Amber Roessner, Editor
Amber Roessner is a professor in the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism & Media. Her most recent book is Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign (LSU Press, 2020). Her 2020 Journalism History manuscript, “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering Structures of Feeling about Women’s Suffrage in 1917 U.S. Newspaper Letters to the Editor,” won the 2021 AEJMC History Division’s Covert Award, an annual award for the best mass communication history article in the previous year. Roessner earned her Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Georgia.
Rachel Grant, Associate Editor
Rachel Grant is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Florida. Her research centers on intersectional media studies, media activism, and historical and contemporary social movements. Her research article “Selling Breonna: Twitter Responses to Breonna Taylor on the Covers of O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair,” won Best Article by the International Communication Association’s Ethnicity, Race in Communication Division in 2022. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journalism Practice, Visual Communication Quarterly, Human Communication Research, and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. She served as chair of AEJMC History Division 2023-2024. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.
Felecia Ross, Book Review Editor
Felecia Ross is an associate professor in the School of Communications at The Ohio State University. Ross’ research interests include the exploration of the relationship between the mass media and traditionally discriminated groups who have been oppressed because of race, gender, age, sexual orientation and physical ability. Her research has focused on the history of the Black press, as well as the way journalism programs have trained students on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her scholarship has appeared in American Journalism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, the Journal of African American History, Journalism History and Journalism. Ross earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.
Carrie Teresa Isard, Digital Media Review Editor
Carrie Teresa Isard is Chair and Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Niagara University. She is the author of Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) and co-curator of The Adolescentia Project digital archive. She has published articles in American Historian, American Periodicals, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Howard Journal of Communications. She has contributed to the Routledge Companion of American Journalism History (Routledge, 2023) and The Adolescentia Project: Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity (Palgrave, 2024). She earned her Ph.D. from Temple University.
Hannah LeComte, Copy Editor
Hannah LeComte began working on her Ph.D. in Public History at George Mason University in fall 2023. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States history, with emphases on women, gender, and sexuality through mass media and collective memory.
Joel Moroney, Editorial Assistant
After 20 years as a newspaper reporter and commercial writer, Joel Moroney earned his master’s degree from the University of Tennessee, and entered the Ph.D. program in fall 2024 with a focus on journalism and media history. His interests include the portrayal of women in World War II newspapers, with a current focus on the Oak Ridge Journal and the Manhattan Project.