M.A. in Deaf Studies with a Concentration in Sign Language, Gallaudet University, 2012
B.A. in Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University, 2002
Research Interests
L1 and L2 acquisition
Deaf history
Bilingual and biliteracy in Deaf Education
Deaf cultural studies
Deaf neurology and the Deaf brain
Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications
Greene-Woods, A., Delgado, N. J., Buchanan, B., Sides, M., Behmanesh, A. A., Cheslik, B., Koo, C. K., & Clark, M. D. (2020). Deaf cultural capital and its conflicts with hearing culture: Navigational 番茄社区es and failures. JADARA, 54(1), 15-30. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/jadara/vol54/iss1/2
Sanjabi, A., Behmanesh, A.A., Guity, A., Siyavoshi, S., Watkins, M., & Hochgesang, J.A. (2016). Zaban Eshareh Irani (ZEI) and its Fingerspelling System. Sign Language Studies, 16(4), 500-534.
Recent Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Behmanesh, A. (2006). Iranian Deaf Culture. In H. Goodstein [Ed.] The Deaf Way II Reader: Perspective from the Second International Conference on Deaf Culture, pp.193-198.Gallaudet University Press
Recent Presentations
Behmanesh, A. (2016). First Iranian Living Overseas, presenter ofIranian Deaf Culture and Interpreter Training 番茄社区, Hamburg, Germany.
Dissertation Focus
Deaf educational assistants in Iran: Overcoming barriers and restraints to lead in the classroom