Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae December 2013 Addresses 1. Dept. of English Language and Literature The University of Haifa, 31905, Haifa, Israel Phone: (04) 824-0065 2. Sign Language Research Laboratory The University of Haifa Phone: (04) 824-9395 email: [email protected] websites: signlab.haifa.ac.il gramby.haifa.ac.il Education 1975-76 Georgetown University, linguistics 1979-81 Hebrew University, B.A. in English Linguistics 1882-87 University of Texas-Austin, Ph.D. in Linguistics Academic Positions 1988- present Department of English Language and Literature University of Haifa Current Rank: Full Professor 1998-present Director, Sign Language Research Laboratory University of Haifa http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/ 1987-88 Visiting Scholar (Fulbright) Linguistics Department Tel Aviv University Honors, Awards: 1987-88 Fulbright Fellowship. Tel Aviv University. Linguistics 2004 Bahat Prize: best academic book of the year for Meir, I. & Sandler, W. ‘safa bamerxav: ahsnav al sfat hasimanim hayisraelit’. (Language in Space: A Window on Israeli Sign Language) 2013. Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, 2013 Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 2 Funding: 1991-1992 University of Haifa. Humanities Faculty Research Grant. Israeli Sign Language 1992-94 Israel Science Foundation. Phonological Structure of Israeli Sign Language. 1992-94 Ford Foundation (Israel Foundations Trustees). Phonological Structure of Israeli Sign Language 1995-97 Israel Science Foundation. Prosody/Intonation in Israeli Sign Language. 1997-2000 U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. Morphological Structure of Two Sign Languages: Study of an Isolated Sign Language. 1999-2002 Israel Science Foundation. Intonation on the Face: Grammatical Facial Expression in Israeli Sign Language. 2002-2005 U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. The Development of a Morphological System in Sign Languages: Study of an Isolated Sign Language. 2005-2006 National Office of Sciences-Ministry of Education. An educational intervention program aimed at developing metalinguistic awareness of Israeli Sign Language grammatical structure as a tool for improving the Hebrew of deaf high school students. 2004-2009 U.S. National Institutes of Health. The Emergence of Grammar in a New Sign Language (Bedouin Sign Language). With Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir. 2009-2014 U.S. National Institutes of Health. The Emergence of Grammar in a New Sign Language (Bedouin Sign Language). With Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir. 2009-2012 Israel Science Foundation. Village Sign Languages in Israel. 2011-2012 Bewilligung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Bilateral Cooperation grant with Markus Steinbach and Annika Hermann, Gottingen University. 2013-2016 Germany Israel Foundation. With Irit Meir and with Markus Steinbach and colleagues Goettingen University. Visual intonation in Israeli Sign Language and German Sign Language. 2014-2019 European Research Council Advanced Grant. The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language. Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 3 Associated Activities Editorial Board: Sign Language and Linguistics, Biolinguistics, Linguistic Variation, Conceptual Foundations of Language Science, Journal of Linguistics Grant Panel Member: Linguistics Panel, Israel Science Foundation, 2002-2003, 2014-2015, 2015-2016 Grant Reviews: National Science Foundation (U.S.), 1990-91, 1993-98, 2001, 2003-04, 2014. Germany-Israel Science Foundation, 1992. FCAR - Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche, 1994. Israel Science Foundation, 2000, 2003, 2015, 2016. National Science Foundation (Holland), 2002. Israel Science Foundation, 2004, National Science Foundation (U.S.) 2009, 2014, Economic and Social Research Council (UK) 2015 Referee: Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Phonology, Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Language, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Sign Language & Linguistics, Biolinguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, PLOS One, Frontiers in Psychology. Academic Conference Organizer: Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Annual Conference, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2011. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Parasession on Language and Deafness, 1991. Quadrennial International Phonology Conference, Organizer of Workshop on Sign Language Phonology, 1992. Israel Science Foundation, Workshop on Prosody and Intonation in Signed and Spoken Language, 1997. Bilateral Cooperation workshop (with scholars from Goettingen, Germany) September 2011. Minerva- Gentner Symposium on Emergent Languages and Cultural Evolution (with Stephen Levinson), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland, June 2013, Tenth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, University of Haifa. Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation Organized conference on Nascent Languages 2006. http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/events.htm Community-wide Symposia and Workshops: Seeing Voices, University of Haifa, 1996. Symposium and Festival on Story-telling and Poetry in Sign Language, 1999. Workshop on Poetry in Sign Language, 1999. Talking Hands: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Deaf Communities in Israel. 2009. Invited Teaching: University of Amsterdam, Sign Language Linguistics, 1993. State University of New York- Stony Brook, Structure of American Sign Language, 1995. Linguistic Society of American Linguistic Summer Institute, Cross-linguistic Research of Sign Languages. Tel Aviv University, Sign Language Linguistics for Sign Language Interpreters, 1997. LOT Holland Institute of Linguistics Graduate Summer School, Sign Language Linguistics, 2002. Harvard University. Section on Israeli Sign Language in a course on Jewish Languages. 2010. Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 4 Membership in Professional Associations Linguistic Society of America International Society for Gesture Studies Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Refereed Presentations 1984-Present Sandler, W. Iconicity and Linguistic Organization in a New Sign Language: Israeli Sign Language. Presented at the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Baltimore, 1984. Sandler, W. Aspectual Inflections and the Hand Tier Model of American Sign Language Phonology. Presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Lanuage Research. Rochester, NY, 1986. Sandler, W. An Autosegmental Account of ASL Phonology and Morphology. Presented at the Milwaukee Morphology Meeting, Milwaukee, MI, 1986. Sandler, W. Feature Hierarchy and Hand Configuration in ASL. Presented at the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, 1987. Sandler, W. Assimilation and Feature Hierarchy in ASL. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference. Beer Sheva, Israel, 1988. Sandler, W. Templatic Morphology in ASL and Israeli Sign Language. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference, Haifa, 1989. Sandler, W. Feature Organization and Glottal Stop in Modern Hebrew. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Workshop, Jerusalem, 1989. Sandler, W. On the Organization of Natural Feature Classes in American Sign Language. Presented at Linguistics and Phonetics '90, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1990. Sandler, W. Sign Language and Modularity. Presented at the Boston University Language Development Conference, Boston, 1990. Sandler, W. Representation of Phonologically Significant Elements in Sign Language. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Parasession on Language and Deafness, Haifa, 1991. Sandler, W. The Role of the Nondominant Hand in ASL. Presented at the International Phonology and Morphology Conference, Krems, Austria, 1991. Sandler, W. Sonority Sequencing in ASL. Presented at the Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1992. Sandler, W. Four Arguments for Movement. Presented at the Conference on Sign Language Phonology and Morphology, Leiden and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1993. Sandler, W. Two Representations for the Two Roles of the Weak Hand in ASL. Presented at the MOT Conference on Contrast in Phonology, Toronto, Canada, 1994. Sandler, W. Establishing Criteria for Major Phonological Categories. Presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Conference, Manchester, England, 1994. Sandler, W. Prosodic Morphology in Two Sign Languages. Presented at the Prosodic Morphology Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1994. Sandler, W. A Concatenative Suffix in American Sign Language. Presented at the International Morphology Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1996. Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 5 Sandler, W. The Negative Suffix in American Sign Language. Presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Montreal, 1996. Sandler, W. Two Kinds of Cliticization in a Sign Language. Presented at the Conference on The Phonological Word at the ZAS Institute, Berlin, Germany, 1997. Sandler, W. Prosody in Israeli Sign Language. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1998. Sandler, W. The Medium is the Message: Prosodic Interpretation in Sign Language. Presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Washington, D.C., 1998. Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., & Meir, I. Universal and Particular Aspects of Sign Language Morphology. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference, Haifa, 1999. Sandler, W. From Phonetics to Discourse: The Nondominant Hand and the Grammar