6. Needed Research in American Sign Language Variation Available to Purchase

ceil lucas is professor emerita of linguistics at Gallaudet University and former editor of the journal Sign Language Studies. She has conducted extensive sociolinguistic research on American Sign Language. Her books include Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (with Robert Bay-ley and Clayton Valli; Gallaudet Univ. Press, 2001), Linguistics of American Sign Language, 5th ed. (with Clayton Valli, Kristen Mulrooney, and Miako Villanueva; Gallaudet Univ. Press, 2011), and The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (with Carolyn McCaskill, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill; Gallaudet Univ. Press, 2011). Email: [email protected].

joseph c. hill is an associate professor in the Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, associate director of the Center on Culture and Language, and assistant dean for faculty recruitment and retention at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institutes for the Deaf. His research interests are the sociohistorical and -linguistic aspects of Black ASL and the American Deaf community’s attitudes and ideologies about existing signing varieties. Email: [email protected].

corrine occhino is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work investigates the role of perceptual, linguistic, and social experience on language organization and change. She earned her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of New Mexico in 2016. Email: [email protected].

jami fisher is the director of the American Sign Language and senior lecturer in foreign languages in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current academic interests include finding ways to integrate meaningful, collaborative, community-based activities into ASL and Deaf Studies coursework and documenting and analyzing the Philadelphia variety of ASL. She is a native ASL user and CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), born and raised in Philadelphia. Email: [email protected].

julie a. hochgesang is a Deaf linguist working as a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University. Her research interests include phonetics and phonology of signed languages and language documentation/corpus linguistics of signed languages, particularly ASL. She is primarily responsible for the maintenance of the ASL Signbank. Email: [email protected].

emily shaw is an associate professor in the Department of Interpretation and Translation at Gallaudet University. Her publications include A Historical and Etymological Dictionary of American Sign Language (with Yves Delaporte; Gallaudet University Press, 2014) and Gesture in Multiparty Interaction (Gallaudet University Press, 2019), where she employs an interactional sociolinguistic analysis of two multiparty discourses. Her research interests are grounded in semiotics and embodied discourse. Email: [email protected].

meredith tamminga is an associate professor and graduate chair of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She directs the Language Variation and Cognition Lab and is a lead researcher on the Philadelphia Signs Project. She is an associate editor at Language and associate director of outreach for MindCORE, Penn’s cognitive science hub. She does research in sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and language change. Email: [email protected].