (1993-2000). She was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia in 2016-17.
She has been involved with several national higher buy viagra in dubai education projects, including with the National Council for Research on Women, Campus Women Lead, and The Women of Color Research Collective. She chairs a national public education project sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and funded by NSF and the Ford Foundation on Race and Human Variation, and serves as a consultant with the American Council on Education’s project on linking International and Diversity Issues. She has served as a faculty member in the Salzburg Seminar’s ISP Global Citizenship Program in Salzburg, Austria. In 2009, she was named an AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Fellow.
Moses is the co-author with Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze, professors at San Jose State, of the book: How Real is Race: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture and Biology (2007) Rowman and Littlefield; (2014) Altamira Press. She is also co-author, along with Alan Goodman and Joseph Jones, of the book, Race: are we so different? published by Wiley-Blackwell (2012).
She began her higher education with an Associate of Arts degree from San Bernardino Valley College, and culminated with a PhD in Anthropology in 1976 from the University of California, Riverside.