Wilson J. Moses obtained his A.B. and M.A. in British Literature at
Wayne State University, and his Ph.D. in American Civilization at Brown University. He held the Walter L. Ferree professorship in the middle period of American History at Pennsylvania State University before that, and he currently is Professor Emeritus at Penn State. He has in the past held a series of posts at other American Universities:
Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth, 1982; Revised edition: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1993,
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Bernard E. Powers Jr., "Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey". Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004." in History of Intellectual Culture, 2007, Vol. 7, No. 1: 1–4.
Robert S. Levine, "Elegant Inconsistencies: Race, Nation, and Writing Wilson Jeremiah Moses's Afrotopia" in American Literary History (2008) 20 (3): 497–507.
Tommy Lott and John P. Pittman, eds., A Companion to African-American Philosophy. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. pp. 89–91