Joseph Hill
Assistant Dean NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention
Joseph Hill
Assistant Dean NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention
Education
BS, Miami University; MA, Ph.D., Gallaudet University
Bio
Dr. Joseph C. Hill is an Associate Professor in the Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, Associate Director of the Center on Culture and Language, and Assistant Dean for Faculty Recruitment and Retention at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institutes for the Deaf. His research interests include socio-historical and -linguistic aspects of African-American variety of American Sign Language and attitudes and ideologies about signing varieties in the American Deaf community. His contributions include The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (2011) which he co-authored with Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, and Robert Bayley and Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community (2012). Link: www.josephchill.com
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In the News
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March 22, 2024
Signed: How ASL Became A Language Of Resistance
The Embodied Podcast speaks to Joseph Hill, assistant dean of NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention, about the research he and two other colleagues have conducted about BASL.
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March 13, 2024
African American English, Black ASL are stigmatized. Experts say they deserve recognition
The Democrat and Chronicle talks to Joseph Hill, assistant dean of NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention, about the issue. (This content requires a subscription to view.)
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January 9, 2023
Preserving Black ASL
For years, Joseph Hill, assistant dean of NTID Faculty Recruitment and Retention and an associate professor in the Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, has studied how the segregation of southern Black Deaf Americans, along with their history and culture, has impacted the linguistics of today’s Black Deaf youth. Hill hopes his research will continue to uncover and preserve Black American Sign Language.