About Acadeafic

Associate editors

Maartje De Meulder is senior researcher at University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and Honorary Research Fellow at Heriot-Watt University. Deaf Studies, with a particular and interdisciplinary focus on sign language policy and planning, sign language technologies, and Sign Language Interpreting Studies. Her research roadmap addresses contemporary societal challenges faced by deaf communities. She is frequently observed writing in public spaces such as coffee houses and train stations.
maartje.demeulder@hu.nl

Annelies Kusters is Professor in Sign Language and Intercultural Research at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Between 2017 and 2023, she led a deaf research team focusing on intersectionality and translanguaging in the context of international deaf mobilities, called MobileDeaf. She specialises in Deaf Studies, human geography, applied linguistics, and social anthropology. Her secret to deal with academic multitasking is her bullet journal, and her dream is to have a large vegetable garden one day!
a.kusters@hw.ac.uk

Joseph Murray is Professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. He has published widely in the area of Deaf Studies, history, and human rights. As a scholar active in international human rights advocacy, any given month will likely see Joe spending more commuting hours in planes than in cars.
joseph.murray@gallaudet.edu

Erin Moriarty is Assistant Professor ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.. Her specializations include Deaf Studies, linguistic ethnography, translanguaging, and tourism. On Saturday evenings, she is often at someone’s dining room table, playing a heated game of Exploding Kittens. Or, Pandemic, but lately, she’s been losing, so the world would be in a bit of a pickle if she was an infectious diseases specialist in real life!
erin.moriarty.harrelson@gallaudet.edu

Hilde Haualand is Professor at the Department of International Studies and Interpreting at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a social anthropologist and teaches and studies deaf studies, sign language interpreting as a profession and as a social insitution, and language ideologies. She also works with her colleagues to give sign language a boost in education. She sets her mind at ease by swimming, knitting or digging her hands down in some dirty mold to help green things thrive.
hilma@oslomet.no

Okan Kubus is W2-Professor at the Department of Sign Language Interpreting at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. They teach sign language linguistics, sign language interpreting and Deaf Studies. They collect magnets from around the world and hope to have a collection of 500 soon. Their favorite one is the magnet from their alma-mater, Middle East Technical University.
okan.kubus@h2.de

Octavian Robinson is Assistant Professor at St. Catherine University. He is a historian-by-training, disability studies scholar by fortune. While he dabbles in a variety of fields, all of his work is grounded in questions of belonging driven by his interest in the histories of marginalized populations within the United States during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of his work are questions of Disability Justice. He is fueled entirely by caffeine, canines, and card games.
oerobinson150@stkate.edu

Kristin Snoddon is Associate Professor with the School of Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She teaches courses related to early literacy, inclusion, and social justice. Her research interests include inclusive education policy, sign language planning and policy, and critical ethnography. She enjoys baking and making others laugh.
ksnoddon@ryerson.ca

Khadijat Rashid is Dean of the School of Education, Business and Human Services at Gallaudet University. She has published scholarly articles and book chapters on subjects as varied as interpreter-deaf professional relationships, deaf people’s experience with implants, and deaf communities in Africa. She once flew on a helicopter out to a US aircraft carrier, with the pilot insisting she wear ear protection for her (nonexistent) hearing!
khadijat.rashid@gallaudet.edu