Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Quantitative Psychology minor, Georgia Institute of Technology 2023

M.S. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology 2020

Biography:

Dr. Kate Kidwell is an Assistant Professor of Management and Business Administration in the Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management at Morgan State University. She received her B.A. in Cognitive Science (University of Pennsylvania), M.S. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (Georgia Tech), and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Psychology (Georgia Tech). Professor Kidwell's research interests are centered on balancing work responsibilities and life obligations, worker health, and understanding careers as a calling and career success. Her research has appeared in Journal of Vocational Behavior, Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, and Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Selected research conferences include the Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Dr. Kidwell teaches courses in Business Professional Development (undergraduate), Business, Ethics, & Society (undergraduate) and Organizational Behavior (undergraduate), and has taught Intro Psychology (undergraduate) and Research Methods (undergraduate) at prior institutions.

Additionally, she has worked as an analyst at Apex Credit Partners (fka Jefferies Finance), servicing large collateral loan obligations with approximately $3.5 billion assets under management. Dr. Kidwell has also served as a member of SIOP's diversity, inclusion, and access committee. She is a member of the Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, SIOP, and the American Psychological Association.

Research Interests:

Work-family health, work-family conflict, calling, career success

Recent Publications:

Kidwell, K. E., Clancy, R. L., & Fisher, G. G. (2023). The devil you know versus the devil you don’t: Disclosure versus masking in the workplace. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 16(1), 55–60. doi:10.1017/iop.2022.101

French, K.A., Allen, T.D., Kidwell, K.E. (2022) When does work-family conflict occur? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 136, 103727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103727  

Calderwood, C., Minnen, M. E., Phetmisy, C. N., Kidwell, K. E., French, K. A., & King, D. D. (2022). Understanding how family demands impair health behaviors in working sole mothers: the role of perceived control over leisure time. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being, 14(2), 362-382. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12307

Fletcher, K. A., French, K. A., Kidwell, K. E., & Burnett, C. E. (2020). Including IO psychology content and principles in classrooms to increase IO visibility. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 13(4), 492-496. https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2020.80