Robert Bayley,
editor
Robert Bayley is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. He has conducted research on variation in English, Spanish, Chinese, ASL and Italian Sign Language as well as ethnographic studies of US Latino communities. His recent book-length publications include Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications (edited with Ceil Lucas, 2007), The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (with Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, and Joseph Hill 2011), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (edited with Richard Cameron and Ceil Lucas 2013), and the five volume collection, Language Variation and Change (edited with Richard Cameron 2014).
Richard Cameron,
editor
Richard Cameron is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published on Puerto Rican Spanish, Chicago English, age, gender, medical discourse, and sociolinguistic theory. A recently edited book is Spanish in Context (with Kim Potowski, 2007).
Ceil Lucas,
editor
Ceil Lucas, Ph.D. is Professor of Linguistics, Emerita at Gallaudet University, where she has taught since 1982. She was raised in Guatemala City and Rome, Italy. She is a sociolinguist with broad interests in the structure and use of sign languages. She has co-authored and edited many articles and books, including The Linguistics of American Sign Language, 5th ed. (with Clayton Valli, Kristin Mulrooney, and Miako Villanueva, 2010) and The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (co-authored with Carolyn McCaskill, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill).