CODE: OSEPPRS
TOM L.
HUMPHRIES
Office
address: University
of California, San Diego
Teacher
Education Program 0070
La
Jolla, Ca. 92093
Education:
1977 Ph.D, Cross Cultural Communication
& Language Learning
Union
Graduate School
The
Union Institute
1972 M.A.,
Education
Gallaudet College
Academic appointments:
1993-Present Associate
Director, Teacher Education Program &
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
University
of California, San Diego
1981 to 1992 Associate
Dean
San
Diego Community College District
1986-1987 Lecturer
Counselor
Education
San
Diego State University
1978-1988 Adjunct
Professor
Special
Education
San
Diego Mesa College
1979-1981 Instructor
Special
Education
Educational
Cultural Complex
l975-1978 Instructor
Department
of English
Gallaudet College
l972-1975 Curriculum
Materials Specialist
Department
of Educational
Technology
& Office of Student Affairs
Gallaudet College
Recent papers and presentations:
"Deaf People in
College: The Culture Factor",
invited speaker, California State Universities Systemwide Conference, Deaf and
Hard of Hearing Programs, CSU-Sacramento, October, 1988.
"Deaf in America; Voices
from a Culture", The Third International Workshop for Deaf Researchers,
Hamburg, Germany, July 1989.
"Silenced Voices: Deaf in America", invited speaker,
California State University, San Luis Obispo, September, 1989.
"Notions of Integration in
Bilingual Education for Deaf People", Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages Convention, San Francisco, March, 1990.
"Teaching the Culture of
Deaf People: Course Notes and
References", invited speaker, California Association of Teachers of Sign,
Pacific Grove, Ca., May, 1990.
"Interpreting Culture", invited speaker,
Gallaudet University Deaf Culture lecture series, Washington, D.C., November,
1990.
"Deaf Culture and
Cultures", invited speaker, Australia and New Zealand Council of Educators
of the Deaf, Surfers' Paradise, Queensland, Australia, January, 1991.
"Culture: Invention and
Ideology", invited speaker, NCPTSLI Lecture Series, California State
University-Northridge, April, 1991
"Putting It All
Together: A Cultural Perspective
of Deafness in the l990's", keynote address, American Deafness and
Rehabilitation Association, Chicago, May, 1991.
"Possible Lives: A Theory of Culture and Deaf
Children", invited speaker, Center for Cultural Studies, University of
California, Santa Cruz, March, l992.
“Pathways to
Community”, keynote speaker, Statewide Conference on Childhood Deafness,
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, June, l993.
“Studying Deaf
Cultures”, International Deaf Researchers’ Workshop, Castbergaard,
Denmark, July, 1993.
"The Role of Language
Explanation in the Natural Approach", California American Sign Language
Teachers' Association, California State University, Northridge, October, 1996.
"A Bilingual, Multicultural
Approach to Deaf Education:
Training ASL-English Bilingual Teachers", California Association of
Bilingual Educators, February, 1997.
“Characteristics of
Language Use in Teacher Talk”, invited speaker American Anthropological
Association, November, 1997.
"Coming to Voice",
invited speaker, Gallaudet University, August, 1997
“Adding Links to the
Chain”, California Association of Bilingual Educators, February, 1998
“Deaf and Hearing
Relationships”, invited speaker, El Camino College, April, 1998.
“The Interaction of ASL and
English in Teacher Talk”, Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf,
July, 1999.
“The Modern Deaf Self and
the Discourse of Culture”, invited speaker, Gallaudet University, August,
1999.
Keynote presentation: Prevention, Treatment, and
Recovery for Deaf People Conference, May 2000.
"Teaching American Sign Language as a Second
Language", invited workshop and statewide telecast, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, March 2000.
Keynote presentation: Boys' Town conference on early children
deafness, Creighton University, October, 2000.
"Private to public
expressions of culture:
reorganizing deaf education", invited speaker, American
Anthropological Association, November 2000.
“Reorganizing deaf
education”, invited week-long seminar, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland,
2001.
“Talking culture, culture
talking”, invited speaker, Deaf Studies Think Tank, Gallaudet University,
July 2002
“Meeting the multi-language needs of deaf and
hard of hearing children through bilingual teacher training: a California experimental
program”, Association of College Educators-Deaf and Hard of Hearing,
February, 2003.
“Talking culture or culture
talking: Private to public
expressions of culture”, invited speaker, lecture series, California
State University, Northridge. May,
2003
“Talking culture: Deaf culture, audism and other
strange talk in the late 20th century”, Deaf Researchers and
Academics Conference, Washington, DC.
February, 2004.
“An alternative approach to classroom
practice: A California
experimental program”, American Education Research Association”,
San Diego. April 2004.
Other professional activities:
Executive Committee, Joint Ed.D. in Educational Leadershid
(UCSD, SDSU, CSUSM). Coordination
of new doctoral program. 2004-2005.
Member: Commission of Teacher Credentialing panel. A committee to write and set subject
matter requirements and program standards for teachers of ASL in California
schools.
Joint Ed.D. Committee and
proposal writing team: Proposal
for joint Education Doctorate in Educational Leadership (with SDSU and CSU-SM).
2003
Project Director & Co-PI: A
Collaborative Partnership: An
Investigation of the Effects of Implementation of Bilingual Cultural Pedagogy
and Authentic Assessment (two University of California Linguistic Minority
Research Institute grants, $10,000 and $25,000). 2001-2003
Program Committee, Teacher
Education Program, 2000-present.
Academic Senate Representative
(alternate), Communication Department, 2002-2004.
Ed.D. Committee and proposal
writing team: Proposal for
Education Doctorate in Teaching and Learning. 2001-2003.
Member: Various search committees, Teacher Education Program and Department of Communication 1997-2003.
Coordinator and Graduate Advisor:
M.A. in ASL-English Bilingual Education Program, New M.A. program emphasis
begun Fall, 1998-present.
Team leader and proposal writer:
Development of a new emphasis on bilingual education for deaf children in the
Master of Arts degree offered by the UCSD Teacher Education,
1995-1998.Co-organizer: Symposium
on Teaching Reading to Deaf Children, UCSD, May, 2002
Host
organizer: annual conference,
American Association of College Educators, 2001.
Standing review panel, U.S.
Department of Education, OSEP, 1999-present.
Member: Undergraduate Committee, Communication Department,
1999-2000.
Organizer and co-PI: Symposium on teaching of reading to
Deaf children.
Review panelist, U.S. Department
of Education, OSEP, 1997-1999
Project Specialist: Research Program in Language and
Literacy ($450,000 federal grant).
Member: Editorial Board, Sign Language Studies, l991-Present.
Member: Gallaudet Research Institute Advisory Committee
Member: Deaf Studies Program Advisory Board, California State
University, Northridge, Ca., l985-1998.
Member: Sign Language Studies Advisory Board, Ohlone College,
Fremont, Ca
Consultant:
Judicial Council of California Advisory Committee to Develop Guidelines
on Certification of Sign Language Interpreters in Courts, l991.
Chair: Task Force on Services to Deaf Students, California
Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, l990-92.
Member: Affirmative Action Advisory Committee, San Diego Community
College District, l990-1992.
Member: Planning Committee, Deaf Designs for Living and Learning,
l990, a national conference to explore innovative futures for Deaf people,
l987-90.
Member: Editorial Board, CAPED Journal, professional
publication of the California Association of PostSecondary Educators of the
Disabled, l982-91.
Member:
Program Committee, National Symposium on Sign Language Research and
Teaching, National Association of the Deaf, l986.
Doctoral and Master’s thesis committees:
Doctoral Committees:
Jennifer Rayman, Department of Communication, UCSD,
present.
Colin Ong-Dean, Department of Sociology, UCSD, present.
Randall Myers, Mental Health Counseling, Union Institute,
2001
Lillian Tompkins, Department of Education, Gallaudet
University, 2000
Margaret Lott, Department of Anthropology, University of
Texas-Austin, 1999
Clayton Valli, ASL Poetics, Union Graduate School, 1993
Master’s Committees:
Susan Carlson (Chair, 94), Lorena Cardenas (Chair, 95),
Cinnamon Campbell (Chair, 96), Danice Von Feldt (Chair, 97), Melissa Smith
(Chair, 98), Sharon Allen (98), Liz Mendoza (Chair, 99), Su Yon Lee (99),
Jennifer Jones (99), Jean Alexander (99), Carla Sandu (99), Jodi Mowrey (Chair,
00), Sara Martin (Chair, 00), Michelle Vrbancic (Chair, 00), Ann Cerny (00),
Kristine Ellis (00), Stephanie LaQua (00), April McArthur (Chair, 01), Jennifer
Hipskind (Chair, 01), Darah Grisham (Chair, 01), Christopher Steussy (01),
Heidi Burns (02), Lisa Perez (02), Farrah Nolan (02), Melissa Herzig (02), Kari
Wissler (Chair, 03), Adrienne White (Chair, 03), Kelly Baldwin (Chair, 04),
Scarlett Bernstein (Chair, 04), Amy Burcheil (Chair, 04), Wendy Harris (Chair,
04), Summer Mann (Chair, 04), Naomi Shcnenman (Chair, 04)
Humphries, Tom, Carol Padden & T. J. O'Rourke A
Basic Course in American Sign Language, Silver Spring, Md.: TJ Publishers, Inc., 1980.
Padden, Carol & Tom Humphries Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, l988.
Humphries, Tom & Carol Padden Learning American Sign Language,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1992.
Humphries, Tom & Carol Padden. Learning American Sign Language, 2nd
Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 2004.
Humphries, T. & C. Padden. Instructor’s Manual for Learning American Sign
Language. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 2004.
Padden, C. & T. Humphries. Inside Deaf Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2005
Humphries, T., B. Allen, L.
Rowe. School in ASL: An
Alternate to Traditions in Deaf Education. In preparation.
Humphries, Tom & Padden, Carol Advancing in American Sign Language, In preparation.
Other publications
Humphries, T. "A Rationale for a Culturally
Sensitive English Language Program Objective", Teaching English to the Deaf, Fall/Winter, l977. Washington, D. C.: Gallaudet College.
Humphries, T., B. Martin, &
T. Coye "A Bilingual,
Bicultural Approach to Teaching English", Proceedings of the Second
Annual National Symposium on Sign Language Research and Teaching,
l978. Silver Spring, Md: National Association of the Deaf.
Humphries, T., C. Padden & T. J. O'Rourke A Basic
Course in American Sign Language,
Silver Spring, Md.: TJ Publishers, Inc., 1980.
Humphries, T. "Planning and Evaluating Culturally
Sensitive Post-Secondary Educational Programs for Deaf People", CAPED Journal, vol. 1, no. 1,
l983.
Humphries, T. "Functioning Across Cultures: The Deaf Student on the Hearing College
Campus", Proceedings, 6th
National Conference of the Association of Handicapped Students Service Programs
in PostSecondary Education, l984..
Humphries,
T., B. Martin, & T. Coye
"A Bilingual, Bicultural Approach to Teaching English", Proceedings
of the Second Annual National Symposium on Sign Language Research and Teaching,
l978. Silver Spring, Md: National Association of the Deaf.
Reprinted in: American Deaf
Culture, An Anthology, S.
Wilcox, ed., l989, Silver Spring, Md:
Linstok Press..
Humphries, Tom "An Introduction to the Culture of
Deaf People in the United States:
Content Notes & Reference Material for Teachers" in Sign
Language Studies, 1991, 72: 209-240.
Padden, C. & T. Humphries Gehorlose: Eine Kultur
Bingt Sich zur Sprache.
Zemtrum, fur Deutsche Gebardensprache und Kommunkation Gehorloser.. Hamburg: Signum-Verlag.
1991. (German translation.)
Humphries, T. & C. Padden Learning American Sign Language, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
1992.
Humphries, T.
"Deaf Culture and Cultures" in Multicultural Issues in
Deafness, K. Christensen and G. Delgado, eds., New York:
Longman Press, 1993.
Humphries, T. “On Deaf-mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf
Self” in Culturally
Affirming Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons, N. Glickman and M. Harvey,
eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
Padden, C. & T. Humphries,
“A Changing Consciousness”, Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press.
1988. Reprinted in American
Voices: Multicultural Literacy and Critical Thinking, D. LaGuardia & H.
Guth, Eds. London, UK: Mayfield
Publishing Co. 1996.
Humphries, T. & MacDougall,
F. "Chaining" and other
links: making connections between
American Sign Language and English in two types of school settings", Visual
Anthropology Review, 15:2, Fall/Winter 1999/2000.
Humphries, T. “On Deaf-mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf
Self” in Culturally
Affirming Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons, N. Glickman and M. Harvey,
eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. Reprinted in Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary
Sourcebook, Lois Bragg, Ed. New York:
New York University Press. 2001.
Padden, C. & T.
Humphries. Deaf in
America: Vocies from a
Culture. Tokyo, Japan: Sho-bun-sha Publishing. 2004. (Japanese translation.)
Humphries, T. “The modern Deaf self: Indigenous practices and educational
imperatives”. In Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual
Perspectives, Brenda Bruggeman, Ed., Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press. 2004.
Humphries, T. “Talking culture and culture
talking” In Sightings,
Dirksen Bauman, Ed. Minneapolis,
MN: University of Minnesota
Press. In press.
Allen, B. & T. Humphries. “A Collaborative
partnership: An Investigation of
the Effects of Implementation of Bilingual Cultural Pedagogy and Authentic
Assessment on Deaf Children’s Literacy”. In preparation.
Unpublished Material:
Humphries, Tom "Communicating Across Cultures (Deaf-Hearing) and Language Learning", Unpublished doctoral dissertation. 1977.
Memberships:
Association of College
Educators-Deaf and Hard of Hearing
California Association of
Educators of the Deaf
American Sign Language
Teachers’ Association
American Educational Research
Association
Council of American Instructors
of the Deaf
Awards:
Laurent Clerc Award, Gallaudet University Alumni
Association, 2004
Professional of the Year Award, IMPACT, 2003
Professor of the Year, Sigma Chi Fraternity, 1997
1995 Outstanding Leadership Award, Gallaudet
University Alumni Association
President's Award, Greater Los Angeles Council on
Deafness, 1989.
Man of the Year, Irish Congress of Southern California, 1988.