Rate My Professor Anne Harper Charity Hudley

Anne Harper Charity Hudley, Ph.D., serves as Associate Dean of Educational Affairs and the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education. She holds courtesy appointments as Professor of African-American Studies and Linguistics and is affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Symbolic Systems Program, and the Black Academic Development Lab, where she is Principal Investigator. Additionally, she is the Jan Barker Alexander Resident Fellow for Ujamaa House. Prior to joining Stanford in 2021, she was the North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America at the University of California, Santa Barbara, serving also as Director of Undergraduate Research, Vice-Chair of the Council on Planning and Budget, and Faculty Fellow for the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning. Earlier positions include Class of 1952 Associate Professor of Education, English, Linguistics, and Africana Studies at the College of William & Mary, where she directed the William and Mary Scholars Program and co-directed the William and Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.

Her research examines the relationship between language variation and educational practices and policies from preschool through graduate school, emphasizing high-impact practices for underrepresented students in higher education. Charity Hudley is co-author of four books: Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools (with Christine Mallinson); We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom (with Mallinson); The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research (with Cheryl Dickter and Hannah Franz); and Talking College: Making Space for Black Linguistic Practices in Higher Education (with Mallinson and Mary Bucholtz, 2022). Her forthcoming book, Talking Faculty: Professional and Linguistic Choices for Black Faculty Thriving in U.S. Higher Education, is scheduled for 2026. She has co-edited Inclusion in Linguistics and Decolonizing Linguistics, with publications in Language, Daedalus, Linguistics and Education, and others. Awards include Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2021), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2022), Linguistic Society of America's Best Paper in Language Award (2021), and Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award (2019). She has served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America, as Associate Editor for Language, on the Standing Committee on Research of the National Council of Teachers of English, and as consultant to national committees on language, education, and STEM broadening participation. Charity Hudley delivers invited keynotes, academic lectures, K-12 teacher workshops, and contributes to community initiatives.