Roland S. Moore

Candidate statement

Roland S. Moore, Ph.D., is Center Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, CA [ https://prev.org/person/roland-s-moore-phd/ ]. His doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley’s Anthropology Department focused upon the cultural repercussions of economic change including tourism work and rural-urban migration in Central Greece. In 1988, Dr. Moore was named honorary citizen of Arachova in Boeotia. His present research interests concern the prevention or reduction of problems connected with the use of alcohol, commercial tobacco, and other drugs in community settings (such as American Indian reservation communities) and occupational contexts (e.g., military workplaces). Accordingly, the vast majority of his publications concern public health [ https://prev.org/research2/publications/?fwp_search_publications=Moore ]. A Life Member of the MGSA, Dr. Moore continues to follow developments in MGS with great interest. He was a Lecturer at the Center for Modern Greek Studies, San Francisco State University between 1997 and 2011. He also served as Book Review Editor for the Social Sciences, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2013-2016. Cluttering your inbox, he has served as coordinator of the MGSA-L email list for decades, which is why you might recognize his name.