Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, 2023
M.A., Cleveland State University, 2017
J.D., Western Michigan University, Thomas M Cooley Law School
B.A., Baldwin Wallace University
鈥� Memory Studies
鈥� Film Studies
鈥� Psychoanalysis
鈥� Spanish for the Professions
Dr. Laura Callahan holds a BA in Spanish and International Studies from Baldwin Wallace University, a JD from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, an MA in Spanish from Cleveland State University, and a PhD in Romance Languages (Spanish) from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the themes of collective memory, psychoanalysis and memory reconstruction (postmemory and prosthetic memory) through documentary film as related to Argentina and the dictatorship that occurred there 1976-1983. She is also interested in the role of physical space in the context of collective memory, and testimony, particularly from immigrants to the United States and other marginalized communities. She has published several documentaries on YouTube related to the immigrant experience.