Teaching
Awards
UCSD Linguistics Department Distinguished Achievement in Service Award for the 2022-2023 school year
Changemaker Fellowship in Anti-Racist Pedagogy for the 2021-2022 school year
UCSD Linguistics Department TA Excellence Award for the 2019-2020 school year
Training & Certificates
Recognition of Expertise in Equitable and Evidence-Based Teaching Program, UCSD Teaching & Learning Commons, (in progress)
UCSD Summer Graduate Teaching Scholars program, UCSD Teaching & Learning Commons, Spring-Summer 2024
Advanced College Teaching (10-week course in equity-minded and student-centered course design), Spring 2024
Certificate of Completion in Student-Centered College Teaching and Course Design, Spring 2024
Leadership in Teaching: Graduate Peer Review of Instruction Program, Summer 2024
Changemaker Fellow in Anti-Racist Pedagogy Learning Community, UCSD Teaching & Learning Commons, Fall 2021-Winter 2022
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Learning Community, UCSD Teaching & Learning Commons, Fall 2020
Projects
Anti-Racist and Inclusive Linguistics Pedagogy
Co-organizer of the Anti-Racist and Inclusive Linguistics Pedagogy talk series in the UCSD Linguistics Department
Co-creator of the Anti-Racist and Inclusive Linguistics Pedagogy resource website (to be made public soon)
Co-organizer of the Anti-Racist and Inclusive Linguistics Pedagogy learning community in the UCSD Linguistics Department
Co-creator of the Anti-Racist and Inclusive Linguistics Pedagogy graduate student fellowship program in the UCSD Linguistics department
Contributor to the creation of a History of Phonetics course through a social justice lens at UCSD Linguistics taught by Marc Garellek
Garellek, M., Nielson, S., Rhodes, T. L., Clem, E. (2023). Infusing social justice in the development and instruction of a course on the history of phonetics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3-supplement)
Garellek, M., Nielson, S., Rhodes, T., Clem, E. (2023, August 7-11). An Inclusive Course on the History of Phonetics. [Poster session]. International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Teaching Experience
Associate-In @UCSD
Sign Languages & Their Cultures, LIGN7
Summer 2024
Teaching Assistant @UCSD
Sign Languages & Their Cultures, LIGN7
Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
Languages & Cultures of America, LIGN8
Winter 2020
Psycholinguistics of Gesture & Sign Language, LIGN148
Spring 2022
Language Representation in the Brain, LIGN180
Spring 2021
Language Processing in the Brain, LIGN181
Spring 2020
Culture and Society in International Perspective: Language Policy, INTL101
Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
Guest Lecture Topics
Sign Language Phonology
Sign Language Phonological Development
Late First Language Acquisition (Critical Period for Language)
Sign Language Processing in the Brain
Sign Language Acquisition
US Deaf History & Cultures
Tactile Sign Languages