Anne H. Charity Hudley
Anne H. Charity Hudley is an American linguist who studies how language changes in U.S. classrooms and how this affects learning, race, and achievement. Since 2021 she has been a professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. She earned a BA from Harvard University and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.
Her career includes teaching and research at the College of William & Mary (2005–2017), where she was the William and Mary Professor of Community Studies and helped run the William & Mary Scholars Undergraduate Experience. She then held the North Hall Endowed Chair at UC Santa Barbara before joining Stanford.
Hudley is also a Trustee at the Center for Applied Linguistics. Her work aims to bring sociolinguistics to educators so they can understand how dialect and language variation relate to student success.
In the Linguistic Society of America, Hudley has held leadership roles and served on the Executive Committee. She contributes to journals such as Language and Language & Linguistics Compass, and co-authored the book We Do Language with Christine Mallinson. She has spoken about language, bias, and justice on radio and in the press. In 2021 she became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2022 a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
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