+++
# About/Biography widget.
widget = "about"
active = true
date = "2016-04-20T00:00:00"
# Order that this section will appear in.
weight = 5
# List your academic interests.
[interests]
interests = [
"Political Communication",
"Politics of Risk Perception",
"Political Parties"
]
# List your qualifications (such as academic degrees).
[[education.courses]]
course = "PhD in Political Science"
institution = "[Queens University](https://www.queensu.ca), Kingston, Canada"
year = 2008
[[education.courses]]
course = "MA in Political Science"
institution = "[Queen's University](http://www.queensu.ca), Kingston, Canada"
year = 2004
[[education.courses]]
course = "BA (Hons.) in Political Science"
institution = "[University of Alberta](http://www.ualberta.ca), Edmonton, Canada"
year = 1999
[[education.courses]]
course = "Exchange Semester"
institution= "[Philipps-Universität Marburg](http://uni-marburg.de), Germany"
year= 1997
+++
# Biography
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[FYI, if you edit this with three backticks on their own line at the beginning and end, the forum software will post the literal text instead of parsing it as Markdown.]
I downloaded a copy of the theme and searched for where it displays the education fields from the front matter (layouts/partials/widgets/about.html). The institution field is included literally, like so:
<p class="institution">{{ .institution }}</p>
To parse embedded Markdown, you need to add markdownify: