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Consider This… 2016 Post-Elections

Thursday, Dec. 1 | 6:30 – 8 p.m.
George Watts Hill Alumni Center, Chapel Hill

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What happened on Nov. 8, and what are the issues to consider moving forward? A variety of North Carolina voices, including four UNC professors, offered their thoughts on the 2016 election results. The discussion ranged far and wide as panelists represented a variety of areas. The panel was moderated by Ferrel Guillory, a UNC faculty member and former editorial page editor at The News & Observer. View the panelists’ bios below.

Ferrel Guillory - Moderator

Ferrel Guillory is professor of the practice in UNC’s School of Media and Journalism. He is founding director of the UNC Program on Public Life, which has worked to bring University scholarship to bear on the public agenda and leadership in North Carolina and the South.  Guillory is a co-founder of EducationNC, a nonprofit organization, launched in January 2015, devoted to covering and analyzing public education news in North Carolina. Through MDC Inc. a Durham-based nonprofit, at which he is a senior fellow, Guillory has co-authored eight The State of the South reports (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010-11, 2014).  He also co-authored the book, The Carolinas: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: An Exploration of Social and Economic Trends, 1924-1999 (Duke Press, 1999). Before academia, Guillory spent more than 25 years as a newspaper and magazine journalist. During his time at The News & Observer in Raleigh, he was the newspaper’s state capital columnist, Washington correspondent and editorial page editor.

W. Hodding Carter III

Hodding Carter III was professor of leadership and public policy at UNC and has extensive experience in journalism, politics and government, and higher education. A graduate of Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, he came to Chapel Hill after retiring as president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is chair of the UNC Press Development Council, a member of the faculty’s Honorary Degrees Committee and is involved in several projects and programs in UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South. Nationally, Carter is best remembered as the spokesman for the U.S. State Department during the Iran hostage crisis in the late 1970s. He has written two books and contributed to numerous others, including most recently After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy and Security in the Information Age, a collection of essays edited by Ronald Goldfarb. More.

Becki Gray

Becki Gray is senior vice president for the John Locke Foundation. She provides information, consultation, and publications to elected officials, government staff, and other decision makers involved in the state public-policy process.  She directs JLF’s biannual Candidate Education project.

Gray writes a monthly column for Carolina Journal. She is a regular panelist on NC Spin and frequently appears on News Channel 14’s Capitol Tonight. You’ve heard her on talk radio – she’s a regular guest on People and Politics, Carolina Journal Radio, WTSB, WWNC and WLLM and featured on Carolina Newsmakers. Her op-eds have been published in newspapers across the state. Gray frequently speaks to civic and political groups across North Carolina about public policy and legislative issues.

Recognized as a leader, Gray was in the first class of the E.A. Morris Fellowship for Emerging Leaders and is a member of the American Enterprise Leadership Network.  She served on the Local Government Subcommittee of the Mining and Energy Commission and on the State’s Superintendent of Education’s Career-Ready Commission. She serves on the Board of Trustees at the N.C. Museum of Art, chairing the finance committee. You can follow her on twitter at @beckigray.

William Leuchtenburg

William E. Leuchtenburg is UNC’s William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of history and a renowned scholar of American political history. He is the author of more than a dozen books and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award for historical writing of enduring public significance. Leuchtenburg recently served as a consultant for the major renovation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at Hyde Park. He has worked with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on Burns’ films for more than 30 years, including The Roosevelts, in which Leuchtenburg appears several times. He wrote the presidential election analysis for NBC on election nights and covered presidential inaugurations for three other networks. For Bill Clinton’s first inaugural address in 1993, Leuchtenburg was at the CBS anchor desk with Dan Rather and Charles Kuralt ’55. In December 2015, Leuchtenburg published his most recent work, The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill ClintonMore.

William Marshall

William Marshall, Kenan Professor of law at UNC, was deputy White House counsel and deputy assistant to the president during the Clinton administration. He has served as solicitor general of Ohio and  has published extensively on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, federal courts, presidential power, federalism, and judicial selection matters. At UNC, he teaches civil procedure, constitutional law, election law, first amendment, federal courts, freedom of religion, the law of the presidency, and media law. Marshall received his law degree from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a native of Nashua, N.H.

Sarah Treul Roberts

Sarah Treul Roberts is assistant professor of political science at UNC, specializing in American political institutions, with an emphasis on the Congress and courts. She earned her undergraduate degree in political science and psychology from Wellesley College and her master’s and doctorate (both in political science) from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the voting behavior of U.S. senators, bicameralism and state delegations in Congress. She is working on a project analyzing how a decline in state economic interests has contributed to polarization in Congress. Some of Truel’s publications include Assessing Strategic Voting in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primaries: The Role of Electoral Context, Institutional Rules and Negative Votes. Public Choice, 161 (December 2014): 517-536, with D. Sunshine Hillygus; Competitive Primaries and Party Division in Congressional Elections. Electoral Studies, 35 (September 2014): 140-149, with Caitlin E. Jewitt; and Indirect Presidential Influence, State-level Approval, and Voting in the U.S. Senate. American Politics Research, 40 (March 2012): 355-379, with Caitlin E. Dwyer. More.

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