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California State University, Long Beach - Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics

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EDUCATION

Degrees	University	Department	RESEARCH FOCUS	year
Postdoctoral Fellowship Anthropology	University of California, Los Angeles	Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences	Medical Anthropology	1994
Ph.D. Anthropology	University of California, Los Angeles	Department of Anthropology	*The Maintenance and Loss of Female and Male Signs in the Dublin Deaf Community* Thesis Advisor: Paul Kroskrity, Ph.D.	1990
M.A. Anthropology	University of California, Los Angeles	Department of Anthropology	Marking Ethnic Identity in Signed Conversations Thesis Advisor: Paul Kroskrity, Ph.D.	1983
B.A.	University of California, Berkeley	Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology	Honors Thesis Advisor: John Gumperz, Ph.D.	1979
Certification
C.S.C. (Comprehensive Skills Certificate)	Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf, Inc.

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LANGUAGES

American Sign Language, Irish Sign Language, spoken French

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EMPLOYMENT IN ACADEMIA

teaching

courses taught

committee work

research experience

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teaching

Position	University	Department	Duration
Professor	California State University, Long Beach	Anthropology & Linguistics	2004-present
Associate Professor	California State University, Long Beach	Anthropology & Linguistics	2001-2004
Assistant Professor	California State University, Long Beach	Linguistics & Anthropology	1997-2001
Full-Time Lecturer	California State University, Long Beach	Anthropology & Lingusitics	1996-1997
Part-Time Lecturer	California State University, Long Beach	Linguistics	1991,1992
Part-Time Lecturer	California State University, Long Beach	Anthropology	1988-1994
Teaching Assistant	University of California, Los Angeles	Anthropology, & Psychology Departments, & the Honors College	1984-1988
Teaching Assistant	University of California, Berkeley	Linguistics	1977

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courses taught

Teaching Fellow

American Sign Language
Biological Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Introductory Psychology
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Honor's College. (taught 3 times)

Undergraduate Courses (click on highlighted classes for syllabi)

Intro to Linguistics (Anthro/ Ling170)
Culture and Communication (Anthro 412IC)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Anthro 120)
Models of Grammar (Ling 325)

Combined Graduate and Undergraduate courses

Language and Gender (Anthro/Wst 475/Ling 470)
Education Across Cultures (Anthro 421/Ling 425)
Medical Anthropology (Anthro 436)
Applied Linguistics (Ling 428)

Graduate courses

The Development of Anthropological Theory (Anthro 501)
Ethnography of Communication (Ling 533/Anthro 530)
Internship (Anthro 675)

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committee work

*Anthropology*	*Linguistics*
Graduate Committee	Curriculum Committee and former Chair
Grade Appeals Committee	TESL Lecturer Search Committee
Faculty Merit Increase Award Committee	Linguistics MA Comprehensive Exam Committee
Awards Committee Chair	Faculty Merit Increase Award Committee
Graduate Student Advisor (1999-2000)	Graduate Student Advisor (2000-2001)
Applied Anthropology Search Committee Chair (2001)

College and University Committees

CLAD Academy

ITEP Social Science Committee

CLA Joint App. Committee

GE Revitalization Theme Committee

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Research-related work history

Position

University and Department

Duration

Postdoctoral Fellow in

Medical Anthropology

Neurop. Institute in the Department of Psych. Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

1993-1994

Medical Anthropology Research focus:

Effects of medical intervention on women's reproductive health experiences. Worked with large corpus of interview and quantitative data comparing class (mostly lower and middle-class, with a few upper class women in the sample), ethnicity (Latinas, and Euro-Americans) and religion (Catholic and non-Catholic Christians).

Research Assistant

(Assisted Dr. Wendell Oswalt in the revision of the workbook to accompany his textbook, Life Cycles and Lifeways)

Anthropology Department,

University of California,

Los Angeles

1985

Research Assistant

( Assisted Dr. Carol Padden in a literacy study through investigation of children's fingerspelling in American Sign Language)

Communications Department,

University of California,

San Diego

1984

Research Assistant

(Assisted Dr. Nancy Henley in studies on language and gender)

Psychology Department,

University of California,

Los Angeles

1983

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PUBLICATIONS

LeMaster, B. 2006. "Language Contraction, Revitalization and Irish Women." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 16:2:211-228

LeMaster, B. and L. Monaghan. 2006. “Variation in Sign Languages.” Reprinted in Monaghan, Leila (editor), Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication. Pp. 426-430.

LeMaster, B. and L. Monaghan. 2004. "Variation in Sign Languages." In Alessandro Duranti (Ed.) A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology.

Blackwell Press. Pp. 141-166.

LeMaster, B. 2003. "School Language and Shifts in Irish Deaf Identity." In Leila Monaghan, Constance Schmaling, Karen Nakamura, and

Graham Turner (Eds.), Many Ways to be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. Pp. 153-172.

LeMaster, B. 2002. What Difference does Difference Make?: Negotiating gender and generation in Irish Sign Language. In Benor, S., Rose,

M., Sharma, D., Sweetland, J, and Q. Zhang (eds.). Gendered Practices in Language. Stanford, California: CSLI Publications. Pp. 309-338.

LeMaster, B. and M. Hernandez-Katapodis. 2002. Learning to Play School: The Role of Topic in Gendered Discourse Roles among Preschoolers.

In Benor, S., Rose, M., Sharma, D., Sweetland, J, and Q. Zhang (eds.). Gendered Practices in Language.

Stanford, California: CSLI Publications. Pp. 213-236.

LeMaster, B. "Reappropriation of Gendered Irish Sign Language in One Family." Visual Anthropology Review. Volume 15,

Number 2 Fall/Winter 1999-2000.

Press, N., C. H. Browner, D. Tram, C. Morton, & B. LeMaster. 1998c. "Provisional Normalcy and "Perfect Babies": Pregnant Women's Attitudes

Toward Disability in the Context of Prenatal Testing." In: Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation.

Sarah Franklin & Helena Ragoné (Editors). University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia.

LeMaster, B. 1998a. "Irish Deaf Identity." In Sign Language Communication Studies: The Quarterly of the Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies.

Published by the Japanese Institute for Sign Language Studies, an affiliate organization of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf. This

paper has been translated into the Japanese language. 1998.9, No. 29, pp. 12-19.

LeMaster, B., Megan Hitchcock, Orlando Sanchez, Tina Werner. 1999. "Breaking the Silence: Teaching

children how to participate in structured teacher-student interactions." Published in Engendering

Communication, the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Berkeley Women and Language

Conference, April 24-26, 1998.

LeMaster, B. 1998 "Irish Deaf Identity." In Sign Language Communication Studies: The Quarterly

of the Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies. Published by the Japanese Institute for

Sign Language Studies, an affiliate organization of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf.

This paper has been translated into the Japanese language. Volume 1998.9, No. 29, pp. 12-19.

Press, N., C. H. Browner, D. Tram, C. Morton, & B. LeMaster. 1998. "Provisional Normalcy and

"Perfect Babies": Pregnant Women's Attitudes Toward Disability in the Context of

Prenatal Testing." In: Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological

Innovation. Sarah Franklin & Helena RagonÈ (Editors). University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia.

LeMaster, B. 1997. "Sex Differences in Irish Sign Language." In: The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in

Honor of William Bright. Jane H. Hill, P. J. Mistry, Lyle Campbell (Editors) Mouton De Gruyter

LeMaster, B. 1996. Book review of Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community solicited by and published in Language and Society,

Volume 26, No. 3, pp. 433-436.

LeMaster, B. 1996. "The Ethics of Data." Published in the American Anthropological Association newsletter, May 1996.

LeMaster, B. 1993 "When Women and Men Talk Differently: Language and policy in the Dublin deaf community," for

Irish Towns and Cities: Anthropological Perspectives on Urban Life, T. Wilson, H. Donnan, C. Curtin (editors).

The Queen's University of Belfast: Belfast, Ireland.

LeMaster, B. & J. Dwyer, (1991) Guest Co-Editors of Sign Language Studies journal, Volume 73, Winter 1991, Linstok Press: MD.

LeMaster, B. (1990). The Maintenance and Loss of Female and Male Signs in the Dublin Deaf Community.

Doctoral Dissertation. UCLA: CA.

LeMaster, B. (1986) "The Deaf and Hearing Worlds: Language, identity and mediation." Link,

August pages 3-8, National Association of the Deaf, the Republic of Ireland.

LeMaster, B. & S. Foran. (1986) "The Irish Sign Language." The Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness,

McGraw-Hill:NY.

Padden, C. & B. LeMaster. (1985) "An Alphabet on Hand: The acquisition of fingerspelling in Deaf Children."

Sign Language Studies, volume 47, Linstok Press:MD.

LeMaster, B. (1977) "The Education of the Deaf: A sub-community in the making."

Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, volume 49, University of California, Berkeley: CA.

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PRESENTATIONS

2006	"Preschool Communication without Gender" paper to be presented at the 4th International Gender and Language Association meetings in Valencia, Spain
2006	"Gendered Phonology in Irish Sign Language" poster to be presented at the 4th International Gender and Language Association meetings in Valencia, Spain with two CSULB graduate students: Rezenet Moges (Anthropology), and Christopher Trueblood (Linguistics).
2006	"Representing Language and Gender Scholarship in the Classroom" workshop to to be presented at the 4th International Gender and Language Association meetings in Valencia, Spain with Amy Sheldon.
2006	"When Does Gender Matter in Preschool Communication" to be presented at the 103rd American Anthropological Association meetings in San Jose, November.
2005	“A theoretical framework for the analysis of sign languages globally: The Case of Ireland,” presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Washington, DC, in December in a session I organized.
2005	“Positioning the Gaze: Ideological Constructions of Gendered ISL was to be presented at the 102^nd American Anthropological Association meetings in San Francisco, California, in November. In Session called, “The Gendering of Contracting Languages and their Uses” organized by Jillian Cavanaugh and Katherine Hoffman. With the cancellation of the AAA meetings in SF, this session has moved to the AES meetings in San Diego, CA, April 9, 2005.
2004	“The Political Economy of Gendered Irish Sign Language (ISL): Going beyond the lexicon” for presentation at the 3^rd International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) meetings at Cornell University, June 2004.
2003	Presentation of research for CSULB Faculty Dinner Club in President Maxson’s garden in May 2003.
2003	“How does gender come to matter in school interaction?” Invited presentation for Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) at UCLA in the Fall, 2003. See url - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/speakers.htm
2003	“The Political Economy of Gendered Irish Sign Language” presented at the Language, Gender, and Political Economy workshop at the University of Toronto. (Participation by invitation only.)
2003	“Negotiating Gendered Boundaries, Sociocultural Practices, and Ideologies in Deaf Ireland” presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Chicago, Illinois, in November. In Session called, “Crossing Talk: Transgressing gendered borders through linguistic practices” organized by Andra M. Jacobs and Chantal Tetreault.
2003	“The Political Economy of ‘Erasure’ in Gendered Irish Sign Language” presented at the CSULB International Brown Bag, 11/12/03.
2002	“The Political Economy of Community Discourses shaping the Role of Gendered Irish Sign Language Over Time” presented at IGALA in April, Lancaster University, England.
2002	“The Role of Gender in Playing School when you don’t Speak the Language” presented with Jennilee Yoon and Nikole Lobb at IGALA in April, Lancaster University, England.
2002	“Research on gendered ISL from 1984 to 2002” invited lecture given at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.
2002	“Best Teaching Practices,” invited talk at the CSULB sixth annual GESI (General Education Summer Institute), August 20,2002.
2002	“The Semiotic and Linguistic Ideological Context of Change in Irish Sign Language” to be presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 2001.
2002	“The Role of Gender in Multilinguistic Preschools,” presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 2001 in a poster session with Nikole Lobb and Jennilee Yoon.
2001	“Anthropological Linguistics and Deaf Language Policies in the U.S.A. and Ireland: Public Debates and our Possible Roles” presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Washington, DC.
2001	Poster on preschool research findings presented with Jennilee Yoon at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Washington, DC.
2000	“When Schools Divide People by Gender: A study of female and male signs in Irish Sign Language”, presented to the Linguistic Anthropology Lab at UCLA, May 16, 4-6 p.m.
2000	“Learning how to be Gendered Beings in Preschool: The 30% Rule in Public Discourse does not always apply.” Presented with Mary Katapodis at the International Gender and Language Association Meetings, at Stanford University in May.
2000	“What Difference does Difference Make?: The Transmission of Female and Male Irish Sign Language over time.” .” Presented at the International Gender and Language Association Meetings, at Stanford University in May.
2000	“Changes in Irish Sign Language,” presented in a public lecture at the St. Joesph’s Deaf Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Sponsored by the Irish Deaf Society (IDS)
2000	“Doing Research with Irish Deaf People: A focus on Gendered Irish Sign Language.”A presentation given in the CSULB Fall Anthropology Colloquium series, November 2.
2000	"The Question of Scholarly Engagement in Deaf Ireland," presented in a session called, "Language Movements and the Question of Scholarly Engagement", at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, California, November, 2000.
2000	"The role of Literacy in Irish Deaf Identity," written by LeMaster & Coogan, in a session called, "Global Disclosure and Local Values: Cases from Hearing and Deaf Communities", at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Fransisco, California, November, 2000
2000	"Lexical Differences in gendered Irish Sign Language," presented to the UCLA Lignuistics Lab, February, 2000.
1999	"Language Movements in Deaf Ireland" presented in a panel called "Linguistic Futures: Language Movements in Comparative Perspective" at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Chicago, Illinois, November, 1999.
1999	"Many Ways to be Deaf: Exploring Irish Deaf Identity." A guest lecture given at U.C.L.A. in May.
1998	“Contact Communities: Exploring the Interaction between Community Type & Linguistic Structure in Deaf Communities around the World,” in Poster session, “Sites of Interpretation: Communities, Spaces, Places. Presented at the 96t h Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in December.
1998	"Breaking the Silence: Teaching preschool children how to participate in structured teacher-student interactions." Presented at the Fifth Annual Berkeley Women and Language Conference, April 24-26, 1998.
1998	"Girls be Silent, Boys Make Noise." Presented March 5, 1998 for CSULB Women's Resource Center to celebrate Women's History Month.
1998	“Breaking the Silence.” Presented at the CLA Dean’s Brown Bag.1998 in preparation for the Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Given with co- presenters Orlando Sanchez & Tina Werner.
1998	"Gender and Communication: Considerations for Teaching Assistants." Given for the Women and Sicentific Literacy Project for teaching assistants in the Biology Department. Given at CSULB Center for Faculty Development January 21, 1998.
1997	"Feminine Silence: Learning How to use Silence in Preschool." To be presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, Washington, D.C. I am also the organizer and chair of the session, "The Emodiment of Feminine Voices" in which this paper will be presented. (I will co-author this paper. Co-authors yet to be determined from SPEAK research group.)
1997	"Irish Deaf Identity." To be presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, Washington, D.C. The session focuses on deaf identity in communities around the world. The local deaf community will be invited to attend this session, particularly the Gallaudet University community.
1996	"Moving Beyond the Deaf/Hearing Ethnic Dichotomy." Presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, San Francisco.
1996	"Language and Identity Revisited: Moving from homogeneous heterogeneity to complex multiplicity." Session organized by me at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, San Francisco.
1996	"Cultural Differences in how pregnant women view disability, and their effects on termination decisions." Presented at the CSULB conference, "Women In Action: Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century," March 29, 1996.
1995	"The Ethics of Data." Presented at the Special Event, "Ethics in the 21st Century: New Directions for Linguistic Anthropology, at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 16, 1995, Washington, D.C.
1995	"Pregnant Women's Perceptions of Disability and their Implications for Prenatal Testing." Presented at the 6th Annual Long Beach Research Symposium conference, November 17, 1995, sponsored by Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, CSULB, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach.
1995	"Doing Applied Anthropology means Meeting Community Needs." Presented at the Southern California Applied Anthropology Network, California State University, Fullerton, October 1995.
1994	"Discourse as a Site of Struggle" Presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December, Atlanta, Georgia.
1993	"How Prenatal Testing for Disability is Transforming the Foundational Meanings of Reproduction in America." Presented by co-author at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 18, 1993, Washington, D.C.
1992	"Language and Identity: The exploration of universal versus culture-specific sign language varieties." Fourth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. UC San Diego 5-8 August, 1992.
1992	"Bilingualism in the United States and the constitutional amendment to make English our nation's official language." Presented for the Human Development program (sponsor) at California State University, Long Beach.
1991	Paper on gossip presented to a conference on women in anthropology at CSU, Sacramento. Presented with Fitzpatrick, and Meriwether.
1990 1991 1992	Panel Presentation on Perinatal Bereavement for Resolve Through Sharing Bereavement Counselor Certification Training at Memorial Hospital of Long Beach.
1990	Chair of double session, "Linguistic Variation in Deaf Sign Languages." 88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New Orleans).
1990	"The Distributional Knowledge of Female and Male Signs in Dublin, Ireland." 88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New Orleans).
1990	"Language Variation is Normal: The use of American Sign Language in the Classroom." Ethics in Deaf America: Education and Language. California State University, Northridge.
1988	"Can Men use women's language? An investigation of cross-gender linguistic knowledge." 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Phoenix).
1987	"The Loss of Women's Sign Language in Dublin, Ireland: A signal of social identity shift." Southwestern Anthropological Association meetings (Bakersfield, California).
1987	"Female and Male Signs in the Dublin Deaf Community: A preliminary investigation of their linguistic and sociolinguistic differences." Fourth International Sympoisium on Sign Language Research (Finland - paper delivered by colleague).
1987	"Some Quantitative and Qualitative considerations of Gender Language differences in Dublin, Ireland." 86th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Chicago).

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

The emergence and maintenance of ethnic, cultural, and gender identities in historical and ethnographic contexts, specifically examining the use of resistance and power in unequal social relationships.

Includes interest in general practices and discourses of social control, and the dynamic interaction of disadvantaged and minority people in situations of unequal social relationships.

Includes interest in the effects of educational language policies on group structure and language use.

Includes interest in the expression of gender, ethnicity, and cultural identity through language variation.

Descriptive linguistic, and sociolinguistic analyses of Deaf sign languages.

Ethnographies of Deaf communities.

Gender socialization in schools.

Contexts of research: Educational and Community settings.

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AWARDS AND HONORS

Year	Title
2004	Recipient of the CSULB Wang Nomination for Social and Behavioral Sciences
2004	CSULB Mini-Grant (for ISL project)
2003-2005	National Science Foundation (NSF) (extended to 2006 with supplement pending)
2003	Recipient of the CSULB Wang Nomination for Social and Behavioral Sciences
2003	CSULB Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award (for release time)
2002	CSULB Scholarly and Creative Achievement Mini-Grant (for ISL project)
2001-2002	Distinguished Teaching Faculty Award (University level)
2001	CSULB Scholarly and Creative Achievement Mini-Grant (for preschool project)
2000- 2001	Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant,
2000	CSULB College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Scholarly and Creative Activity Award
1998-1999	CSULB Faculty Merit Increase (FMI)
1999	CSULB Faculty Career Enhancement Award
1999	Department Chair's selection for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Anthropology
1997-1998	Department Chair's selection for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Linguistics
1996-1997	Department Chair's selection for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Linguistics
1996-1998	CSULB Faculty Merit Increase (FMI)
1998	CSULB CLA Scholarly and Creative Activity Award
1998	CSULB Faculty Career Enhancement Award
1996-1997	CSULB Performance Salary Increase
1993-1994	UCLA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
1986-1988	UCLA Anthropology Department Fellow
1986-1987	UCLA Distinguished Scholar
1985-1986 1987-1988	UCLA Anthropology departmental doctoral dissertation research grant
1985-1986	University Women's Club Merit Scholarship
1985-1986	Social Science Research Council Alternate
1985-1986	American Association of University Women Alternate
1983-1984 1985-1986	Teaching Assistant Positions (department award)
1986	UCLA Research Grant
1984-1985	Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship
1982	UCLA Anthropology Departmental Research Grant
1983-1984	Outstanding UCLA Graduate Students' Association Representative
1982	UCLA Travel Grant for conference participation
1976	National Interpreter Training Consortium Scholarship, California State University, Northridge

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Position	Location	Duration
ASL-Engish Free-lance Interpreter	free-lance interpreter in the greater Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. areas.	1976 - Present
ASL-English Interpreter and Consultant	Office for Students with Disabilities, UCLA; UCLA Extension	1980-1988
National Association of the Deaf (NAD)	Silver Spring, MD	1979-1980
Communicative Skills Program (CSP)		1979-1980
National Symposium on Sign Language Research and Teaching Executive Secretary (NSSLRT)		1979-1980

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COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES & PROFFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Volunteer assistance to the Perinatal Bereavement Group at Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, 1990-present.
On the Board of Directors, Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness, 1988.
Member of the Community Advisory Board for the Deaf Studies Program at California State University, Northridge, 1987.
Member of Advisory Committee to Graduate Dean on development of UCLA deaf student recruitment, development of deaf support services, and development of deaf-issues research group, 1986-1987.
Co-Founder & Co-Coordinator of Deaf Research Group, 1986-1988.
Invited graduate student participant, "Game Theory and the Ethnography of Speaking." University of California, San Diego, June, 1987.
Awarded UCLA Distinguished Scholar Award by the UCLA Alumni Association
Awarded UCLA Outstanding Graduate Student
Graduate Students' Association (GSA) appointee to the University Policies Commission (UPC), UCLA, 1983-1986.
Chair of the University Policies Commission; Chair of UPC sub-committee on Student Conduct Code of Procedures revision; Ex-Officio member of Judicial Review Committee; Chair of Anthropology GSA Space Allocation Committee, 1984-1985.
Co-founder & Co-Coordinator of UCLA Linguistic Anthropology Colloquium, 1981-1984.
Cultural Protocol Advisor for the World Games of the Deaf, 1983.
Anthropology GSA representative to the UCLA Anthropology Faculty Executive Committee, 1982.

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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