James L. Moore III

EHE Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and Executive Director

College of Education and Human Ecology and Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male, The Ohio State University

Dr. James L. Moore III is the EHE Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the College of Education and Human Ecology and the inaugural executive director for the Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male at The Ohio State University. From 2017 to 2022, he served as the university’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion, chief diversity officer, and leader of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (one of the nation’s oldest, largest, and most comprehensive office of its kind). From 2015 to 2017, he served as a program director for Broadening Participation in Engineering in the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), and, during that time, he was one of the program directors who helped launch the highly acclaimed, cross-directorate, NSF INCLUDES, a $100 million plus national broadening participation in STEM initiative. From 2011 to 2015, he was an associate provost for diversity and inclusion at The Ohio State University, where he managed numerous programs and units. Dr. Moore is nationally recognized for his work on African American males, and he has served on The Ohio State University’s faculty, since 2002. His research agenda focuses on school counseling, gifted education, urban education, higher education, multicultural education/counseling, and STEM education. Since 2018, he has been cited annually by Education Week as one of the 200 most influential scholars and researchers in the United States. Dr. Moore has co-edited and co-authored seven books and has published over 170 publications; obtained over $40 million in grants, contracts, and gifts; and given over 200 scholarly presentations and lectures throughout the United States and other parts of the world (e.g., Dominican Republic, Brazil, Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, Canada, England, Spain, China, India, Indonesia, Ireland, and France).