Professional Summary
Callaghan is a third-year PhD student in Classical Archaeology. She received her MA in Classics from the University of Iowa in 2021. She received her BA with honors from the same institution in 2019. Callaghan’s primary research interests lie in urbanization and industrial production in the Roman provinces. In particular, she is interested in the creation and reuse of Imperial sculpture, its role in urban building programs, and its communicative function in the empire.
Callaghan has participated in excavations in both the United States and the Mediterranean. For the past two years, she has participated in the University of Cincinnati's excavations at the Roman site of Tharros on Sardinia.