Doctoral Student
Email: etucker4@lamar.edu 

Hometown

• Atascadero, Calif. 

Current Employment

• Lead Tenured Professor of American Sign Language, Cuesta College

Education

• M.A. in Teaching American Sign Language, University of Northern Colorado
• B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Arizona State University

Research Interests

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Higher Education Guided Pathways
• Social Justice
• ASL Teaching and Second Language Acquisition
• Deaf Critical Theory

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Alford, A., Bencak, J., Tucker, E., Williams, D., Courson, F., Buchanan, B., Greene, A., & Clark, M. (2023). Is the window of learning only cracked open? Parents’ perspectives on virtual learning. American Annals of the Deaf.

Recent Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

• N/A

Recent Presentations

• Wright, S. J., Lawyer, G., Tucker, E., Goodwin, S. Bencack, J. & Hill, J. (2020, February). Case study: Social movement impacts on Deaf administrative hires in the past 7 years. Lecture presentation presented at American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences Conference, Las Vegas, NV. 

Dissertation Focus

• Equity, Inclusion and Trauma of Deaf people in Higher Education