As an anthropologist and an archaeologist, she is most interested in the reconstruction of past ritual life and symbolism, identity formation, multivocality of children’s material culture and ethnography of descendant communities. Her research includes the study of children and childhood at the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, formerly interpreted as a “goddess” cult site, where she examined children’s in-house burials and sacred spaces. The discovery of a partially plastered adult skull at Çatalhöyük in 2004 has linked it to similar practices found in Neolithic Jericho, where skull plastering has been suggested as part of ancestor worship. Dr. Moses has also worked on sites in Greece (Graeco-Roman), Mesoamerica (Maya), and Maine (Colonial & Native fishing economy). Her Native American heritage (Apache) informs her approach to oral tradition communities.