Shirley Brice Heath

Professor at Large and Professor of Anthropology and Education

Watson Institute 318
(401) 863-3261 (phone)
(401) 863-1276 (fax)
Shirley_Brice_Heath@brown.edu

Heath comes to Brown's Education Department after two decades of teaching at Stanford University in the Departments of English, Linguistics, and Anthropology, as well as Stanford's Graduate Schools of Education and Business. Central in her current research is later language and multi-media literacy development (for learners between the ages of 8 and 28) and the voluntary engagement of young people in long-term projects that center in the arts, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, she has carried out research in Mexico, Guatemala, South Africa, the United States, England, Germany, and Sweden. Her publications range across four major areas: language socialization, organizational learning, youth culture, and language planning. Beyond academic publications, she is also dedicated to providing research for a wide audience in video/film, photographic exhibitions, and popular journals. She has produced and directed several documentary films, and she writes regularly for youth arts magazines.

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