Catherine Callaghan | |
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Born | October 31, 1931 |
Died | March 16, 2019 | (aged 87)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Linguist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | Mary Haas |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Penutian languages, Utian languages |
Catherine "Cathy" Callaghan (October 31, 1931 – March 16, 2019) was Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. [1] [2]
She received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Her doctoral dissertation was a grammar of Lake Miwok, [3] written under the supervision of Mary Haas. She then started work on the Lake Miwok Dictionary, which was published in 1965. [4] She was appointed Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University in 1965 and remained there until her retirement. [5] [6] She was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1969. [7]
Throughout her career Callaghan's research focused on the Penutian languages of California, especially connections between Yokuts and Miwok. She appeared briefly in the documentary, How Dead do I Look?, [8] which was filmed in 2014. Her papers on Miwok Languages are collected at the California Language Archive. [9]
In 1973, Callaghan co-founded Feminists for Life, an anti-abortion feminist non-profit. [10]
Callaghan died on March 16, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. [11] [12]