Background
Moseley, Eva Steiner was born on December 25, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. Came to the United States, 1939. Daughter of Leopold and Isabella (Zetlin) Steiner.
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Eva Steiner Moseley
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Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, 1953. Master of Arts in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Radcliffe College, 1955.
Career
Assistant library, Asia Foundation, San Francisco, 1955-1956;
assistant editor, book review editor, Institute Pacific Rels., New York City, 1956-1959;
library assistant, Bodleian Law Library. and Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford, England, 1965-1967;
freelance editor, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970s;
curatorial assistant Schlesinger Library. History Women in American, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971-1972;
manuscript curator Schlesinger Library., Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1972;
acting director Schlesinger Library., Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994-1995. Oral history interviewer William E. Wiener Oral History Library., American Jewish Committee, 1976-1978.
Member manuscripts and archives committee Harvard University Library. Council, 1987-1994, 95-, member library county, 1994-1995. Archival consultant International Federation University Women, 1982-1987.
Consultant Pembroke center Brown U., 1984.
Achievements
Membership
Founder Harvard Hams, 1977. President Sara R. Ehrmann Foundation, 1980-1983. Trustee American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts, since 1982, secretary, since 1990.
Member advisory committee American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, 1978-1980, board directors, 1980-1984, secretary, 1980-1982, nominating committee, 1981-1983, public education and colloquium committee chair, 1983-1984. Notable women of Boston committee Workingmen's Cooperative Bank, 1979-1980. Chair acquisitions committee Medford (Massachusetts) History Society, 1979-1987, program committee, 1983-1989.
Fellow Society of America Archivists (program committee 1979, manuscript repositories section chair 1979-1980, nominating committee 1981, local arrangements committee 1982, committee on goals and priorities 1986-1989, Distinguished Service award subcommittee 1992-1995). Member Academy Certified Archivists (examination committee 1991-1994), New England Archivists chair program committee 1975, 79, 82, editor newsletter 1975-1978, associate editor 1980-1983, vice president, chair long-range planning committee 1988-1989, president 1989-1990, chair nominating committee 1990-1991, Distinguished Service award 1995), Boston Archivists Group (co-founder 1977, coordinator 1977-1982), Harvard Radcliffe Manuscripts/Archives Group (co-founder 1979, member steering committee since 1980, chair publications committee 1986-1990), Berkshire Conference History Women (panel chair, speaker 1974, 78, 90, 93), Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married George Van Horn Moseley III, (divorced). Children: Alice Jessica, Thomas Evan.
