Amber Roessner
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After graduating from the University of Georgia’s sports studies program in December 2003, Roessner served a full-time sports writer for the Gainesville Times. While at the Gainesville Times, she covered prep sports and University of Georgia football; in addition, she earned a Georgia Associated Press Award for an enterprise piece, which examined the pressures associated with youth sports.
Roessner later served as an associate editor of the Athens Magazine and the editor of Gainesville Life. While working full-time at Athens Magazine and later as a freelance writer, she earned her master’s of arts and doctorate in mass communications at Grady College of Journalism in December 2006 and July 2010, respectively.
As an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee's School of Journalism & Electronic Media, Dr. Roessner teaches media reporting, mass communications history and advanced sports writing. She studies media history and collective memory and has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism History, American Journalism and Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Most recently, she published "Coloring America's Pastime: Sporting Life's Coverage of Race and the Emergence of Baseball's Color Line" in American Journalism and earned the American Journalism HIstorians Association's Joseph McKerns Research Grant Award.
When she’s not involved in these academic pursuits, Roessner also serves as an occasional contributor to local newspapers and magazines, covering health, education and sports. In addition, she enjoys training for half-marathons, hiking along the Appalachian Trail and reading a good book. She's also trying to learn yoga and knitting (but not at the same time).
Doctor of Philosophy, Journalism & Mass Communication, July 2010
University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication, Athens, Ga.
Dissertation: Crafting ‘Your Father’s Idol’: The Sporting Press and the Promotion of Baseball’s Stars, 1900-1928
Advisor: Janice Hume.
Masters of Art, Journalism & Mass Communication, Dec. 2006
University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication, Athens, Ga.
Thesis: Sidelined by Gender—A Textual Analysis of the 2005-06 College Football Bowl Season
Advisor: Leara Rhodes.
Bachelor of Science, Education (Emphasis Sports Studies), Dec. 2003
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Magna Cum Laude graduate, GPA 3.73.
