Anne Charity Hudley's Blog

Government and Linguistics major Kira Allmann is William and Mary's newest Rhodes Scholar!

Next Wednesday we will officially launch the new minor in Community Studies! The Community Studies minor is designed to complement any academic major and will support students in their integration of community-based research and activities into their academic plans of study.

The grant will fund the launch of a project designed to examine effective methods of communicating issues about language variation to K-12 educators.

Chappell Fellow Rachel Granata is keeping a blog of our summer research experiences. You may read her blog at: {{http://ragran.wmblogs.net/}}

My senior thesis student Daniel Villarreal is my guest blogger for this entry. Daniel's senior thesis proposal is included in the Honors Fellowship Program-- a new initiative at the College that allows donors to donate to individual faculty/student research projects.

In the summer, I like to visit other schools to broaden my teaching experience and to make new personal and professional connections that I can then share with my students at William and Mary. This summer I will be co-teaching a one week workshop on language variation for educators at Virginia Commonwealth University with Christine Mallinson and William and Mary graduate Hannah Askin '07. The workshop is open to all.

Linguists have not been shy about promoting social change.

I start all of my classes with a common assignment, the writing of a linguistic autobiography.

The question endures in part because there is no one easy answer.