Barbara LeMaster
Barbara LeMaster is a linguist and a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on how institutions, language policies and practices, and language ideologies shape language access, variation, and meaning. Her projects involve language documentation, sociolinguistic, and ethnographic analyses of Deaf sign languages in the USA, Ireland, and globally. Her other projects explore gender socialization when teaching pre-school children how to perform as students in a teacher-centered classroom. Her projects have received both Spencer Foundation and National Science Foundation funding.
Dr. LeMaster developed the American Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Cultures (ASLD) B.A., B.A. Option, and Minor programs. As a full professor, Dr. LeMaster is a joint appointee in the Anthropology and Linguistics Departments and a member of the ASLD Program. She enjoys teaching courses in linguistics, in linguistic anthropology, and in global deaf sign languages and cultures.
Coming soon
ANTH 120: Cultural Anthropology
ANTH/LING 170: An Introduction to Linguistics
ANTH 412: Culture and Communication
ANTH 436: Medical Anthropology
ANTH 501: The History of Anthropology Theory (and Contemporary Theory)
ANTH 530/LING 533: Seminar in Ethnography of Communication
ANTH 630: Seminar in Anthropological Linguistics
ANTH 675: Internship in Applied Anthropology
LING 325: Models of Grammar
LING/ANTH 170: An Introduction to Linguistics
LING 425/ANTH 421: Education Across Cultures
LING/EDEL/EDP 431: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Schooling
LING 428: Applied Linguistics
LING 470/ANTH & WST 475: Language and Gender
LING 533/ANTH 530: Seminar in Ethnography of Communication
LING 540: Seminar in Sociolinguistics
LeMaster, B., R. Moges, C. Trueblood. 2007. Gendered Phonology, Morphology, and Animacy in American Sign Language. Presented at the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) meetings in Valencia, Spain in November, 2006; and to be published in the IGALA4 proceedings in 2007.
LeMaster, B. 2006. Language Contraction, Revitalization and Irish Women. In Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 16:2:211-228
LeMaster, B. and L. Monaghan. 2004. “Variation in Sign Languages.” In Alessandro Duranti (Ed.) A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Blackwell Press. Pp. 141-166. Reprinted in Monaghan, Leila (editor), Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication. 2006: 426-430.
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. 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.
