Professor of American Sign Language
University of Kansas Edwards Campus
Petra Horn-Marsh, PhD, is a professor of the practice of the ASL (American Sign Language) and deaf studies undergraduate program at University of Kansas-Edwards campus.
On the community level, she is a co-coordinator of ASL Curriculum Instruction and Assessment, president and one of the co-founders of National American Sign Language Education of Heritage Language Learners. Additionally, Horn-Marsh has served on the Kansas Senate Bill 323 Advisory Committee to develop a statewide language assessment program for deaf and hard-of-hearing children ages 0-8. She co-wrote an article, Bilingual Students Publish Works in ASL and English, with Kester Horn-Marsh in the spring 2009 issue of Odyssey magazine.
She graduated from Gallaudet University with a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and history, and a master’s degree in history and doctorate degree in sociology from Utah State University. She also completed a deaf education certification program at the University of Kansas.