Corey Moore, professor and founding chair of the department of rehabilitation and disability studies at historically Black Langston University in Oklahoma, has received the 2025 Bobbie Atkins Distinguished Research Award from the National Rehabilitation Association. The award is presented to scholars whose outstanding research has improved services to people with disabilities.
At Langston, Dr. Moore is the founding executive director of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Research and Capacity Building for Minority Entities and the RRTC on Advancing Employment Equity for Multiply Marginalized People with Disabilities. Throughout his career, he has served as the principal investigator on 23 research, training, and service grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education. His work has led to more than 90 peer-reviewed publications that have shaped policy, professional practice, and academic scholarship in disability studies.
Dr. Moore has been a Langston faculty member since 2000. Before joining the HBCU, he was a research assistant professor at the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Persons who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville.
