This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.02.10)

This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.02.10

Monday

Anya Jabour, Regent’s professor of history at the University of Montana in Missoula, examines how motherhood was a big topic in the news in the last year.

Tuesday

Leia Minaker, associate professor in the school of planning at the University of Waterloo, examines how junk food is marketed to kids in stores and restaurants.

Wednesday

Jeanette Tran, associate professor of English at Drake University, explores going “no-contact” with family in the context of King Lear.

Thursday

Magdalene Isabel Smith, PhD student in Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California Dornsife, discusses what lies beneath the permafrost in the Arctic.

Friday

Hafsa Kanjwal, associate professor of South Asian History at Lafayette College, examines how an oppressed people who gain independence, could end up becoming the oppressor of others.