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Anne Harper Charity Hudley is the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education (GSE) in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and professor of African and African-American Studies and Linguistics, by courtesy.
Anne Harper Charity Hudley was previously the North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was also Faculty in Residence for the Santa Catalina Residences and San Joaquín Villages and the Faculty Fellow for the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL) at UC Santa Barbara.
Anne was Director of Undergraduate Research for Office of Undergraduate Education at UC Santa Barbara and the Class of 1952 Associate Professor of Education, English, Linguistics, Africana Studies. She was the inaugural William and Mary Professor of Community Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. She directed the William and Mary Scholars Program and was the co-director, with Cheryl Dickter, of the William and Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience. Her research and publications address the relationship between language variation and Pre K-16 educational practices and policies and high impact practices for underrepresented students in higher education.
Her fourth book, Talking College, is co-authored with Christine Mallinson and Mary Bucholtz and appeared in early 2022 with Teachers College Press. Her third book The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research is co-authored with Cheryl Dicker and Hannah Franz and also published by Teachers College Press. Her second book, We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom, is co-authored with Christine Mallinson of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is also published by Teachers College Press in the Language and Literacy Series. Her first book Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, also co-authored with Christine Mallinson of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is also published by Teachers College Press in the Multicultural Studies Series.
Her other publications appear in journals including: Language, The Journal of English Linguistics, Child Development, Language Variation and Change, American Speech, Language and Linguistics Compass, Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, and in many book collections including the Handbook of African-American Psychology, Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Literacy Education, Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, and the Oxford Handbook of Language in Society
Charity Hudley has served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America. She has also served on the Standing Committee on Research of the National Council of Teachers of English and as a consultant to the National Research Council Committee on Language and Education and to the National Science Foundation’s Committee on Broadening Participation in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Sciences. She has served as an associate editor of Language and co-founded the Teaching Linguistics section of Language. She serves on editorial board of the Sociolinguistics division of Language and Linguistics Compass and on the Linguistic Society of America Committee on Linguistics in Higher Education as an undergraduate program representative and the chair of the subcommittee on diversity. She works with K-12 teachers through lectures and workshops sponsored by public, and independent schools throughout the country as well as by the American Federation of Teachers.
Dr. Charity Hudley is a native of Richmond, Virginia and attended St. Catherine’s School for 13 years. She earned both a BA and a MA in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1998. She was awarded a Ford Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in 2003. From 2003-2005, she was the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow in residence at Dartmouth College. She earned a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. She received a National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship in Fall 2005 and a National Science Foundation Minority Research Starter Grant in 2009 to create workshops on language variation for educators. She won the 2019 Linguistic Society of America Linguistics, Language, and The Public Award for her influence on the classroom experience of users of nonstandard varieties of English. She was the 2009 College of William and Mary nominee for the Virginia State Council of Higher Education Outstanding Faculty Award in the Rising Star category and was also a nominee in 2012 and in 2015 in the general category. The William and Mary chapter of the NAACP and the Student Assembly Department of Diversity Initiatives awarded her the 2010 William and Mary Image Award as the individual who best embodies the spirit of a vibrant and diverse William and Mary community.
Anne H. Charity Hudley, PhD 