Meet The Team
Dr. Patrick Boudreault
DSDJ Executive Editor
Brianna Keogh
DSDJ Managing Editor
Hailing from San Diego, California, Brianna Keogh has a BA in Psychology with Honors from Gallaudet University. Keogh has four years of experience in the field of research and published a paper about peer support and food security in deaf college students with significant findings. Her passions include contributing to the future of deaf education, advocating for bilingualism, and making information accessible for all.
H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Ph.D
Professor
DST MA Coordinator/Director
ASL Connect
ASL & Deaf Studies Program
Gallaudet University
Dirksen Bauman is Professor of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University where is serves as coordinator of the Deaf Studies MA Program. He is the Founding Co-Editor of the Deaf Studies Digital Journal along with Dr. Ben Bahan. He is the co-editor of the book/DVD project, Signing the Body Poetic: Essays in American Sign Language (U of California P, 2006); editor of Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking (U of Minnesota P, 2008); co-editor of Deaf-Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity (U of Minnesota P, 2014) and co-author of Transformative Conversations: Mentoring Communities among Colleagues in Higher Education (Jossey Bass, 2013).
Dr. Bauman received his BA in English from Colorado College, and soon afterward, worked as a dormitory supervisor at the Colorado School for the Deaf and
the Blind. He then pursued an MA degree in English from the University of Northern Colorado and a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, State University of New York. He has held teaching positions at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology and in the Department of English at Gallaudet University. Dr. Bauman is currently involved with the creation of ASL Connect, an online resource for learning ASL and exploring Deaf Studies online.
Christian Volger, Ph.D.
Director
Technology Access Program
Gallaudet University
Dr. Chrisitan Vogler is the director of the Technology Access. He is the principal investigator within the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telecommunications Access, with a particular focus on the accessibility of web conferencing and telecollaboration systems. In his role at the RERC, he is involved in bringing consumers and industry together on accessibility issues, as well as developing prototype technologies for improving the accessibility of such systems.
Prior to joining TAP in 2011, Dr. Volger has worked on various research projects related to sign language recognition and facial expression recognition from video at the University of Pennsylvania; the Gallaudet Research Institute, UNICAMP in Campinas, Brazil; and the Institute for Language and Speech Processing in Athens, Greece. He also runs the DeafAcademics mailing list, a loose network of dead and hard of hearing researchers all over the world.
Ted Supalla, Ph.D.
Professor
Georgetown University
Ted Supalla is a Professor of Neurology, Linguistics and Psychology at Georgetown University and the director of the Sign Language Research Lab. Supalla has been working in the areas of ASL linguistics and Deaf Studies for over 40 years. Currently he is reconstructing the early grammar of American Sign Language and its literary traditions, through a structural analysis of ASL as recorded on historical films. He is a co-author of Sign Language Archaeology: Understanding Historical Roots of American Sign Language.
His lab hosts a Historical Sign Language Database (www.hsldb.georgetown.edu) as a resource tool for public use. In addition, he teaches a massive open online course entitled: Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change (https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:GeorgetownX+SLSX-401-01x+2T2017/course/).
Raja Kushalnagar, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D.
Director
Information Technology program
Department of Science, Technology and Mathematics
Gallaudet University
His research interests encompass the fields of accessible computing and accessibility/intellectual property law, with the goal of improving information access for deaf and hard of hearing people. For example, he investigates how deaf individuals acquire information through speech-to-text or sign language interpreters, compared with their hearing peers who listen directly. He has developed evidence-based guidelines for captions that provide visual cues to non-speech information. Finally, in the accessibility and intellectual property law field, he advocates for updates in accessible and intellectual property law.
Elizabeth Henry
Instruction & Reference/E-Resources Librarian
She joined the Gallaudet University Library team in 2010. She is responsible for managing the Library's electronic resources, such as e-books and e-journals as well as providing instruction and reference as needed to the Gallaudet Community. In addition, she is a native cuer and an avid traveler with a background in Fine Arts. Every once in a while, you can find her leading an ASL tour at the National Gallery of Art or at the Smithsonian American Arts Museum.
Andrew Biskupiak
Student Assistant
Andrew Biskupiak is a graduate student at Gallaudet University studying Deaf Studies with a concentration in Cultural Studies. Currently, in his last semester of graduate school, Andrew is doing an internship with the Deaf Studies and Digital Journal. Prior to graduate school, he also graduated from the University with honors. His research interests lie in deaf history, deaf LGBTQ individuals, identity experiences, and oral history.
Iosif Shayman
Student Assistant