Ohio State’s James Moore III Honored by the American Educational Research Association

James E. Moore III is the Education and Human Ecology Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. He also serves as the inaugural executive director of the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male.

Dr. Moore has been selected to receive the Scholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award from the American Educational Research Association. This award is given to scholar of distinction who received a doctorate more than a decade ago. Dr. Moore also is the winner of the Dr. Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship from the Multicultural/Multiethnic Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.

Professor Moore is a graduate of Delaware State University, where he majored in English education. He earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in counselor education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.