Education

• Ph.D. 2008 University of Texas at Austin
• M.A. 2002 University of Texas at Austin
• B.A. 1994 Brown University

Teaching Interests

• Linguistics
• sociolinguistics
• linguistic anthropology

Ginger Pizer teaches courses in linguistics and linguistic anthropology. Her research focuses on signed languages and gesture. She has studied the use of “baby signs” between hearing parents and hearing infants, the adaptations that deaf parents make to their American Sign Language when they address their deaf infants, and language choices in families with deaf parents and hearing children. Her current projects focus primarily on gesture in instructional contexts, including dance instruction.