Shirley Heath

Shirley Brice Heath is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University.^[1]

She graduated from Lynchburg College, Ball State University, and Columbia University, with a Ph.D. in 1970. She is a Brown University professor-at-large,^[2] and a visiting research professor at the Watson Institute.^[3][4]

Awards

• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
• Ford Foundation fellowship
• Rockefeller Foundation fellowship
• 1995 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Education

Works

• Ways with Words: Language, Life, And Work In Communities And Classrooms, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 9780521273190

• Identity and Inner-city Youth: Beyond Ethnicity And Gender, Editors Shirley Brice Heath, Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin, Teachers College Press, 1993, ISBN 9780807732526
• Language in the USA, Editors Charles Albert Ferguson, Shirley Brice Heath, David Hwang, CUP Archive, 1981, ISBN 9780521298346
• Children of promise: literate activity in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms, Editor Shirley Brice Heath, NEA Professional Library, National Education Association, 1991, ISBN 9780810618442

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