Leah C. Geer. 10 September 2016

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1 Leah C. Geer 10 September 2016 Education Ph.D., Linguistics August May 2016 Advisor: Richard Meier M.A., Linguistics with Honors August May 2010 Gallaudet University, Washington, DC Advisors: Gaurav Mathur & Paul Dudis B.S., Kinesiology, with Honors August December 2007 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Honors and Awards The University of Texas at Austin 2016 Deaf Artists Residency at The Anderson Center at Tower View (June 2016) 2015 Broadening Participation of Deaf Students in Sign Language Research award to attend the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research conference in Melbourne, Australia. January ($4000) 2015 William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award nominee 2014 Graduate School Professional Development Award 2014 Carlota S. Smith Memorial Fellowship award (Department of Linguistics) ($1400) 2014 Funding to attend the 9 th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (lrec); Reykjavík, Iceland. May ($1400) 2013 Funding to attend the 10 th Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (alt); Leipzig, Germany. August 2013 (900 / $1160) 2012 Department funding for Qualifying Paper project: Fingerspelling in ASL: Examining Age of Acquisition Effects 2012 Graduate School Professional Development Award Gallaudet University 2010 nsf scholarship to attend the 3L Summer School for Language Documentation & Description, University of Leiden; Leiden, The Netherlands 2010 Graduate Student Achievement Award (university-wide) 2010 Outstanding Linguistics Graduate Student Award 2009 Small Grants award to fund pilot project: ASL Fingerspelling: Comparing Native and Nonnative signers New Mexico State University 2006 James B. and Peggy M. Delamater & Friends Student Scholarship for Physical Education, Recreation & Dance Educational programs NSF Science of Learning Center for Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL 2 ) Gallaudet University; Washington, DC September May 2016

2 p. 2 3L Summer School for Language Documentation & Description University of Leiden; Leiden, The Netherlands July 2012 Professional Experience California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA Assistant Professor: American Sign Language & Deaf Studies August Present Writing Consultant: University Writing Center August May 2016 Teaching Assistant January - May 2016 Professor: Dr. Nora England Teaching Assistant June May 2012 Lecturer: Carol Seeger Assistant Instructor July December 2015 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Graduate Research Assistant; ID-Gloss Project September August 2012 PI: Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut), in collaboration with Boston University, Gallaudet University, and The University of Texas at Austin Journal publications Establishment of a Phonemic Clustering System for American Sign Language (2013) Gregory A. Witkin, Donna A. Morere & Sign Language Studies. 14(1); Kinship in Mongolian Sign Language (2011) Sign Language Studies. 11(4); Conference proceedings Exploring factors that contribute to successful fingerspelling comprehension (2014) Proceedings of the Ninth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (lrec 14). Sources of Variation in Mongolian Sign Language (2012) Proceedings from the 20 th Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (salsa). pp Linking an ID-gloss database of asl with child language corpora (2012) Julia Fanghella,, Jonathan Henner, Julie Hochgesang, Diane Lillo-Martin, Gaurav Mathur, Gene Mirus & Pedro Pascual Villanueva Proceedings of the 5 th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon at Language Resources and Evaluation (lrec 12). pp

3 p. 3 Book Reviews Formational Units in Sign Languages (Sign Language Typology) (2012) Rachel Channon and Harry van der Hulst (eds) de Gruyter Sign Language & Linguistics 15(2); Conference presentations Teaching ASL Fingerspelling to second-language learners: Explicit versus Implicit Phonetic Training Linguistics Society of America (LSA) Conference. Austin, TX. 5-8 January, (forthcoming) Development of Explicit Versus Implicit Phonetic Training for Adult-learners of ASL High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM November, (forthcoming) Improving Fingerspelling Comprehension in Second Language Learners of ASL Texas Language Education Research (TexLER) Conference. University of Texas, San Antonio February, Understanding fingerspelling comprehension Jonathan Keane & Leah C. Geer 12 th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference. Melbourne, Australia. 5 January, Kortugal is not a country in Europe: Lessons from L2 ASL learners Leah C. Geer islc Conference: Eighth Annual Inter-Science of Leaning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference San Diego, CA. June, Exploring factors that contribute to successful fingerspelling comprehension Ninth International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (lrec 14). Reykjavík, Iceland. May, Holds or Transitions: Which Is More Important? Jonathan Keane & Leah C. Geer Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago, IL. April, A cross-linguistic examination of the Symmetry & Dominance Constraints Association for Linguistic Typology (alt) 10, Leipzig, Germany. August, Calculating Frequency of Occurrence of ASL handshapes Jonathan Henner, & Diane Lillo-Martin Linguistics Society of America (lsa) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. January, A cross-linguistic examination of the Symmetry & Dominance Constraints High Desert Linguistics Society Conference (hdls), Albuquerque, NM. November, Linking an ID-gloss database of asl with child language corpora Julia Fanghella,, Jonathan Henner, Julie Hochgesang, Diane Lillo-Martin, Gaurav Mathur, Gene Mirus & Pedro Pascual Villanueva

4 p. 4 The 5 th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon at Language Resources and Evaluation (lrec 12). Istanbul, Turkey. May 27 th, Sources of Variation in Mongolian Sign Language Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (salsa), Austin, TX. April, Kinship in Mongolian Sign Language 3L Summer School for Language Documentation & Description Student Conference Leiden, The Netherlands, July Invited Talks Improving Fingerspelling Comprehension in L2 Learers Through Explicit Phonetic Instruction V L 2 Student Network Presentation Series, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. October 14 th, (forthcoming) Harry Potter: Through the Deaf Lens & Jennifer Dahlgren-Richardson El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX. October 24 th, An Introduction to Linguistics for asl and Interpreting Instructors El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX. October 23 rd, Kortugal is not a country in Europe and other lessons from second language learners of ASL fingerspelling National Technical Institute for the Deaf department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education. Rochester, NY. October, Anatomical Markedness in Handshape Acquisition: Is that the full story? University of Manitoba Linguistics Colloquium, Winnipeg, Manitoba. April, Skills workshops Sign Language and Cultural Etiquette: Essential Skills for Working With Deaf People Angela M. Nonaka & Leah C. Geer Council on Social Work Education Conference, Tampa, FL. October 25, Essential Etiquette for Communicating with Deaf People in American Sign Language: Foundations for Linguistically and Culturally Competent Social Work Practice Angela M. Nonaka & Leah C. Geer National Association of Social Workers/Texas State Conference, San Marcos, TX. October 18, Other presentations Exploring factors that contribute to successful fingerspelling comprehension Samskiptamiðstöð heyrnarlausra og heyrnarskertra. (Communication center for the deaf and hard of hearing), Reykjavík, Iceland. May, 2014.

5 p. 5 Fingerspelling in ASL: Examining Age of Acquisition Effects. University of Chicago Workshop on Language, Cognition & Computation, Chicago, IL. March, Language Attitudes in Signers of Mongolian Sign Language at Gallaudet University., Roxanne Moore & Page Roberts Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. April, Copyediting Deaf Around the World: The Impact of Language. Gaurav Mathur and Donna Jo Napoli (editors) Oxford University Press Motor Learning & Control for Practitioners, Second Edition. Cheryl A. Coker Holcomb Hathaway Publishers Courses taught and assisted Assistant Professor deaf 51; American Sign Language I Fall 2016 deaf 155; American Sign Language V Fall 2016 Assistant Instructor lin 350/asl 326; Sign Languages & Signing Communities Fall 2015 asl 601D; American Sign Language I: Beginning Summer 2015 asl 610D; American Sign Language II: Beginning Spring 2015 asl 601D; American Sign Language I: Beginning Fall 2014 asl 601D; American Sign Language I: Beginning Summer 2014 asl 610D; American Sign Language II: Beginning Spring 2014 asl 601D; American Sign Language I: Beginning Fall 2013 asl 507; Second Semester American Sign Language I Summer 2013 asl 507; Second Semester American Sign Language I Spring 2013 asl 506; First Semester American Sign Language I Fall 2012 asl 507; Second Semester American Sign Language I Summer 2012 Teaching Assistant lin 306; Introduction to the Study of Language Spring 2016 asl 507; Second Semester American Sign Language I Spring 2012 asl 312K; First Semester American Sign Language II Summer 2011 Advising California State University, Sacramento Undergraduate Deaf Studies majors and minors Fall 2016 University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate research assistanceship S. Beard Fall 2015 Undergraduate research assistanceship C. Barthlow Summer 2015 Undergraduate guided research project C. Larson Fall Spring 2013

6 p. 6 Academic Service Abstract reviewer: Linguistics Society of America (lsa) Linguistics Editor: Journal of American Sign Language & Literature (jasll) 2016-present Associate Editor: Journal of American Sign Language & Literature (jasll) Abstract reviewer: Texas Linguistics Society (tls) Abstract reviewer: Texas Linguistics Society (tls) Conference co-organizer: Texas Linguistics Society (tls) Conference co-organizer: Texas Linguistics Society (tls) Abstract reviewer: Symposium About Language and Society - Austin (salsa) 2012 Professional organizations Linguistics Society of America (lsa) Regular Member American Sign Language Teachers Association (aslta) Certified Member Present Present Community Service Secretary: Texas Latino Council of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (tlcdhh) University Activities The University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Graduate Adviser Review committee Gallaudet University, Washington, DC Presidential Search Advisory Committee (psac) 2009 Languages Native/near-native: English, American Sign Language Proficient: International Sign, Spanish Basic: German, Portuguese Statistical programs Basic/Intermediate: R, spss Course Management Systems Skilled: Blackboard, Canvas