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A Fair Chance in the Race of Life
Contributors
Benjamin Bahan
Ben Bahan is professor of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. He has
published dozens of articles related to the field of Deaf Studies and ASL
linguistics and coauthored such books as Journey into the DEAF-WORLD
and The Syntax of American Sign Language. He prefers to be known as an ASL storyteller and has produced and appeared in several videos.
Hansel Bauman
Hansel Bauman is a San Francisco–based architect and planner currently
leading the Deaf Space Project at Gallaudet University. Bauman is teaching
a course in Deaf space and architecture at the university while also
developing the Gallaudet Deaf Campus Design Guide. He received his
master’s degree in architecture from the Southern California Institute of
Architecture in Los Angles, where he later served as a design studio
instructor. Over the past twenty years his work has explored the interrelationship
between cultural-identity architecture through work in the
United States, Europe, and Asia.
David de Lorenzo
From 1980 to 1988, David de Lorenzo was University archivist and head
of special collections at Gallaudet University. From 1988 to 1997, he held
the position of curator of manuscripts and archives at Harvard Law
School until his appointment as the France-Merrick Library director at
the Maryland Historical Society (1997–2001). Since 2001, he has been associate
director and head of technical services, the Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley, and holds the academic rank of librarian
with distinguished status. He is also an adjunct professor at San Jose
State University’s School of Library and Information Science, where he
teaches courses on archives and records management.
Noah D. Drezner
Noah D. Drezner is assistant professor of Higher Education in the Department
of Education Leadership, Higher Education, and International
Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds a B.A.
from the University of Rochester, an M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania,
a graduate certificate in nonprofit leadership from Roberts
Wesleyan College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Drezner’s
research interests include philanthropy and fund raising as it
pertains to higher education. He is an associate editor of the forthcoming
book, Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Volunteerism in Higher Education.
Brian H. Greenwald
Brian H. Greenwald is associate professor of history at Gallaudet University.
He was the chairperson for the conference “150 Years on Kendall
Green: Celebrating Deaf History and Gallaudet,” from which these articles
are drawn. Greenwald’s B.A. is from Gallaudet, and he was one of
the first two President’s Fellows at Gallaudet University. He received his
Ph.D. in history from the George Washington University in 2006. His
articles have appeared in
The Deaf
History Reader and
Genetics,
Disability, and Deafness.
I. King Jordan
I. King Jordan served as president of Gallaudet University from 1988
until his retirement in 2006. The university’s first deaf president, he
earned a B.A. in psychology from Gallaudet in 1970. The following year
he earned an M.A., and in 1973 a Ph.D., both in psychology and both
from the University of Tennessee. A former professor of psychology and
dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Gallaudet, Jordan also has
been a research fellow at Donaldson’s School for the Deaf in Edinburgh,
Scotland; an exchange scholar at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland;
and a visiting scholar and lecturer at schools in Paris, Toulouse,
and Marseille, France. He holds eleven honorary degrees and is the recipient
of numerous awards, including the Presidential Citizen’s Medal,
the Washingtonian of the Year Award, the James L. Fisher Award from
the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the
Larry Stewart Award from the American Psychological Association, and
the Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Association for
Community Leadership. Jordan is president emeritus of Gallaudet University.
Sandra Jowers-Barber
Sandra Jowers-Barber is assistant professor of history at the University
of the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. She teaches courses in
United States history, African American history, and women’s history
and directs the Oral History Center. A native of Atlantic City, New Jersey,
she holds a doctorate in United States history from Howard University.
Her research interest is disability history with a focus on the African
American deaf community. She is a member of the American Historical
Association, the National Black Deaf Advocates, the Association for the
Study of African American Life and History, and the Association of
Black Women Historians.
Marieta Joyner
Marieta Joyner holds a B.A. in African American studies/psychology, an
M.A. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and a
Ph.D. in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her
area of research focuses on African American studies, culture, and ethnic
studies. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and
Amherst, Roxbury Community College, and Brandeis University. She
has several journal publications and is currently working on a book
about the education of Deaf African Americans after the Civil War to the
1954 historic Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Christopher Krentz
Christopher Krentz is assistant professor of English and American Sign
Language and director of the American Sign Language Program at the
University of Virginia. He is author of Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line
in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and editor of
A Mighty Change:
An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816–1864.
Christopher A. N. Kurz
Christopher A. N. Kurz holds a B.S. in mathematics from the Rochester
Institute of Technology and both an M.A. in deaf education and a Ph.D.
in foundations of education from the University of Kansas. His dissertation
concerned mathematics education for deaf students during the nineteenth
century. Deaf himself, Kurz is assistant professor in the instructional
faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology, specializing in
mathematics education.
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is the author of over a dozen books. In 1989, he
received the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. In
1998, his book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War,
received the Lincoln Prize. McPherson was named the “Jefferson Lecturer
in the Humanities” in by the National Endowment of the Humanities
in 2000, the highest honor the federal government “bestows for distinguished
intellectual achievement in the humanities.” McPherson is past president
of the American Historical Association. His latest publication is
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. He is the George
Henry Davis ’86 Professor Emeritus of Princeton University.
Michael J. Olson
Michael J. Olson graduated from Gallaudet University with a B.A. in
history in 1979. He did graduate work in library science at the University
of Maryland. He began employment in the Gallaudet University Archives
in 1981, where he processes many personal papers of Deaf individuals
and organizations. He has given numerous lectures about the
Gallaudet archives and tours of Gallaudet’s archives facilities to students,
alumni, individual researchers, and groups. He currently is a Gallaudet
University archives technician as well as a member of Deaf History
International and the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Lindsey M. Parker
Lindsey M. Parker is a doctoral student in women’s history at the Ohio
State University. She received an M.A. in Deaf Studies from Gallaudet
University in 2005 and previously earned a B.A. in sign language studies
from Madonna University. She has contributed to The Encyclopedia of
American Disability History and At the Intersections: Deaf Studies Meets
Disability Studies.
Ronald E. Sutcliffe
Ronald E. Sutcliffe graduated from Gallaudet College in 1959, and he
holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He has served as professor
in the Department of Business Administration and dean of the School
of Management at Gallaudet. Currently, he is the executive director of
the National Deaf Business Institute and dean emeritus at Gallaudet.
John Vickrey Van Cleve
John Vickrey Van Cleve taught history at Gallaudet University for thirty-one
years. He also served in various administrative capacities, including
chair of the history department. He was an executive director in Administration
and Finance when he retired. Van Cleve is the author of numerous
articles about deaf history and culture, coauthor of
A Place of Their
Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America; editor-in-chief of the Gallaudet
Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness; editor of
Genetics,
Disability, and Deafness, Deaf
History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship;
and The
Deaf History Reader; and coeditor of
The Study
of Signed Languages: Essays in Honor of William C. Stokoe. He is now
professor emeritus at Gallaudet University
Brian H. Greenwald is Associate Professor of History, Gallaudet
University, Washington, DC.
John Vickrey Van Cleve is Professor Emeritus of History, Gallaudet
University, Washington, DC.
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