Michaela Callaghan

Michaela Callaghan is a PhD student involved with the Institute’s Social Memory and Historical Justice: How Democratic Societies Remember and Forget the Victimisation of Minorities in the Past project. Michaela’s research project investigates non-verbal forms of recording and transmitting memory through dance. Michaela completed a combined Honors Degree in Latin American Studies and Spanish at La Trobe in 2007. Her honors thesis focused on the political uses of indigenous identity in Bolivia. This project examines the ways in which the Quechua people of the Peruvian Andes have employed traditional dance and music as a means of remembering and (re)connecting with a pre-colonial past, and as a way of reclaiming and re-crafting a traditional indigenous identity. It also examines the relationship between individual and collective memories in recalling key events, such as the Civil War in Peru.

   
Office: EW202
Phone: 61+ 3 9214 4807
Email: mcallaghan@swin.edu.au