research Interests

Barbara LeMaster, Ph.D.

Professor, California State University, Long Beach

Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics

The emergence and maintenance of ethnic, cultural, and gender identities in historical and ethnographic contexts, specifically examining the use of resistance and power in unequal social relationships.

+ Includes interest in general practices and discourses of social control, and the dynamic interaction of disadvantaged and minority people in situations of unequal social relationships.

+ Includes interest in the effects of educational language policies on group structure and language use.

+ Includes interest in the expression of gender, ethnicity, and cultural identity through language variation.

Descriptive linguistic, and sociolinguistic analyses of Deaf sign languages.

Ethnographies of Deaf communities.

Gender socialization in schools.

Contexts of research: Educational and Community settings.

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