Concordia University, Canada

•  Charles Reiss, Associate Professor, Linguistics Program (has taught at Boston University)

Institut de la Communication Parlée, CNRS, Institut National Polytechnique, Grenoble, France

•  Pauline Welby, Postdoctoral fellow

Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Athens, Greece

• Eleni Efthimiou, Senior Researcher

Lund University, Sweden

• Halldór Ármann Sigur∂sson, Guest Professor (gästlärare) and Researcher, Department of Scandinavian Languages (and Professor of Linguistics, University of Iceland - on leave)

McGill University, Canada

• Robert A. Crouch, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Biomedical Ethics Unit  
• Rachel I. Mayberry*, Associate Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders [see statement]
• Jon Nissenbaum, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
• Lisa Travis, Associate Professor of Linguistics

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University of New England, Australia

• Dorothea Cogill-Koez, Sign Language Researcher

University College London (UCL), England

• Michael Brody, Professor of Linguistics
• Neil Smith, Professor of Linguistics; Head of the Linguistics Section (since 1972); and Postgraduate Tutor, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics

University of Barcelona, Spain

• Josep Quer, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Department of General Linguistics

University of British Columbia, Canada

• Sonya Bird, Postdoctoral fellow
• Gunnar Ólafur Hansson, Assistant Professor
• Lisa Matthewson, Assistant Professor (has taught at Boston University)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• Dr. Lorraine Leeson*, Director, Center for Deaf Studies

University of Durham, England

• Judith M. Collins, Coordinator for the teaching of British Sign Language, Department of Linguistics and Language Center

University of Geneva, Switzerland

• Nathalie Niederberger, Postdoctoral researcher in Developmental Psycholinguistics

University of Iceland, Reykjavík

• Höskuldur Thráinsson, Professor of Icelandic Linguistics

University of Manitoba, Canada

• Judith Yoel, Sessional Faculty Member, Department of Linguistics

University of Milan, Italy

• Carlo Cecchetto, Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Language, Department of Psychology

Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

• Alessandro Zucchi, Associate Professor of Lingusitics

University of New South Wales, Australia

• Debra Aarons, Linguistics Department Faculty (BU Ph.D. 1994)

University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands

• Marco Haverkort, Professor, Department of Linguistics (and former Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University)
• Onno Crasborn, Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Linguistics

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada

• Anne-Marie Parisot, Professeure, Département de linguistique et de didactique des langues  
• Anne Rochette, Professor of Linguistics (and Editor of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics)

University of Sydney, Australia

• Jane Simpson*, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics [see statement]

University of Toronto, Canada

• Ana T. Pérez-Leroux,* Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics [see statement]

University of Tours, France

• Laurie Tuller, Professor of linguistics, Department of linguistics

Università di Urbino, Italy

• Caterina Donati, Faculty Member, Facoltà di Lingue

Ball State University

• Herbert F. W. Stahlke, Professor, Department of English (also a member of the LSA Undergraduate Programs Advisory Committee)

Brandeis University

Ray Jackendoff*, Professor and Chair, Linguistics Program (and LSA past President) [see statement]

California State University, Northridge

• Sharon M. Klein, Professor, Department of English and Linguistics/ESL
• Barbara Kroll, Professor, Department of English, and Coordinator of Linguistics/ESL.
• Evelyn McClave, Professor, Department of English
• Sabrina Peck, Professor of Elementary Education; Professor, Interdisciplinary Linguistics / TESL Program

California State University, Sacramento

• Donald A. Grushkin, Assistant Professor and Director of the ASL Program

Cornell University

• Molly Diesing, Professor, Department of Linguistics

Emory University

• Steve Batterson, Associate Profesor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Gallaudet University

• Ben Bahan, Professor and Director of the MA Program, Department of ASL and Deaf Studies (BU Ph.D., 1996)
• Laurene Gallimore, Professor and Director of the Deaf Education program, Department of Education
• Barbara Kannapell, ASL Researcher and Adjunct Professor, Department of ASL and Deaf Studies ["the lead person responsible for seeing the DC ASL Bill through the legal process"]

Georgetown University

• Raffaella Zanuttini, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Zenzi M. Griffin, Assistant Professor, School of Psychology

Harvard University

• Dylan Thurston, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Harvard University Medical School

• Betsy Kammerer, Associate in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Boston, and Instructor, Harvard Medical School.

Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT

•  Martha Tyrone, Postdoctoral researcher

Indiana University of PA

• Jeannine M. Fontaine, Associate Professor, English Department 

Johns Hopkins University

• William Badecker, Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science
• Luigi Burzio, Professor and Chairman, Department of Cognitive Science
• Robert Frank, Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science

Lehigh University

• Laura Gonnerman, Assistant Professor of Psychology (BU CLA alumna)

MIT

• Suzanne Flynn, Professor, Department Linguistics and Philosophy
• Wayne O'Neil, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
• David Pesetsky, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages & Linguistics
• Kai von Fintel, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy

New York University

• Paul Postal, Research Professor, Department of Linguistics

NTID/RIT (National Technical Institute of the Deaf/ Rochester Institute of Technology)

• Frank C. Caccamise, Professor, Department of Research and Center for Research, Teaching and Learning
• Lynn Finton, Assistant Professor, American Sign Language and Interpreting Education
• Marilyn K. Mitchell, Retired Associate Professor and Grant Director
• Christine Monikowski, Associate Professor, American Sign Language and Interpreting Education

Northeastern University

• Dennis Cokely*, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Director, American Sign Language Program [see article]
• Harlan Lane*, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology [has expressed willingness to appear before the CAS APC, if invited]
• Janet Randall*, Associate Professor and Director of the Linguistics Program [see statement]

Northwestern University

• Lotus Goldberg, Department of Linguistics

Ohio State University

• Robert D. Levine, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

Portland State University

• G. Tucker Childs, Professor of Applied Linguistics

Purdue University

• Diane Brentari, Professor, Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences

Rutgers University

• Veneeta Dayal*, Professor of Linguistics
• Jane Grimshaw*, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University (former Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers) [see statement]
• Roger Schwarzschild, Associate Professor of Linguistics
• Bruce Tesar, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Center for Cognitive Science

Stanford University

• Joan Bresnan, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics (also LSA past President) [see statement]

SUNY at Stony Brook

• Robert Hoberman, Professor, Department of Linguistics

Swarthmore

• Donna Jo Napoli*, Professor (and former Chair) of Linguistics [see statement]

Syracuse University

• Jaklin Kornfilt, Professor of Linguistics and Chair, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

University of Arizona

• Diane Ohala, Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Linguistics
• Ofelia Zepeda, Professor, Departments of Linguistics and American Indian Studies (recipient of MacArthur award)

UC-Berkeley

• Sharon Inkelas, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
• Eve Sweetser*, Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Cognitive Science Program [see statement]

UCLA

• Tim Stowell, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics
• Susan Curtiss, Professor of Linguistics

UC-San Diego

David Perlmutter**, Professor of Linguistics (and LSA past President) [see the LSA statement]

UC Santa Cruz

•  Michela Ippolito, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
• Jaye Padgett, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

University of Chicago

• Jerry Sadock*, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of Linguistics
  
  See also comments of John Goldsmith, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science

University of Colorado

• Lise Menn, Professor of Linguistics and Chair, Department of Linguistics; formerly Research Assistant Professor, Neurology (Neurolinguistics), Boston University School of Medicine Aphasia Research Center

University of Connecticut

• Jonathan Bobaljik, Associate Professor of Linguistics
• Susi Wurmbrand, Assistant Professor of Linguistics

University of Delaware

• Julie Anne Legate, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

University of Georgia

• Ellen Neidle, Professor of Microbiology

University of Hawaii, Manoa

• Kamil Ud Deen, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
• Amy Schafer, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

University of Illinois at Chicago

• Lennard J. Davis*, Professor: Department of English (former Department Head), College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Disability and Human Development, College of Health and Human Development Sciences; Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine [see article, letter]

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Lyn Frazier, Professor, Department of Linguistics
• Christopher Potts, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
• Robert A. Rothstein, Professor of Judaic and Slavic Studies and of Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics

University of Michigan

• Patrice Speeter Beddor,  Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics

University of Mississippi

• Rebecca Larche Moreton, Retired Professor of French

University of New Mexico

• Barbara J. Shaffer,  Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Signed Language Interpreting Program

University of North Carolina

• Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Linguistics (and LSA past President) [see statement]

University of Pennsylvania

• Mark Mandel, Computational linguist; currently Research Administrator for the Linguistic Data Consortium (previously chief linguist at Dragon Systems)
• Martha Palmer, Associate Professor of Computer Science

University of Pittsburgh

• David Quinto-Pozos, Lecturer in Linguistics and Director, Less Commonly Taught Languages Center

University of Southern California

• Barry Schein, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

University of Southern Maine

• Judy Shepard-Kegl, Professor of Linguistics and Coordinator of the ASL/English Interpreting Program
• Dana McDaniel, Professor, Department of Linguistics
• Brenda Schertz, Lecturer, Department of Linguistics

University of Texas

• Anthony C. Woodbury, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics
• R. Perry Connolly, ASL Lecturer, Department of Linguistics
• Elizabeth Keating, Associate Professor, Anthropology
• Jonas Kuhn, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
• Franky Ramont, ASL Lecturer, Department of Linguistics

University of Vermont

• Virginia P. Clark, Professor Emeritus of English

University of Virginia

• Ellen Contini-Morava,* Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
• Christopher Krentz, Assistant Professor, Department of English

University of Washington

• Emily M. Bender, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

Wesleyan University

• Kevin Wiliarty, Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Letters

Wheelock College

• Maya Honda, Human Development Department

Yale University

• Stephen R. Anderson, Professor of Linguistics (Chair), Psychology and Cognitive Science [see statement]
• Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology
• Laurence R. Horn, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Linguistics [see statement]
• Charles Yang, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science    

The long list of those who signed the petition also includes the following individuals:

• Sharon Applegate, Executive Director, DEAF, Inc.
• Michael Canale, Program Director, Services to Students with Disabilities, Columbia Teachers College
• Jackie Emmart, Executive Assistant, DEAF, Inc.
• Nancy Frishberg, Sign language linguist, ASL/English interpreter, and software developer
• Leslie Greer, current president of the American Sign Language Teachers Association, ASLTA.
• Kip Opperman, former Director of the Office of Disability Services at Boston University (currently Coordinator/Visiting Instructor, Educational Interpreting Program, Corning Community College)
• John Pirone, Vice President/Chair of Legal/Advocacy committee, Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf (MSAD)
• Louis Rivas, President, Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf (MSAD)