Kelema Lee Moses is an assistant professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of California San Diego. 

Her teaching and research combine historical perspectives with discussions about contemporary issues related to the built environment of the Americas and Oceania. 

Her scholarship appears in Pacific Arts, Ardeth, The Avery Review, Platform, The Contemporary Pacific, American Quarterly, Panorama, eTropic, The Chicago Art Journal, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, and the edited volume Colonial Frames/Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture and Modernity. 

Her research has been supported by a Getty/ACLS Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Black Studies Project at UC San Diego, and the East-West Center at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.  

She is a member of several academic organizations including the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and College Art Association (CAA). She is currently co-chair of the SAH Globalizing Architectural History Education affiliate group and an advisory board member for Hawai'i Non-Linear.