Anne Harper Charity Hudley

Anne Harper Charity Hudley is an Assistant Professor of English, Linguistics, and Africana Studies and the inaugural William and Mary Professor of Community Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. Her research and publications address the relationship between language variation and Pre K-16 educational practices and policies. Her publications appear in journals including 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 several book collections including the Handbook of African-American Psychology, Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Her book, Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, co-authored with Christine Mallinson of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is forthcoming from Teachers College Press in the Multicultural Education Series.
Charity Hudley has served 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 serves on the 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 has worked with K-12 teachers through lectures and workshops sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, public, and independent schools throughout the country. Dr. Hudley was also featured in the recent article "Linguistics and Engagement: In Class with Anne Charity Hudley".
Dr. Charity Hudley earned both a BA and a MA in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1998. She was awarded a Ford Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in 2003. From 2003-2005, she was the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow 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. She was selected as the Virginia State Council of Higher Education Rising Star Outstanding Faculty Nominee for the College of William and Mary in 2009. She was awarded the 2010 William and Mary Image Award from the William and Mary chapter of the NAAC] and the Student Assembly Department of Diversity Initiatives.

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