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Dr. Moseley was born and raised in the Los Angeles area and lived there until college when he moved south to attend the University of California, at San Diego. He spent his years there playing guitar in garage bands, and studying cognitive psychology. He graduated from U.C.S.D. in 1988 with a degree in psychology and moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in music. By 1992, he had more accurately re-evaluated his chances for long-term success in the music business, and moved to Santa Barbara to pursue his doctorate in education at U.C. Santa Barbara. It was there that he met and began working with Mary E. Brenner, a cognitive anthropologist studying math education. It was she and other faculty there, who would introduce him to the merging of culture and cognition that would become a regular theme in his program of research. He was able to integrate these perspectives of culture and cognitive science when he designed curriculum for a research project targeting underachieving Latino students in pre-algebra classes. His most recent research has been working with fourth graders to help them understand rational number by working with two curricula that he designed to emphasize either ratio or fractional perspectives of the domain. He is now also interested in studying rational number through international comparisons.