Core faculty

Megan Callaghan, Visiting Professor of Anthropology

Megan Callaghan began teaching at Bard in August 2005, after earning a
B.A. from Princeton University in 1997 and a Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan in 2005. Her academic interests include youth, urban and spatial
theory, gender and feminism, and ethnographic representation. Professor
Callaghan conducted two years of fieldwork in Belfast, Northern Ireland,
focusing on young Catholics, their use of public space, and their
relationship to local authority in the years following the 1998 peace
agreement. She has given a number of conference presentations on
topics such as graffiti, joyriding, and punishment beatings. Professor
Callaghan's research has been supported by grants from the German
Marshall Fund of the U.S., the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the National
Science Foundation. She was also awarded a National Science
Foundation graduate fellowship. She has taught at the University of
Michigan and Simon's Rock College of Bard, as well as in Bard's Language
and Thinking Program.

Phone: 845-758-7431
E-mail: callagha@bard.edu