Doctoral Student
Email: abehmanesh@lamar.edu

Hometown

• Tehran, Iran

Current Employment

• Instructor, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Education

• M.A. in Deaf Studies with a Concentration in Sign Language, Gallaudet University, 2012
• B.A. in Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University, 2002

Research Interests

• L1 and L2 acquisition
• Deaf history
• Bilingual and biliteracy in Deaf Education
• Deaf cultural studies
• Deaf neurology and the Deaf brain

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Greene-Woods, A., Delgado, N. J., Buchanan, B., Sides, M., Behmanesh, A. A., Cheslik, B., Koo, C. K., & Clark, M. D. (2020). Deaf cultural capital and its conflicts with hearing culture: Navigational successes and failures. JADARA, 54(1), 15-30. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/jadara/vol54/iss1/2
• Sanjabi, A., Behmanesh, A.A., Guity, A., Siyavoshi, S., Watkins, M., & Hochgesang, J.A. (2016). Zaban Eshareh Irani (ZEI) and its Fingerspelling System. Sign Language Studies, 16(4), 500-534. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26191232

Recent Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Behmanesh, A. (2006). Iranian Deaf Culture. In H. Goodstein [Ed.] The Deaf Way II Reader: Perspective from the Second International Conference on Deaf Culture, pp.193-198. Gallaudet University Press

Recent Presentations

• Behmanesh, A. (2016). First Iranian Living Overseas, presenter of Iranian Deaf Culture and Interpreter Training Program, Hamburg, Germany.

Dissertation Focus

• Deaf educational assistants in Iran: Overcoming barriers and restraints to lead in the classroom
• Bilingual Deaf Education in Iran