User:Wugapodes/Ceil Lucas

Ceil Lucas is an American linguist and Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Gallaudet University. She received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1980 and began teaching at Gallaudet in 1982. From 1995 to 2010 she edited the Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities series, and currently edits the Journal of Sign Language Studies. She was chair of the Gallaudet Department of linguistics in 2008 and retired from Gallaudet in Spring 2013. She has written and edited a number of books on the sociolinguistics of sign languages including ''What's Your Sign for PIZZA? An Introduction to Variation in ASL and the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities'' series. She was a member of the Black ASL project which described the linguistic features of Black American Sign Language.