Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of California, San Diego - Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences - 2023
Recipient of the San Diego FellowshipRecipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program grantBoston University - B.A.s in Archaeology & Anthropology - 2015
Magna Cum Laude Scarlet Key Honors Society KnightDeaf Studies Club President - 2012-2015Dean's List - Fall & Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall & Spring 2015Canyon Crest Academy - 2011
Outstanding Award in Senior Academics - May 2011Outstanding Award in Social Sciences - May 2011Professional Appointments
Postdoctoral scholar, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Boston University - 2023-present
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 BasePublications
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
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) - 2023-2025
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship - 2019-2022
San Diego Fellowship - 2017-2019
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)
Psycholinguistics of Sign Languages: University of California, San Diego (Winter 2021)