Email: davnon37@gmail.com
I started working as a video editor in the Sign Language Lab in 2014. I am deaf. I am a graduate of Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., USA, a Deaf university (www.gallaudet.edu). Currently, I use Israeli Sign Language and American Sign Language. In my profession I am a graphic designer. In addition, I have been teaching sign language since 2009.
Email: hmorga01@campus.haifa.ac.ilPost-doctoral researcher. I completed my PhD at the University of California San Diego in 2017, writing a phonological grammar of Kenyan Sign Language. My research primarily focuses on the…
Email: rose_stamp@hotmail.com
My research interests include sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics and, in particular, variation and change within smaller unique deaf communities. For the past few years I have been working with the British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus Project team (http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/). I completed my PhD in sociolinguistic variation and change of BSL at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) in London, looking at several different aspects of how the language is changing and the reasons why.
Email: kate.a.mesh@gmail.com My research focus is on the use of gestures by hearing and deaf people who inhabit the same community. I investigate how signers adapt conventional gestural practices of…
Email: federica.cavicchio@gmail.com After completing my Ph.D from the Universita' degli studi di Trento (Italy) in Cognitive Neuroscience, with a thesis on computational aspects of emotion and cooperation (under the supervision of…
Email: maburoke@campus.haifa.ac.il I have been studying different languages all my life, but I only discovered my interest in linguistics after taking a seminar course in Pidgins and Creoles as part of…
Calle Börstell During my time as a research assistant in 2012, I worked mainly on annotating and analyzing ABSL data for various projects. Some of that data was subsequently used…
Email: noamarom@gmail.com I joined the Sign Language Lab as a research assistant in January 2014. In the previous year, as part of my MA studies at the English department at Haifa…