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Amber Roessner interviewed former President Jimmy Carter as part of her research for her book in progress, Jimmy Who: Jimmy Carter and the Practice of Presidential Press and Promotion in the First Post-Watergate Election

Amber Roessner, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media, interviewed former President Jimmy Carter as part of her research for her book in progress, Jimmy Who: Jimmy Carter and the Practice of Presidential Press and Promotion in the First Post-Watergate Election, due to be published by LSU Press in 2017.   Amber recently received American Journalism's Rising Scholar Award for 2014.   She is organizing a March 26, conference at UT on Ida B. Wells, featuring keynote speaker Mia Bay of Rutgers University.  Stay tuned for more details.