Elizabeth Birr Moje Explained

Elizabeth Birr Moje
Other Names:	Elizabeth Moje
Alma Mater:	Purdue University
Thesis Title:	Using literacy to learn chemistry: An ethnography of a high school chemistry classroom
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1194761596
Thesis Year:	1994

Education

Moje received her B.A. from Concordia University Ann Arbor in 1983 and her M.A. from Eastern Michigan University in 1990. From 1990 until 1994 she taught at Lutheran High School in Denver, Colorado.^[1] Her high school teacher career centered on teaching science, history, and serving as the director of drama. She earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1994.

Career

From 1994 until 1997 Moje was an assistant professor at the University of Utah. She then moved to the University of Michigan where she was named the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in 2004. In 2016 she was named the dean and George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education.^[2] In 2010 The National Writing Project conducted an annotated bibliography for Moje, recognizing her contributions to the field of content area literacy.^[3]

Selected publications

• Book: Lewis . Cynthia . Enciso . Patricia . Moje . Elizabeth B. . Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy . Routledge . Mahwah, N.J . 2007 . 978-0-8058-5696-5 . ocm76794774. ^[4]
• Birr Moje . Elizabeth . Overby . Melanie . Tysvaer . Nicole . Morris . Karen . 2008-04-01 . The Complex World of Adolescent Literacy: Myths, Motivations, and Mysteries . Harvard Educational Review . en . 78 . 1 . 107–154 . 10.17763/haer.78.1.54468j6204x24157 . 0017-8055 . 2743424 . 19756223.
• Moje . Elizabeth Birr . 2015-06-01 . Doing and Teaching Disciplinary Literacy with Adolescent Learners: A Social and Cultural Enterprise . Harvard Educational Review . 85 . 2 . 254–278 . 10.17763/0017-8055.85.2.254 . 1943-5045.
• Moje . Elizabeth Birr . January 2022 . Remaking Research Tools: Toward Transforming Systems of Inequality through Social Science Research . Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World . 8 . 237802312210816 . 10.1177/23780231221081694 . 2378-0231. free .
• Book: Afflerbach . Peter P. . Enciso . Patricia . Lesaux . Nonie K . 2011-03-17 . Handbook of Reading Research. IV . 312–345 . Moje . Elizabeth Birr . 2024-05-14 . Routledge . 10.4324/9780203840412-22 . 978-0-203-84041-2.

Honors and awards

In 2012 Moje was elected as a fellow to the American Educational Research Association.^[5] In 2014 Moje was appointed to the National Academy of Education,^[6] and in 2018 she was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame.^[7] Moje was the 2022 recipient of the Oscar S. Causey Award.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elizabeth Birr Moje WorldCat.org . 2024-05-14 . search.worldcat.org . en.
2. Web site: Elizabeth Birr Moje University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education . 2024-05-14 . marsal.umich.edu . en.
3. Web site: May 28, 2010 . An Annotated Bibliography for Elizabeth Birr Moje . https://web.archive.org/web/20200808153926/https://archive.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3168 . August 8, 2020 . 2023-12-04 . National Writing Project.
4. Review of Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy
   • de Oliveira . Janaina Minelli . 2010 . Review of Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power . Discourse Studies . 12 . 2 . 269–271 . 24049830 . 1461-4456.
5. Web site: 2012-03-30 . American Educational Research Association Elects New Fellows . 2024-05-14 . Women In Academia Report.
6. Web site: Elizabeth Moje . 2024-05-14 . National Academy of Education . en-US.
7. Web site: Elizabeth Birr Moje (Inducted 2018) Reading Hall of Fame . 2023-12-03 . www.readinghalloffame.org.
8. Sullivan Palincsar . Annemarie . 2023 . Elizabeth Birr Moje, 2022 Oscar S. Causey Award Winner . Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice . en . 72 . 1 . 23–25 . 10.1177/23813377231201456 . 2381-3377.