Michele S. Moses
University of Colorado at Boulder

Home page: http://www.michelemoses.com

 
Michele S. Moses is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is affiliated with the Education and the Public Interest Center. She specializes in philosophy, education policy studies, higher education, and ethics. She teaches courses such as Education Policy Theory, School and Society, Gender Issues in Education, and Philosophy of Education.

Her research centers on issues of educational equality and social justice within education policies related to diversity and poverty, such as affirmative action and welfare-to-work policy. Recent articles have appeared in the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, the Journal of Social Philosophy, the Journal of Philosophy of Education, and Educational Policy.

In addition, she is the author ofEmbracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy (Teachers College Press, 2002), winner of the American Educational Studies Association Critic's Choice Award. In an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the roots of the political debates over race-conscious policies like affirmative action that profoundly affect meaningful opportunities for higher education, she is currently examining the nature of persistent moral disagreement over controversial education policies in the United States, as well as the relationship between moral disagreement and theories of justice.

She is a 2007-2008 Fulbright New Century Scholar and was a recent recipient of a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the moral disagreement about affirmative action.