BA (Willamette), MA (Penn State), PhD (University of Washington)
Jamie Moshin is a part-time instructor in the Contemporary Studies Program. After receiving his BA in sociology and rhetoric at Willamette University in Oregon, Dr. Moshin received an MA in Communication Arts and Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University, and completed a PhD in Communication at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. His dissertation was entitled, “Old Jew, New Jew: Discourse, Appropriation, and Jewishness in a ‘Post-Identity’ Era.” Dr. Moshin was most recently a senior lecturer in the department of Communication and Media, as well as affiliate faculty in Judaic Studies, at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Moshin is currently working on a book-length manuscript about the myriad ways in which every aspect of the Jewish body has become laden with meaning.
Moshin, J. and Crosby, B. (2018). “Liminally White: Jews, Mormons and Whiteness,” Communication, Culture & Critique. Volume 11, Issue 3, 436–454.
Moshin, J. and Thurlow, C. (2019). “Making (up) the News: The Artful Language Work of Journalists in ‘Reporting’ Taboo.” In C. Thurlow (Ed.), The Business of Words: Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers, London: Routledge.
Jackson II, R.L. and Moshin, J. (Eds). (2012). Communicating Marginalized Identities: Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media. (Routledge Series in Rhetoric and Communication). New York: Routledge. Released in paperback, 2014. Book reviews by Cunningham, S. in Men and Masculinities (2014), and Krause, S. in Gender and Language (2014).
Jewishness, Whiteness, discourse, masculinities, Cultural and Critical studies