Joseph Graves Jr.

Joseph L. Graves Jr. is the Interim Dean and Professor of Biological Sciences, Joint School of Nanosciences and Nanoengineering, at North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro. His research concerns the evolutionary genomics of adaptation, particularly as relevant to postponed aging and bacterial responses to nanomaterials. He has also written extensively concerning biological concepts of race in humans. His books on the biology of race are The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium (Rutgers University Press, 2001) and The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America (Dutton Press, 2005). In 1994 he was elected a Fellow of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.