Moseley served at Harvard as instructor and lecturer from 1968 to 1970 and as assistant and associate
professor from 1970 to 1976. He served at the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard as assistant
curator from 1969 to 1973 and as associate curator from 1973 and 1975. He was co-director with Carol J. Mackey of the
Chan Chan-
Moche Valley Project in Peru, a survey and excavation of urban and pre-urban sites in the Moche Valley, from 1969 to 1975, and was advisor to the Instituto Nacional de Arqueologia in reconnaissance of
Tiwanaku and related sites in the north highlands of
Bolivia in 1976 and 1978–1979. He was project director of survey, mapping, and excavation of pre-Hispanic irrigation systems in northern Peru from 1976 to 1980. Moseley was a research associate at the
University of Chicago from 1980 to 1984 and was curator at the
Field Museum of Natural History from 1976 to 1984. Moseley became a professor at the University of Florida in
Gainesville in 1984. He was project director of survey and excavations of historic sites in
Tobago from 1989 to 1992 and senior scientist for Programa Contisuyo, exploration of archaeological sites in the
Department of Moquegua in southern Peru, from 1980 to 2024. Moseley has served on the
editorial boards of the
journals Geoarchaeology (1986–1993),
Latin American Archaeology (1991–1995) and
Review of Archaeology (1987–present). He has been a member of the
National Academy of Sciences since 2000 and is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Dumbarton Oaks Senior Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies from 1983 to 1985 and was a
Guggenheim Fellow during 1988–1989. Moseley was also a research associate of the
Carnegie Museum. ==References==