Assistant Professor Kirby Moss
Armory 1B29
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Kirby.Moss@colorado.edu
303-735-2280
303-492-0969 fax

Assistant Professor Kirby Moss, a cultural anthropologist, joined the faculty in 2003. He currently teaches print journalism incorporating cultural analysis and critical theory. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teaching and finishing his first book. The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox was published in 2003 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. His book explores nuanced class dynamics in a mid-western city through the cultural experience of poor Whites suspended in the paradoxical glow of privileged Whiteness. His research interests combine elements of cultural anthropology and journalism in ways that seek to broaden the scope and context of journalism reporting, writing and image construction. Before returning to graduate school, Moss worked for five years as a reporter at the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald and the Austin (Tex.) American-Statesman. He has also written numerous editorial columns in several newspapers. He holds a BA in journalism from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, an MA in cultural anthropology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.