Moore's areas of specialization include Congress, the Supreme Court, civil rights policy, and racial politics. Her recently published book, entitled Governing Race: Policy, Process, and the Politics of Race, examines the effect of racial conflict upon American policy processes. Moore has been awarded a University Picker Fellowship which she will use to complete a major study of inner city school reform politics. She taught at DePaul University, Loyola University, and the University of Minnesota before joining the faculty at Colgate in 1998.