Elizabeth Birr Moje is the Dean of the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture in the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan. Moje teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in secondary and adolescent literacy, cultural theory, and research methods, and was awarded the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize in 2010. Moje is also the Co-Founder of the Marygrove Learning Community: A Detroit P-20 Partnership.
Moje has published five books and numerous articles in journals. Her research projects have been funded by the National Institutes of Health/NICHD, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the International Reading Association, and the National Academy of Education.
Moje is a member of the William T. Grant Foundation Board of Trustees and an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the Reading Hall of Fame. She is a recipient of the Oscar Causey Award for Distinguished Contributions in Literacy Research from the Literacy Research Association (2022); the Senior Career Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Council of Research on Language and Literacy (2023), and the John J. Gumperz Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship from the American Educational Research Association (2024). She was also recognized among Crain’s Detroit Business’s Notable Leaders in Higher Education in 2023.