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
