User:Richard J. Senghas

Richard J Senghas is a professor of anthropology and linguistics in the Department of Anthropology/Linguistics at Sonoma State University, CA. He earned a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his MA and PhD in Anthropology at the University of Rochester, NY. He has conducted ethnographic and linguistic research in Nicaragua, and is particularly interested in sign languages and social theory. His research has been supported, in part, by a Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship and a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, the American Ethnological Society, and the Council on Anthropology and Education.

Richard is currently on sabbatical at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden.