UCSD Communication

Name:	Kinda Al-Fityani
Education:	University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California ABD Communication, March 2007 Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois M.S. Communication, 2003 Thesis: Co-Cultural Communicative Practices of Deaf People vis-à-vis Hearing People James L. Fisher Outstanding Thesis Award Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. B.A. Communication Arts & Deaf Studies, 2001 University Honors and Summa Cum Laude
Publications & Presentations:	Al-Fityani, K. & Padden, C. (In Press). Sign language geography in the Arab world. In D. Brentari (Ed.), Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. New York: Cambridge University Press. Al-Fityani, K. & Padden, C. (2008). A lexical comparison of sign languages in the Arab world. Electronic Proceedings of the 9th Conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Florianopolis, Brazil. Serlin, D., Al-Fityani, K., Briggs, L., Goldfarb, B., Mitchell, D. & Snyder, S. (2008, January). Toward a transnational history of disability. Panel discussion at 122nd Meeting of American Historical Association. Washington, D.C. Al-Fityani, K. (2007). Arab sign languages: A lexical comparison. Center for Research in Language Technical Reports, 19(1), 3-13. Available: http://crl.ucsd.edu/newsletter/19-1/TechReports/19-1.pdf Al-Fityani, K. & Padden, C. (2006, December). A lexical comparison of sign languages in the Arab world. Poster presented at the 9th Conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Florianopolis, Brazil.
Publications:	University of California-San Diego, Department of Communication Lecturer COHI 124 Voice: Deaf People in America, 2008 COHI 100 Introduction to Communication and the Individual, 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant COGN 21 Methods of Media Production, 2007 COGN 22 Methods of Media Production, 2007 COHI 124 Voice: Deaf People in America, 2006 COHI 100 Introduction to Communication and the Individua, 2006 COCU 100 Introduction to Communication and Culture, 2005 COGN 20 Introduction to Communication, 2004 Research Assistant Assisting Professor Carol Padden with her study of a village sign language in Israel 2004-2007 University of California-San Diego, Linguistics Language Program Graduate Tutor 1C American Sign Language, 2008 1B American Sign Language, 2008 Illinois State University, Department of Communication Graduate Teaching Assistant Language and Communication, 2001-2003
Awards:	Gallaudet University Alumni Association Graduate Fellowship Fund Award 2008-2009 Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, 2008 Summer Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2008 Departmental travel award to present at the American Historical Association, 2007 Sanford I. Berman Chair travel grant to attend Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference in Florianopolis, 2006 Tec Kidane-Mariam Scholarship from the Friends of the International Center, 2005 NSF travel grant to attend Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference in Barcelona, 2004 Graduate fellowship with stipend, 2003-2004 C. B. Congdon Scholarship, 2000-2001 The Alice M. Teegarden Memorial Award, 2001, 2000 Phi Alpha Pi Honorary Society Award, 2000 Joseph L. Mattivi Internship Stipend Award, 2000 Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War Writing Award in American History, 2000 International Deaf Education and Advancement Fund Scholarship, 1998-2000
Activities:	Faculty Mentor for an Undergraduate Internship Project, 2008 Graduate Representative to the Graduate Affairs Committee, 2004-2006 Workshop Instructor for Sign Language & Its Culture, Linguistics Department, 2005 Experimental film The Sound of Captions screened at Ladyfest Film Festival, 2005 Founding president of Gallaudet University’s chapter of Lambda Pi Eta Communication Studies Honor Society, 2000-2001
Relevant Skills :	Native/near-native competence in American Sign Language, Arabic and English