From 2005 to 2017, Charity Hudley was associate professor of
education,
English, and
linguistics and the William and Mary Professor of Community Studies at the
College of William and Mary. She also co-directed the William and Mary Scholars Undergraduate Experience (WMSURE) and was affiliated with the
Africana Studies and
Women's Studies programs. Thereafter, she held the North Hall endowed chair at the
University of California, Santa Barbara before moving to Stanford in 2021. Since 2021, Charity Hudley is Professor of Education at the
Stanford University Graduate School of Education (GSE). She is additionally a Trustee at the
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL). Charity Hudley's research focus is the language of the American classroom, its relevance for the study of race and
ethnicity, and how language use in the classroom relates to (and affects) educational attainment. This work aims at bringing knowledge of the field of
sociolinguistics to educators, and helps us understand the ways in which literacy, dialect, and individual variation interact. Charity Hudley has been actively involved in leadership roles in the
Linguistic Society of America. Charity Hudley was the undergraduate program representative and chair of the subcommittee on diversity on the
Linguistic Society of America Committee on Linguistics in Higher Education from 2009 to 2016, and in 2018 she was part of a special session held at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City addressing topics of bias, power dynamics, and harassment in linguistics. She served as a member of the
Linguistic Society of America Executive Committee from 2017 to 2020. == Honors and distinctions ==