Category: Academic Minute
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Commissioner’s Choice Award: Lesley Shipley, Randolph College – Contemporary Art Reactions
This is Best of Week on The Academic Minute: For the Commissioner’s Choice Award: Lesley Shipley, assistant professor of art history at Randolph College, detailed how we react to art. My research and teaching interests are in modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on identity, feminism, activism, and abstraction in art since 1960. Currently,…
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Most Popular Segment Award: Joseph Ferrari, DePaul University – Procrastination
This is Best of Week on The Academic Minute: For the Most Popular Segment Award: Joseph Ferrari, professor of psychology at DePaul University, discussed how everyone procrastinates, but not everyone is a procrastinator. Joseph Ferrari is a professor of psychology in DePaul University’s College of Science and Health. A procrastination researcher, Ferrari is the author…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.12.23)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.12.23 Monday, December 23rd Carin Robinson of Hood College delves into encouraging women to run for political office. Tuesday, December 24th Lisa Koops of Case Western Reserve University discusses how music can break down hierarchical barriers in a family. Wednesday, December 25th Lisa Bitel of the University of Southern…
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The Academic Minute for 2019.12.16-12.20
The Academic Minute from 12.16 – 12.20 Monday, December 16th Jessica Cox – Franklin & Marshall College Codeswitching Jessica Cox researches the relationships between language and cognitive abilities in multilinguals. She has also studied factors that influence second-language learning including previous language-learning experience, working memory, and cognitive aging. She holds a PhD in Spanish Linguistics…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.12.16)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.12.16 Monday, December 16th Jessica Cox delves into how those who speak multiple language at home early on have an advantage later in life. Tuesday, December 17th Elizabeth De Santo discusses how to protect the high seas. Wednesday, December 18th Carlota Batres examines disgust sensitivity in relation to your…
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The Academic Minute for 2019.12.09-12.13
The Academic Minute from 12.09 – 12.13 Monday, December 9th Pablo Palomino – Oxford College of Emory University Latin American Music Pablo Palomino is a cultural historian of modern Latin America. He is Licenciado from the University of Buenos Aires and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and was postdoctoral lecturer at the University…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.12.09)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.12.09 Monday, December 9th Pablo Palomino delves into how music can give an area a cultural identity. Tuesday, December 10th Kenneth Carter discusses how some people thrive during chaotic and thrill-seeking experiences. Wednesday, December 11th Nick Fesette examines imprisonment and freedom through artistic expression. Thursday, December 12th Alix Olson…
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The Academic Minute for 2019.12.02-12.06
The Academic Minute from 12.02 – 12.06 Monday, December 2nd Andrea Lanoux – Connecticut College A New Vision of Russian Childhood Through Literature Andrea Lanoux teaches Russian language at all levels and courses on Russian literature and culture. She has team-taught courses on gender in communist and post-communist societies (with Amy Dooling), on European Modernism…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.12.02)
Connecticut College Week on The Academic Minute 2019.12.02 Monday, December 2nd Andrea Lanoux delves into how Russian children’s literature changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. Tuesday, December 3rd David Canton discusses Lawrence Reddick and the second generation of black historians. Wednesday, December 4th Michelle Dunlap examines the minority experience in consumer marketplaces. Thursday,…
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The Academic Minute for 2019.11.25-11.29
The Academic Minute from 11.25 – 11.29 Monday, November 25th John Duffy – University of Notre Dame Writing and the Public Discourse John Duffy is Professor of English and the O’Malley Director of the University Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame. In his most recent book, Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the…