Dr. Diana B. Carlin is professor emerita of communication at Saint Louis University and a retired professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. Her research and teaching interests are in political communication with an emphasis on first ladies, presidential rhetoric and campaigns, political debates, and women in politics. She has taught courses on first ladies at three universities over the past 30 years. For the past four years she has taught a virtual course on first ladies for American University's Women and Politics Institute. She regularly teaches Osher Lifelong Learning courses on first ladies for the University of Kansas and Northwestern University. She is the author or co-author of book chapters on Martha Washington, Julia Grant, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama. She is currently working on a biography of Betty Ford with Myra Gutin. She authored articles for the White House History Quarterly on Sesame Street and first ladies and on the generals' wives (Martha Washington, Julia Grant, and Mamie Eisenhower). She is the co-author with Anita McBride and Nancy Kegan Smith of the first textbook on first ladies, U.S. First Ladies: Making History and Leaving Legacies and Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women. She is a co-founder and current president of the First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE). She lectures and participates in panels on first ladies for local and national organizations either individually or with her co-authors and frequently gives interviews to national and international media on first ladies. Her most recent interview was on the BBC News talking about Melania Trump's documentary. She participated in a discussion of Grace Coolidge and other first ladies with Jenny Harville at the Coolidge Historic Site in 2024 and is scheduled to be at the Truman Little White House in January, Truman Library in March, and the Grant Historic Site in March. Among the sites she and her co- authors have visited in the past two years are the presidential libraries and museums of Gerald R. Ford, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon, and the National Archives.