Events
The Gestalt of the Feminine Soul: A Primer on Edith Stein, on Woman
A lecture by Prof. Catherine Pakaluk (The Catholic University of America)
When:
November 17, 2025 | 7:30 PM EST
Location:
Thayer 144
Chapter:
United States Military Academy
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an economist and associate professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Pakaluk is author of the widely acclaimed ethnography Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth (Regnery, 2024), a multidisciplinary account of American women choosing to have large families against the global trend to sub-replacement fertility. Her work has been reviewed or covered in The New Yorker, Slate, The Atlantic, The Times (of London), The Wall Street Journal, Freakonomics Radio, NPR, Fox News, and more. Pakaluk received the 2015 Acton Institute's Novak Award, a 2023 Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize from The Heritage Foundation. She earned a doctorate in economics at Harvard University, where she studied with Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart. She is married to American philosopher Michael Pakaluk with whom she raised fourteen children: six from Michael’s previous marriage to pro-life activist Ruth VK Pakaluk, deceased in 1998, and eight from their marriage in 1999.