Nina Feygl Semushina University of Chicago

Nina Semushina is an associate director of the research labs at the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. They study the effect of gesture on mathematics learning (children and adults, deaf and hearing), language acquisition, and numbers in sign languages. They have a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Anthropogeny from the University of California, San Diego, and worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Susan Goldin-Meadow at the University of Chicago and Ruth B. Church at the Northeastern Illinois University. In their spare time, they write fiction, go to Renaissance fairs or LARP, or study language acquisition in the wild.