Yolanda
Moses
Professor Emerita/University Research Professor, University of California Riverside
Dr. Yolanda T. Moses-currently serves as Professor Emerita of Anthropology and University Research Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Moses’ research focuses on the broad question of the origins of social inequality in complex societies through the use of comparative ethnographic and bio-cultural survey methods. More recently, her research has focused on issues of diversity and change in universities and colleges in the United States, India, Europe, South Africa, Australia and Mexico. She is the author of many public facing articles and is the co-author of two books on Race. How Real is Race: Unraveling, Race Culture and Biology (2025) with Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary Henze, and Race are so Different? (2020) with Alan Goodman and Joseph Jones. She is past president of the American Anthropology Association and is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Keck Graduate Institute at the Claremont Colleges, and Vice Chair of the Board of the Global Citizenship Alliance.
