Ceil Lucas

Ceil Lucas (born March 19, 1951) is an American linguist. Lucas is a ''professor emerita'' of Gallaudet University. Lucas was a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University until her retirement in 2014. Lucas is currently the editor of '' Sign Language Studies'' at Gallaudet University Press, a position she's held since 2009.

Lucas is known for her contributions to the field of linguistics, most notably in the research of American Sign Language.

Early life

Lucas was born in the United States but raised from ages five through twenty-one in Guatemala City and in Rome, Italy.
Lucas studied at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and received her BA in French and art history. Later, she earned her M.S. and PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University.

Career

In 1973, Lucas started teaching Italian and continues to do so.

Lucas began teaching at Gallaudet University in 1981 and, alongside Robert Johnson and Scott Liddell, was one of the inaugural faculty to teach in the university's new linguistics graduate program.

During her tenure at Gallaudet, Lucas served as principal investigator on two research projects in the field of sign language linguistics. The first of these was the large-scale project ''Sociolinguistic Variation In ASL'' (funded by the National Science Foundation Grant Numbers: SBR 9310116, SBR 9709522). The results of this study are summarized in the book ''Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language'' (2001). (Results of its pilot study are discussed in the introductory chapter of ''Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities'' (1995).) The second project became titled ''The History and Structure of Black ASL'' (funded by The Spencer Foundation and NSF, Grant Numbers: BCS-0813736, DRL-0936085). The results of this study are summarized in the book ''The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure'' (2011).

Lucas also holds an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Lucas was awarded ''professor emerita'' status in 2014.

Bibliography

* Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1990.
Sign Language Research: Theoretical Issues
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* Lucas, Ceil, and Clayton Valli. 1992.
Language Contact in the American Deaf Community
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* Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1995.

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* Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1996.

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* Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1998.

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* Lucas, Ceil, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli. 2001.
Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language
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* Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 2001. ''The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages''. Cambridge University Press.
* Lucas, Ceil, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli. 2003.
What's Your Sign for Pizza?: An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language
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* Valli, Clayton, Ceil Lucas, Kristin J. Mulrooney, and Miako N.P. Rankin. 2011.
Linguistics of American Sign Language: An Introduction
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* McCaskill, Carolyn, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill. 2011.
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure
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* Bayley, Robert, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas. 2013.
The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics
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* Schembri, Adam C., and Ceil Lucas. 2015.
Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities
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References

External links

Gallaudet Video Library, Linguistic Video Collection
(This collection contains video data from both the Sociolinguistic Variation In ASL and The History and Structure of Black ASL projects.)

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1951 births
Living people
Linguists from the United States
Women linguists
Whitman College alumni
Gallaudet University faculty
Academic journal editors
Georgetown University alumni