School of Education, Room 240
University of Colorado Boulder
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Boulder, CO 80309
Michele Moses is Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, faculty fellow of the Center for Values and Social Policy and the National Center for Education Policy, and affiliate faculty of Ethnic Studies and of Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the Faculty Director of the professional Master’s program in Higher Education. After serving as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies of the School of Education from 2011 to 2018, she is now serving as CU Boulder’s Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.
Professor Moses teaches courses such as Higher Education in the United States, Theoretical Issues in Education Policy, Philosophy of Education, and Gender Issues in Education.
Professor Moses is a philosopher of education who specializes in philosophy and education policy studies, with particular expertise in policy disagreements that involve race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, moral and political values, and equality of educational opportunity. Her scholarship focuses broadly on issues of ethics, democracy, and education’s role in promoting the public good. In three current research projects, she is examining the complexities of political strategies to dismantle affirmative action in higher education admissions, what it means to opt out of public education, and the controversies and disagreements over free speech and the diversity of viewpoints on college campuses.
Although her work primarily has used philosophical inquiry, she also has used both quantitative and qualitative methods when the research questions have warranted broader inquiry and analyses. For example, she has collaborated to conduct research concerned with how voters understand race-conscious education policy, which used survey research, qualitative interviewing, and media content analyses.
Professor Moses has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar, was awarded CU Boulder’s Hazel Barnes Prize, and was selected as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. Her work has appeared in journals such as American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Higher Education, and Journal of Social Philosophy. She has presented her work in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, and the United States. In addition, Dr. Moses is the author of Embracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy (Teachers College Press, 2002), co-editor of Affirmative Action Matters: Creating Opportunities for Students around the World (Routledge, 2014), and Living with Moral Disagreement: The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Professor Moses’ editorial experience includes a current term as Associate Editor for Educational Theory, a term as Associate Editor for the Section on Social and Institutional Analysis of the American Educational Research Journal, Reviews Editor for the Journal of Philosophy of Education, and the Editorial Advisory Board Member of Education Policy Analysis Archives. She currently serves on AERA’s Executive Board, AERA Council, and as a fellow of the National Education Policy Center.
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Professor Moses is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2015). She was awarded CU-Boulder’s Hazel Barnes prize (2016), AERA’s Early Career Award (2009) as well as Fulbright Specialist and New Century Scholar awards, AERA Division J’s Outstanding Publication (best article in 2007), AERA Committee on Scholars of Color in Education’s Early Career Contribution Award, and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship.