Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of California, San Diego – Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences – 2023
Recipient of the San Diego Fellowship
Recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program grant
Boston University – B.A.s in Archaeology & Anthropology – 2015
Magna Cum Laude
Scarlet Key Honors Society Knight
Deaf Studies Club President – 2012-2015
Dean’s List – Fall & Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall & Spring 2015
Canyon Crest Academy – 2011
Outstanding Award in Senior Academics – May 2011
Outstanding Award in Social Sciences – May 2011
Professional Appointments
Postdoctoral scholar, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Boston University – 2023-presentCanyon Crest Academy – 2011
Lab Member, Mayberry Laboratory for Multimodal Language Development, University of California, San Diego – 2017-2023
Program Manager, Sign Language Research Lab, Georgetown University – 2015-2017
Historical Sign Language Data Base
Publications
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R.I. (in prep). Working title: Nonverbal predication in American Sign Language. Manuscript.
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R.I. (2022). An emerging SELF: The copula cycle in American Sign Language. Language 98(2), 327-358. Project Muse, doi:10.1353/lan.2022.0005. Paper
- Shield, A. & Sampson, T. (2021). Research on Deafness and ASD: Challenges, Opportunities, and Goals. In Pettit, Paul R. (Ed.), Deafness: Current Perspectives and Research Developments (pp. 117-148). Nova Science Publishers. Book
- Padden C., I. Meir, S. Hwang, R. Lepic, S. Seegers, and T. Sampson. (2013). Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons. Gesture, Volume 13, Issue 3, pages 287-308. Paper
Awards
TISLR13 Best Student Stage Presentation – September 2019.
Fellowships & Grants
Invited Talks
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R.I. (2023, January 7). The use of the copular SELF with adjectives in ASL. Linguistics Society of America 97th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA. Poster.
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R.I. (2023, January 6). Using Historical Dictionaries and Films to Reconstruct Grammaticalization Pathways in American Sign Language. As a part of Organized Section: Emerging Perspectives on Historical Change in Signed Languages. Linguistics Society of America 97th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA. Slides.
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R.I. (2022, September 29). Comparing copulas in American Sign Language. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 14, Osaka, Japan/online. Poster.
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R.I. (2022, July 21). An Emerging SELF: The Copula Cycle in American Sign Language. Linguistics Society of America “Meet the Authors” webinar series, online. Talk.
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2021, May 8). A Copular SELF: The Copula Cycle in ASL. Chicago Linguistics Society 57 Conference, Chicago, IL, United States. Slides.
- Sampson, T. (2021, February 26). Exploring SELF: A copula in American Sign Language. Linguistics Department Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Slides.
- Sampson, T. (2021, February 25). Exploring SELF: A copula in American Sign Language. Meaning & Modality Lab guest lecture, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Slides.
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2020, November 20-22). Individually SELF: Preferred pairings of copulas and predicates in ASL. High Desert Linguistics Society 14 Conference, Albuquerque, NM, United States. Talk/poster.
- Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2019, September 26-28). An Emerging SELF: The Copula Cycle in ASL. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 13, Hamburg, Germany. Talk/slides.
Teaching
As Instructor
- ASL Linguistics: Northeastern University (Spring 2024)
As Teaching Assistant
- Introduction/Study of Language: University of California, San Diego (Spring, Winter 2023)
- Sign Languages and Their Cultures: University of California, San Diego (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020)
- Sign Languages and Their Cultures: University of California, San Diego (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020)