Lance Forshay

Teaching Professor and ASL Language Director

Contact Information

GUG 417
Office Hours
Spring 2025: 11:00 am-12:00 pm MWF or email for appointment.

Biography

B.A. Secondary Education and Mathematics, Gallaudet University, 1992.
M.S. Ministry, Ambridge University, 1998.

Lance Forshay has been an ASL minor program director and lecturer at the University of Washington since its beginning in 2007. He earned his BA in Mathematics and Secondary Education in 1992 from Gallaudet University and MS in Ministry in 1998 from Southern Christian University. Teaching experience spans over30+ years with wide variety of educational subjects and settings from high school to university levels, from tutoring to interpreter mentorship, and from church classes to residential schools for the deaf.  Teaching ASL and Deaf studies became his primary career field in 1999.  His interests are Deaf Culture Studies, Audism and Oppressions in the Deaf community, Deaf Christian Heritage, ASL Fingerspelling Phonology,  ASL Verb Morphology, and Sign Vocabulary Etymology.

Awards and Honors

UW Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, 2014

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