Education:
1969-73, Westfield High School, Westfield, NJ Biology; 1973‑77, Oberlin
College A.B., Biology, Concentration in Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology; 1977‑79, University of Lowell, MS Program Department of Biological
Sciences and The Center for Tropical Disease; 1979‑83, University of
Michigan Ph.D. Program, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology;
1985‑88, Wayne State University Ph.D. Awarded Dec. 15, 1988 Department
of Environmental, Evolutionary and Systematic Biology
Fellowships and Scholarships:
1973‑77, Rotary Club
Scholarship, Westfield NJ; 1973‑77, Oberlin College Academic
Scholarship; 1978, Josiah P. Macy Foundation Fellowship, Marine
Biological Laboratory; 1979‑82, National Science Foundation Minority
Fellowship, University of Michigan; 1985‑86, Thomas Rumble Graduate
Fellowship, Wayne State University; 1986, B‑Haley Fellowship, Wayne
State University, Department of Biological Sciences; 1988‑89,
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California.
Winter 2007
Dr.
Joseph Graves, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Environmental, Evolutionary and
Systematic Biology from Wayne State University in 1988. From 1990-2004,
he held appointments at the University of California, Irvine; Arizona
State University-West, holding a joint appointment in African American
Studies at ASU-Main, and as University Core Director at Fairleigh
Dickinson University.
In
1994, he was elected a Fellow of the Council of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his pioneering work in
establishing the genetic and physiological controls of aging. In April
2002, he received the ASU-West award for Scholarly Research and Creative
Activity. He has also been Secretary for the Division on Integrating and
Comparative Issues in the Society of Integrative and Comparative
Biologists, as well as a member of the external advisory board for the
National Human Genome Center at Howard University. He is a member of
“The New Genetics and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” discussion group,
sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. In May
2006, he keynoted the “Faith Forum on Genetics” sponsored by the
National Institutes of Health, the Oregon Ecumenical Council, and
Pacific Institute of Bioethics. In the fall of 2006, he lectured on
racial medicine at the European Social Research Council Genomics Policy
and Research Forum, at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
His
research concerns the evolutionary genetics of postponed aging and
biological concepts of race in humans, with over fifty papers and book
chapters published, and appearances in six documentary films on these
general topics. He has been a Principal Investigator on grants from the
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the
Arizona Disease Research Commission. His books on the biology of race
are entitled: The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race
at the Millennium, Rutgers University Press, 2001, 2005 and The
Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America, Dutton Press,
2004, 2005.
He has
been a leader in addressing the under representation of minorities in
science, directing successful programs in California and Arizona.
Finally, he has been an active participant in the struggle to protect
and improve the teaching of science in the public schools. His hobbies
include basketball, volleyball, and chess.
Documentary Films and Television
Life and Times (Scientific Discoveries),
KCET Public Television, Dr. Joseph L. Graves, Jr., January 1993, by
Robert Dean, Director Special Projects, KCET television.
“Black Britain, The Faster Race”,
for the British Broadcasting Company, September 9, 2000.
“The Death Clock”, October 2000, “Genetics of Cloning”,
November 2000, FOX 10 Arizona.
“Race: America’s Original Science Fiction, Presentation for Phoenix City
Council Faces of Diversity Series, Cox 11 Community Access, January
2001.
The Emperor’s New Clothes, Tony Brown’s Journal, PBS, April 13, 2002.
“Race: Power of an Illusion”,
A Three Part Documentary from California News Reel Inc., by Larry
Adelman, Public Broadcasting System, Spring 2003.
The Race Myth,
Tony Brown’s Journal, PBS, January 25, 2005.
Lucy’s Daughter,
Tony Brown’s Journal, PBS, February 2007.
Publications
Social Construction of Race
Graves, J.L., (2008) Basketball,
for Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Macmillan Social Science
Library USA, Volume a-f, pp. 158-163.
Graves, J.L., (2008) Boxing, for
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Macmillan Social Science
Library USA, Volume a-f, pp. 236-243.
Graves, J.L., (2008) Civil War
Politics, for Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Macmillan Social
Science Library USA, Volume a-f, pp. 334-339.
Graves, J.L., (2008) Hans Eysenck,
for Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Macmillan Social Science
Library USA, Volume a-f, pp. 450-451.
Graves, J.L., (2008) Track and
Field, for Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Macmillan Social
Science Library USA, Volume s-z, pp. 144-152.
Graves,
J.L., (2007) “Niggers: Old and New”,
A response to: “Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones…” Airbrushing the
Ugliest of Ugly in African American Children’s Books, in Once Upon a
Time in a Different World, Neal Lester, ed., (Routledge
Press, 2007).
Graves, J.L. and Rose, M.R. (2006),
Against Racial Medicine, Patterns of Prejudice, Sander Gilman
editor, Vol. 40(4-5): 481-494.
Graves, J.L., What we know and what
we don’t know: Human Genetic Variation and the social construction of
race, for Is Race Real?, a collection of essays solicited by The
Social Science Research Council, edited by Craig Calhoun, President
Social Science Research Council, April 6, 2005.
“Race” for The Encyclopedia of
the World’s Minorities, Robin L. Rone, Commissioning Editor, Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers, 919 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 760, Chicago, IL
60611, publication date November 2004.
Graves, Jr., J.L., The Race Myth:
Why We Pretend Race Exists in America, New York, NY: Dutton Press,
soft cover 2005.
Graves, Jr., J.L., The misuse of life history theory: J.P. Rushton and
the pseudoscience of racial hierarchy, in J. Fish, Ed., Understanding
Race and Intelligence, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 43 –
57, 2002.
Graves, Jr., J.L., The Last
Battlefield: Biological Theories of Race and the Future of American
Society, in L. May, S. Collins-Chobanian, and K. Wong, Editors; Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, (New York: Prentice Hall,
2002, pp. 422-433).
Graves, Jr., J.L., What a
tangled web he weaves: Race, reproductive strategies, and Rushton’s life
history theory, Anthropological Theory, 2(2): 131-154, Sage
Publishers, 2002.
Graves, Jr., J.L., Scylla and Charybdis: Adaptationism,
reductionism, and the fallacy of associating race with disease, in
Rachel Ankeny and Lisa Parker, Eds. Medical Genetics: Conceptual
Foundations and Classic Questions, Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2002.
Graves, J.L., Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teaching
the Biological and Social Construction of Race, in Bonnie Tu-Smith, Ed.,
Race in the Class Room: Politics and Pedagogy, New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Graves, J.L., The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological
Theories of Race at the Millennium, Rutgers University Press,
2001; 2nd printing 2005.
Graves, Jr., J.L. and T. Place, Race and IQ revisited:
Figures never lie, but often liars figure, Sage Race Relations
Abstracts Vol. 20(2):4-50, 1995.
Graves, Jr., J.L., Science, undergraduate education, and
African American students in the 21st century, Perspectives 25(2)70-88, 1995.
Graves, Jr., J.L. and Johnson, A., The pseudoscience of Psychometry and
the Bell Curve Special Issue: Myth and Realities: African Americans and
the Measurement of Human Difference, The Journal of Negro Education
Vol. 64(3):277-294, 1995.
Graves, Jr., J.L., Evolutionary biology and human variation: Biological
determinism and the mythology of race, Race Relations Abstracts
18(3):4-34, Sage Publishers, 1993.
Genetics of Aging
Luckinbill L.S., J.L. Graves, A.H. Reed, and S. Koetsawang (1988b)
Localizing the genes that defer senescence in Drosophila melanogaster,
Heredity 60:367‑374.
Graves J.L., Luckinbill, L.S., and Nichols, A.. (1988) Flight duration
and wing beat frequency in long‑ and short‑ lived Drosophila
melanogaster, J. Insect Physiol. 34:1021‑1026.
Graves, J.L. and Rose, M.R. (1990) Flight duration in
Drosophila
melanogaster selected for postponed senescence, in Genetic
Effects on Aging II, Telford Press, Caldwell, N.J.
Rose, M.R., J.L. Graves, and E.W. Hutchinson. (1990) The use of
selection to probe patterns of pleiotropy in fitness characters. In
Genetics, Evolution, and Coordination of Insect Life Cycles,
Springer‑Verlag, Berlin.
Graves, J.L., E. Toolson, C.M. Jeong, L.N. Vu, and M.R. Rose. (1992)
Desiccation resistance, flight duration, glycogen and postponed
senescence in Drosophila melanogaster. Physiological Zoology
65(2):268-286.
Mueller, L.D., J.L. Graves, and M.R. Rose (1993) Interactions between
density-dependent and age-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster.
Functional Ecology 7:469-479.
Graves, J.L. and L.D. Mueller (1993) Population density effects on
longevity. Genetica vol. 91 pp. 99-109.
Graves, J.L. (1993) The costs of reproduction and dietary restriction in
mammals, Growth, Development, and Aging 57(4):233-249.
Graves, J.L. (1997) Chapter 4. General Theories of Aging:
Unification and Synthesis, in Principles of Neural Aging. Pp.
35-55. Eds. Sergio F. Dani, MD., Akira Hori, MD., and Gerhard F. Walter,
MD, Ph.D. Elsevier Press.