​Kirsten Travers Moffitt holds a B.A. in Studio Art and received her M.S. from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2011 with a specialization in painted surfaces.  As a student, her projects included conservation and analysis of an 18th c. Damascene ceiling at Doris Duke's Shangri La estate in Honolulu, HI; conservation and analysis of architectural finishes at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL) in Maastrict, NL; conducting architectural paint research with internationally recognized expert Patrick Baty in London; and she won the Association for Preservation Technology's Martin Weaver Scholarship to study architectural paints in Oslo with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU). 

She completed her third year Fellowship at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CW) under the supervision of Edward Chappell and Susan Buck, Ph.D. (independent analyst). After graduation she joined the Foundation and now serves as Conservator & Materials Analyst. She helped establish the Foundation's first scientific analysis laboratory, where she works with conservators, curators, and historic interpreters to conduct scientific research for all collection materials. She has a special interest in historic paint and pigments, particularly those used in architectural settings. She helped organize and co-edited the post-prints for the 6th International Architectural Paint Research Conference in 2017, Micro to Macro: Examining Architectural Finishes (Archetype, 2018). This publication includes her paper “Limewashed Island: Architectural Finishes in Early Bermuda", co-authored with Ed Chappell. Other recent lectures and publications include “Hugh Orr's Orpiment Hue: Paint Analysis Discoveries at the George Reid House" Traditional Paint Journal (August 2021); “Orpiment in Colonial Williamsburg: the Analysis of Yellow Arsenic Sulfides in Historic Housepaints" (Microscopy & Microanalysis 2021 Conference); and “Scheele's Green: The Original Arsenical Green" for the 2022 Inaugural Bibliotoxicology Working Group Symposium. She is a regular lecturer for Atlas Obscura on the topic of architectural paint analysis as a building investigation tool. 

She leads Polarizing Light Microscopy (PLM) workshops to WUDPAC students and co-teaches Cross-section Microscopy with Peg Olley (WUDPAC 2005). She recently presented her experience teaching microscopy at the Inaugural Conference for Conservation Science Education Online (2022) as a panelist and with her poster “Mastering Microscopy: Approaches to Polarized Light Microscopy Instruction."  She has been a (virtual) guest lecturer on the topic of PLM to students at the Garman Art Conservation Program at SUNY Buffalo, and for International Academic Projects (IAP). Kirsten believes strongly that microscopic analysis is key to understanding heritage objects, and she is passionate about sharing this knowledge with conservation students.​​