Eva Moseley

Eva Steiner Moseley (born 1931), is an American curator and archivist. She has served as the curator of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moseley has written on women in archives and has been involved in many institutions and organizations in at least administration level. Moseley has been involved with the Society of American Archivists as Council Member (1984–1987), served on multiple committees, and a frequent contributor and editor of the American Archivist.

Early life and education Moseley was born on December 25, 1931, to Leopold and Isabella Steiner in Vienna, Austria. She and her family came to the United States in 1939 as refugees. She went on to Radcliffe College for her Master of Arts in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, graduating in 1955.

Career Since graduating with her Masters, Moseley has held various positions in libraries and archives around the world. She has also served as editor and contributor to journals and publications over her career. Some of her past employers include: Asia Foundation (San Francisco), Boolean Law Library and Institute of Commonwealth Studies (Oxford), and most notably, her roles as curator and director at Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College, where she served from 1970 until her retirement in 1999. In her work, Moseley often considers the impact of feminism on history and archives and reflects the uncertainty of women's history when it was still a new field. However, she embraces the new field of women's history as "a welcome challenge, rather than an irritating distraction from collecting and research on the big names, female or male, of history." She notes the responsibility of archivists to preserve women's papers, while reluctant to be radical as an 'activist archivist.' "Skirting History: Holocaust Refugee to Dissenting Citizen," Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2022.

Recognition A festschrift in honor of Moseley, A Sampling of Innocent Documents: Essays Dedicated to Eva Steiner Moseley, was published by Radcliffe College in 1999.