Biography
Dr. Moist teaches courses focusing on journalism, mass media and democracy, communication technology and society, and media and popular culture. His current research project focuses on how rock music and counterculture spread around the world in the 1960s and 1970s. Past research has included publications and conference presentations about collecting as cultural practice (especially record collecting); the music and culture of the 1960s counterculture (folk and rock music, psychedelic concert posters and graphic arts, etc.); and the alternative press in the United States.
Dr. Moist is the Popular Culture Association’s Research Chair for the “Sixties” area, and serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including the Journal of Popular Culture, Popular Music and Society, Rock Music Studies, and the Electronic Journal of Communication. He has a background in music performance and theory, and has been a musician, producer and music writer, as well as running a small LP and CD label.
He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa and taught at the University of Iowa and the Penn State School of Visual Arts before joining the Communications faculty at Penn State Altoona in 2002.