Russell S. Rosen, Ph.D., is the coordinator of the Program in American Sign Language and Program in Disability Studies at the City University of New York College of Staten Island. Rosen’s publications and research interests are in the anthropology and history of Deaf people and their community and culture and applied linguistics of ASL. He has served on the editorial board of several academic journals and as the president of boards of several schools for the Deaf. Rosen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago and a doctorate degree in education from Columbia University.