Dr. Moss joined the Papers of Andrew Jackson project and the History Department in 2004.  She holds graduate degrees in History and Public History, and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut.  Her research focuses on the political and constitutional history of nineteenth-century America, with a special interest in evolving notions of citizenship and democratic participation.  She was formerly the managing editor of The Encyclopedia of New York State (2005).

Selected Publications

• Review of Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny, by Terry Corps.  Journal of Southern History 74, no. 3 (August 2008): 745
• Assistant editor, The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. VII (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007)
• Managing editor, The Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005)
• “‘He has ravished my poor, simple, innocent wife!’: Perceptions of Gender Roles and Honor in the Murder Trial of George W. Cole.” In Robert Asher et al., eds., Murder on Trial, 1620–2002 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005)