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California State University, Long Beach - Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics
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| Degrees | University | Department | RESEARCH FOCUS | year |
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Anthropology |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
Medical Anthropology
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1994 |
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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 |
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M.A. Anthropology |
University of California, Los Angeles |
Department of Anthropology |
Marking Ethnic Identity in Signed Conversations Thesis Advisor: Paul Kroskrity, Ph.D. |
1983 |
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B.A. |
University of California, Berkeley |
Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology |
Honor's Thesis Advisor: John Gumperz, Ph.D. |
1979 |
| Certification | ||||
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C.S.C. (Comprehensive Skills Certificate) |
Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf, Inc. |
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LANGUAGES
EMPLOYMENT IN ACADEMIA
| teaching | courses taught | committee work | research experience |
| Position | University | Department | Duration |
| Associate Professor | California State University, Long Beach | Anthropology & Linguistics | 2001-Present |
| Assistant Professor | California State University, Long Beach | Linguistics & Anthropology | 1997-2001 |
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Full-Time Lecturer
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California State University, Long Beach | Anthropology & Lingusitics | 1996-1997 |
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Part-Time Lecturer
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California State University, Long Beach | Linguistics | 1991,1992 |
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Part-Time Lecturer
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California State University, Long Beach | Anthropology | 1 |
| Teaching Assistant | University of California, Los Angeles | Anthropology, & Psychology Departments, & |
1984-1988 |
| Teaching Assistant |
University of California, |
Linguistics | 1977 |
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)
| 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) |
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College and University Committees |
| CLAD Academy |
| ITEP Social Science Committee |
| CLA Joint App. Committee |
| GE Revitalization Theme Committee |
| Position | University and Department | Duration |
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Anthropology |
Neurop.
Institute in the Department of
Psych.
Biobehavioral Sciences, |
1993-1994 |
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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). |
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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 |
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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 |
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Research Assistant (Assisted Dr. Nancy Henley in studies on language and gender) |
Psychology Department, University of California, Los Angeles |
1983 |
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LeMaster, B. and L. Monaghan. 2004. “Variation in Sign Languages.” In Alessandro Duranti (Ed.) A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Blackwell Press. Pp. 141-166. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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LeMaster, B. "Reappropriation of Gendered Irish Sign Language in One Family." Visual Anthropology Review. Volume 15, Number 2 Fall/Winter 1999-2000. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 RagonČ (Editors). University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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LeMaster, B. (1990). The Maintenance and Loss of Female and Male Signs in the Dublin Deaf Community.
Doctoral Dissertation. UCLA:
CA. |
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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. |
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LeMaster, B. & S. Foran. (1986) "The Irish Sign Language." The Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness,
McGraw-Hill:NY. |
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Padden, C. & B. LeMaster. (1985) "An Alphabet on Hand: The acquisition of fingerspelling in Deaf Children."
Sign Language Studies, volume 47, Linstok Press:MD. |
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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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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. |
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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 |
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2000 |
"Lexical Differences in gendered Irish Sign Language," presented to the UCLA Lignuistics Lab, February, 2000. |
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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. |
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1999 |
"Many
Ways to be Deaf: Exploring Irish
Deaf Identity." A guest
lecture given at U.C.L.A. in May. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1998 |
"Girls be Silent, Boys Make Noise." Presented March 5, 1998 for CSULB Women's Resource Center to celebrate Women's History Month. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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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. |
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1996 |
"Moving Beyond the Deaf/Hearing Ethnic Dichotomy." Presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November, San Francisco. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1995 |
"Doing
Applied Anthropology means Meeting Community Needs."
Presented at the Southern California Applied Anthropology Network,
California State University, Fullerton, October 1995. |
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1994 |
"Discourse as a Site of Struggle"
Presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, December, Atlanta, Georgia. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1991 |
Paper
on gossip presented to a conference on women in anthropology at CSU, Sacramento.
Presented with Fitzpatrick, and Meriwether. |
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1990 1991 1992 |
Panel Presentation on Perinatal Bereavement for Resolve Through Sharing Bereavement Counselor Certification Training at Memorial Hospital of Long Beach. |
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1990 |
Chair of double
session, "Linguistic Variation in Deaf Sign Languages."
88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New
Orleans). |
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1990 |
"The
Distributional Knowledge of Female and Male Signs in Dublin, Ireland."
88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (New
Orleans). |
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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. |
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1988 |
"Can Men use
women's language? An investigation
of cross-gender linguistic knowledge."
87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
(Phoenix). |
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1987 |
"The Loss of
Women's Sign Language in Dublin, Ireland: A
signal of social identity shift." Southwestern
Anthropological Association meetings (Bakersfield, California). |
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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). |
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1987 |
"Some
Quantitative and Qualitative considerations of Gender Language differences in
Dublin, Ireland." 86th Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Chicago). |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The emergence, maintenance, and loss of ethnic, cultural, and gender identities in historical and ethnographic contexts
Includes interest in general practices and discourses of social control
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
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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Year |
Title |
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2000- 2001 |
Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant, |
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2000 |
CSULB College of Liberal Arts (CLA) Scholarly and Creative Activity Award |
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1998-1999 |
CSULB Faculty Merit Increase (FMI) |
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1999 |
CSULB Faculty Career Enhancement Award |
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1999 |
Department Chair's selection for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Anthropology |
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1997-1998 |
Department Chair's selection for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Linguistics |
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1996-1997 |
Department Chair's selection for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Linguistics |
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1996-1998 |
CSULB Faculty Merit Increase (FMI) |
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1998 |
CSULB CLA Scholarly and Creative Activity Award |
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1998 |
CSULB Faculty Career Enhancement Award |
| 1996-1997 | CSULB Performance Salary Increase |
| 1993-1994 | UCLA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
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1986-1988 |
UCLA Anthropology Department Fellow |
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1986-1987 |
UCLA Distinguished Scholar |
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1985-1986 1987-1988 |
UCLA Anthropology departmental doctoral dissertation research grant |
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1985-1986 |
University Women's Club Merit Scholarship |
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1985-1986 |
Social Science Research Council Alternate |
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1985-1986 |
American Association of University Women Alternate |
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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 |
| Position | Location | Duration |
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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 |
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.
