[3] He earned his Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Communication and Language Learning at Union Institute & University in 1977.
[1][4] Humphries is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the San Diego branch of the University of California.
[1] One way of framing his major area of interest is summarized in the abstract of his 2010 Lyons Lecture at the Rochester School for the Deaf: The processes of deaf identity construction are not unique phenomena but echo the experience of other embedded cultural groups, particularly those that are stressed by the assertion of hegemony over them by others.
Du Bois, who struggled with similar issues, offer us ways to think about the complicated discourses of Deaf culture and the local social histories in which Deaf culture is constructed.
[5]Humphries' published writings encompass 43 works in 78 publications in 7 languages and 5,474 library holdings.