As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.
Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.
For this week‘s edition (#1351), Bob has selected Laura Albright’s segment. An assistant professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis, Dr. Albright’s segment examines the life of a former female governor, and shows us how far we still have to go.
Laura Albright is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis: http://www.uindy.edu/cas/history-political-science/faculty Her teaching, research and writing focus on gender and race politics, political campaigns and voters, and women both as candidates and among the electorate. Albright earned her PhD in political science and her MA in women’s studies from the University of Alabama.
Her current research focuses on the life and political career of Alabama’s first and only woman governor, Lurleen Wallace, wife of that state’s controversial former governor, George Wallace, and the only female governor of a U.S. state to have died in office. Professor Albright’s education includes:
– AB in Theatre from the Honors Tutorial College at the Ohio University
– MA in Political Science from the Ohio University
– MPA in Campaign Management from the University of Alabama
– MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Alabama
– PhD in Political Science from the University of Alabama
