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)

 

 

Publications--Books

 

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.