Oksana Tkachman Email: tox.cs84@gmail.com Research Assistant. I became interested in sign language research while studying with Prof. Wendy Sandler. My MA thesis project focused on the noun/verb

Email: natalia.meir@gmail.com I hold a PhD and an MA (summa cum laude) from the University of Bar-Ilan. In my doctoral thesis, I investigated the influence

Assaf Israel During the time I had worked at the lab, my main interest has been the way manual gestures are constrained in the production

  Email: adisteg89@gmail.com I have been working as a speech therapist since 2015.  I work with children and adults with language disorders and hearing impairments.

Itamar Kastner A graduate student at New York University and formerly a research assistant at the lab. My main interest was sign language phonology, namely

  Email: annemariebaer@gmail.com I am a native American Sign Language user, born and raised in the Deaf American community.  I attended two Deaf ASL schools

Christina Healy I am a doctoral candidate at Gallaudet University, and previously worked with the SLRL as a Fulbright scholar (http://www.fulbright.org.il). For that project we

  Email: tamarhalutzi@hotmail.com I am a BA student in General linguistics at Tel Aviv University. For several years, I worked as an educational interpreter in

Sharon Ross Email: smr@ling.ohio-state.edu I completed my master’s degree in linguistics at The Ohio State University, where my studies focused on first language acquisition in

  Email: ramanovo@gmail.com My research focuses on the interaction between language development and cognitive development and how different components of language (such as syntax, semantics,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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