Timothy Reagan

Timothy Reagan
Occupation	Professor
Employer	University of Maine
Known for	Sign language policy and planning; language education
Alma mater	Michigan State University University of Illinois System

Timothy Reagan is a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine. His work has addressed language policy and planning, sign languages, and educational thought and practice.

Education

Reagan earned a B.A. in History from Michigan State University, completed between 1974 and 1977. He subsequently earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois system, completed between 1977 and 1982.

Career

Reagan began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in Educational Foundations and Research at Gallaudet University from 1983 to 1985. He then served as an Associate Professor in Teacher Education at Central Connecticut State University from 1986 to 1990.

From 1990 to 2004, Reagan was Executive Associate Dean of the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He subsequently served as Dean of the School of Education at Roger Williams University from 2004 to 2005.

He then served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand from 2005 to 2006. Reagan returned to Central Connecticut State University as CSU Professor of Education in Teacher Education from 2006 to 2012.

From 2012 to 2015, Reagan was Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University. He joined the University of Maine's College of Education and Human Development as Professor in 2016.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Reagan has authored 201 papers that have been cited a total of 2,803 times, yielding an h-index of 25. His research has covered language policy and planning for sign languages, non-Western educational traditions, and the ideological and linguistic status of American Sign Language and South African Sign Language.

Selected publications

• David Crystal. English as a Global Language, 2nd ed. (2005), cited 654 times
• "Non-Western educational traditions: indigenous approaches to educational thought and practice" (2010), cited 118 times
• "Objectification, Positivism and Language Studies: A Reconsideration" (2004), cited 74 times
• "Language Policy and Planning for Sign Languages" (2010), cited 50 times
• "Ideological Barriers to American Sign Language: Unpacking Linguistic Resistance" (2011), cited 43 times
• "The Properties Of South African Sign Language: Lexical Diversity & Syntactic Unity" (2013), cited 41 times
• "The Conceptualization of Language Legitimacy" (2016), cited 31 times
• "Multilingualism, citizenship, and identity: voices of youth and symbolic investments in an urban, globalised world" (2013), cited 31 times
• "'Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment through Language" (2008), cited 30 times
• "From policy to practice: sign language developments in post-apartheid South Africa" (2006), cited 30 times

External links

• ORCID profile for Timothy Reagan