Moore teaches American and European Art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of, among other writings, Empire on Display: San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, and John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art 1880-1915. Her research interests include turn-of-the-twentieth century visual culture of the United States with an emphasis on world's fairs, national identity, institutional history, and art in the public sphere.