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Joseph Hill

Professor

Arts and Humanities Deaf Studies

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1401 Hall Memorial Building

Currently Teaching

DST-403

Black Deaf History

Credits: 3

Courses Taught

DST-212 Black ASL (2024/01)(01)
DST-213 Black Deaf Literature (2024/02)(01)
DST-401 Black Deaf Peoples Studies (2024/02)(01)
DST-499 Independent Study (2024/02)(01)
DST-799 Independent Study (2024/02)(01)
DST-403 Black Deaf History (2025/01)(01)

Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

Do deaf communities actually want sign language gloves?
New Trends in ASL Variation Documentation
Hierarchies and Constellations: Language Attitudes and Ideologies of Signed Languages
The Deaf Community's Experiences Navigating COVID-19 Pandemic Information
Overrepresentation of Whiteness Is in Sign Language As Well: A Commentary on ???Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics???
Segregation and desegregation of the Southern schools for the deaf: The relationship between language policy and dialect development
6. Needed Research in American Sign Language Variation
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure
<p>Anything is possible, Tutto ?? possibile: Sociolinguistic Studies in Honor of Ceil Lucas</p>
The Routledge Companion to John Rickford
Signed Language Interpreting Pedagogy: Insights and Innovations from the Conference of Interpreters Trainers
<p>Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts</p>
Culture, Deafness & Music: Critical Pedagogy and a Path to Social Justice
<p>Black ASL: Foundations and Future Directions</p>
<p>An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Structural and Attititudinal Barriers for Deaf Linguists</p>
<p>Systemic Barriers in Human and Social Services and My Insights from My Perspective as a Black Deaf Person</p>
<p>The Significance of History of Racism and Audism: The Influence of Educational and Research Decisions on the Study of Black American Sign Language</p>
Honoring the Legacy of One Mother’s Fight for Her Black Deaf Son’s Education in D.C.- (National Endowments for the Arts)
Deaf Children's Expressive and Receptive American Sign Language Development- (National Institute of Health)

Committees

Janelle Francis-Deaf Studies (Honors) 2024/01-2024/02
Justin Muschette-Communication Studies (Honors) 2024/01-2024/02
Enza Visco-Self-Directed (Honors) 2025/01

Department, Program and Institutional Services

Linguistic Society of America: September 2004
Conference of Interpreter Trainers: November 2014
National Black Deaf Advocates: August 2010
Sign Language Linguistics Society: September 2004

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