Instructor in Communication

Education
Christine Law is a doctoral candidate in Teaching and Learning, and Qualitative Research Emphasis at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is studying the complex interactions between deaf and hearing individuals as they seek intercultural understanding. Christine is affiliated with the UCSB Center for Teaching for Social Justice. She received an M.A. in English and Education, and a B.A. in Communications.

Current Duties
Christine Law teaches Interpersonal Communications, Persuasion, Introduction to Writing for the Print Media, and Reading Improvement.

Current Research Interests
Her research interests include Deaf community and education, community ethnography, equity and inclusion, diverse identities, and intercultural communication.  

Current Research Projects
Christine Law is currently writing her dissertation entitled, Chinese Immigrant Deaf in America.

Recent Publications and Presentations
Conference on College Composition and Communication, workshop facilitator, Race, Space and Place: Language, Identity and Students of Color in the Composition Classroom, (chaired by Geneva Smitherman) Spring 2006

Conference on College Composition and Communication, paper presentation, Magic in a Different World: Discourse between the Deaf and Hearing, Spring 2005

University of California Santa Barbara’s Writing Research in the Making, section chair, and paper presentation, Student’s Written Responses to the Henrietta Marie Slave Ship Exhibit, Winter 2005

Second Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, paper session, Deaf Education—A Journey Towards Inclusion, Summer 2003

University of California Santa Barbara Second Annual Education Conference, poster presentation, Deaf Education: A Journey through Shadow and Light, Spring 2003

University of California Riverside Graduate Conference, paper session, Acculturation of Chinese in America, Fall 1998

“Using Argumentation to Teach Literature”, in Exercise Exchange, Spring 1998