Description
This is Episode #10 of the A-KID-EMIA podcast, the home for parent-scholars looking to balance personal and professional goals. This is the first of an 8-part monthly series generously funded by the American Philosophical Association.
Today, we welcome Catherine Pakaluk, a mom and Associate Professor of economics at Catholic University of America. She tells us how to avoid gaps in your CV while riding the ups and downs of productivity cycles and discerning different academic job types (including negotiating full-rank TT jobs down to part-time).
Chapters
0:00-1:14 - Introduction
1:15-2:52 - Catherine’s background
2:53-6:16 - How parenting can shape research agendas
6:16-10:17 - Identifying tensions between family goals and TT jobs
10:18-13:57 - Tension solution #1: prolonging grad school
13:58-17:27 - Tension solution #2: negotiating a TT job to part-time
17:28-18:30 - Tension solution #3: staggering job applications
18:31-25:05 - Part-time, full-rank jobs (I have followed up with other scholars on the availability of part-time tenure-track jobs here).
25:06-26:45 - Overcoming productivity cycles across the lifespan for men and women
26:46-29:26 - Counterintuitive ways that big families are easier
29:27 - The family-friendliness of SLACs vs. R1s
36:45- The extras needed in life to make everything work
43:40 - How to discern academic jobs
50:50 - Children as a safeguard against hyper-professionalism
52:12-54:06 - CV gaps
