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Join us on the Beves Terrace (weather permitting) for cocktails before moving into the historic Saltmarsh rooms for a Gala Dinner. Please see the Conference website for more details.

Yolanda Moses, Professor of Anthropoloy/Associate Vice Chancellor-Diversity, Division Of The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of California-Riverside, California, USA

Dr. Yolanda Moses served as President of the American Anthropological Association, Chair of the Board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Past President of City University of New York/ The City College, and President of the American Association for Higher Education. She currently serves as Professor of Anthropology, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Excellence, and Executive Director for Conflict Resolution 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 survey methods. She has explored 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, and South Africa.She is currently involved with several national higher education projects with the National Council for Research on Women, Campus Women Lead and The Women of Color Research Collective. In addition, she is Chair of the National Advisory Board of a multi-year national public education project sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and funded by NSF and the Ford Foundation on Race and Human Variation. See: www.understandingrace.org. More…