Research and Publications

 

Conferences Organized:

Sign Languages as Endangered Languages.  FORTHCOMING 2011, Norway.

Sign Language Rights: European and International Perspectives February 2011.  Norway.

Difference as diversity: emerging perspectives on Deaf-gain, disability, and physical diversity as an enhancement of the human condition. April 2010. Washington, D.C. Organized two-day seminar with researchers affiliated with Oxford University, Gallaudet University, and others.

Publications:

Co-editor with Dirksen Bauman for The New Normal: Deaf-gain and the Future of Humanity.  Manuscript to be sent to press in 2011.

“Taking a Transnational Approach to Deaf History” in Hedberg, Tomas, ed.  No History: No Future.  Sveriges Dövhistoriska Sällskap.  In press.

“How the Past Informs the Present: Intersections of Deaf History with Deaf Studies,” with Brian Greenwald, Deaf Studies Today! Fourth Biennial Conference.  In press.

“Deaf Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Deaf-gain and the Future of Deaf Studies,” with Dirksen Bauman. Oxford Handbook on Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Volume 2. Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Deaf Gain and the Future of Deaf Studies,” with Dirksen Bauman.  Deaf Studies Digital Journal 1:1, Fall 2009.  November 4, 2009. http://dsdj.gallaudet.edu/

“International Signs” for the Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, Akira Iriye and Pierre Yves Saunier, eds. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

“Co-Equality and Transnational Studies: Understanding Deaf Lives,” in Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Speaking Dirksen Bauman and Benjamin Bahan, eds. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

“A Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin: The Transnational World of Deaf Americans, 1880-1924.” Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Iowa, 2007.

“Genetics: A Future Peril Facing The Global Deaf Community,” in The Deaf Way II Reader: Perspectives from the Second International Conference on Deaf Culture Harvey Goodstein, ed. Gallaudet University Press, 2006.

“Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922).” Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA- Sage Reference, 2006. 162-163.

“Deaf, History of the.” Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA- Sage Reference, 2006. 345-349.

“Gallaudet, Edward Miner (1837–1917).” Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA- Sage Reference, 2006. 756-757.

“Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins (1787–1851).” Encyclopedia of Disability. Ed. Gary L. Albrecht. Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA- Sage Reference, 2006. 757-758.

“’True Love and Sympathy’ The Deaf-Deaf Marriages Debate in Transnational Perspective.”  In Genetics, Disability, and Deafness John Vickrey Van Cleve, ed.  Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2004.