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Stanton Wortham

Inaugural Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean

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Stanton Wortham

Ph.D.

Contact

Campion Hall Room 101

Telephone: 617-552-3902

Email: stanton.wortham@bc.edu

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Education

  • Ph.D., The University of Chicago
  • B.A., Swarthmore College

Research Interests

Discourse analysis, Linguistic anthropology of education, Identity and learning, Narrative self-construction, New Latino disapora

Expertise

  • Bilingualism & Immigration
  • Formative and Whole Person Education
  • Philosophy of Education
Curriculum Vitae

Profile

An award-winning teacher, scholar, and documentary film producer, Stanton E.F. Wortham, Ph.D., is the Lynch School's inaugural Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean. A linguistic anthropologist and educational ethnographer with a particular expertise in how identities develop in human interactions, Wortham has conducted research spanning education, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and philosophy. He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 100 articles and chapters that cover a range of topics including linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, learning identity, and education in the new Latino diaspora.

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
  • Helping to lead and hosting the Global Education Deans Forum
  • Working with the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to evaluate Hyukshin Schools
  • Convening global scholars to envision whole person education betting well-being

New Book Release

Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions

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鈥淭his book offers an ambitious, sociohistorically-informed examination of Mexican migrants' trajectories within an East Coast community, revealed through participant observation in diverse spaces and analyses of narratives told about immigrants in this town. Complex, nuanced and compelling: a must-read for anyone interested in how local histories intersect to shape contemporary experiences of migration.鈥� 鈥擬arjorie Faulstich Orellana, Professor of Education and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of International Migration, UCLA, USA

Select Publications

  • Migration narratives: Diverging stories in schools, churches, and civic institutions. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. (Stanton Wortham, Briana Nichols, Katherine Clonan-Roy & Catherine Rhodes)聽
  • Discourse analysis beyond the speech event. New York: Routledge, 2015. (Revised and expanded second edition published by Routledge, 2021). (Stanton Wortham & Angela Reyes)聽
  • Encyclopedia of language and education, Volume 3: Discourse and education (Stanton Wortham & Deoksoon Kim, Editors). New York: Springer, 2017.聽
  • Revisiting education in the New Latino Diaspora (Edmund Hamann, Stanton Wortham & Enrique Murillo, Editors). Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, 2015.聽
  • Bullish on uncertainty: How organizational cultures transform participants. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. (Alexandra Michel & Stanton Wortham)聽
  • Learning identity: The joint emergence of social identification and academic learning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.聽
  • Linguistic anthropology of education (Stanton Wortham & Betsy Rymes, Editors). Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.聽
  • Education in the new Latino diaspora: Policy and the politics of identity (Stanton Wortham, Enrique Murillo & Edmund Hamann, Editors). Westport, CT: Ablex, 2002.聽
  • Narratives in action: A strategy for research and analysis. New York: Teachers College Press, 2001.聽
  • Acting out participant examples in the classroom. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994.

Teaching and Administrative Experience

  • Assistant Professor of Education, Bates College (1993-1998)聽
  • Assistant Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania (1998-2000)
  • Associate Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania (2000-2004)
  • Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania (2004-2016)
  • Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania (2006-2016)
  • Chair, Educational Leadership Division, University of Pennsylvania GSE (2000-2004)
  • Chair, Education, Culture & Society Division, University of Pennsylvania GSE (2011-2015)
  • Acting Dean, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (2002)
  • Interim Dean, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (2006-2007)
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Pennsylvania GSE (2004-2006; 2007-2015)
  • Faculty Director of Online Learning, University of Pennsylvania (2015-2016)
  • Member, Anthropology Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania (1999-2016)
  • Charles Donovan, S.J., Dean, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, 艾可直播 College (2016-present)

Honors and Awards

  • National Academy of Education, Elected Member (2019- )聽
  • Society for Linguistic Anthropology Sapir Book Prize (2016)聽
  • University of Pennsylvania Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching (2013)聽
  • University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Excellence in Teaching Award (2012)聽
  • American Educational Research Association Cattell Early Career Research Award (2001)聽
  • Maine Campus Compact Faculty Service-Learning Award (1997)聽
  • Phi Beta Kappa (1985)聽
  • Swarthmore College Honors Program, B.A. with highest honors (1983 1985)

Grants & Fellowships

  • American Educational Research Association Fellow (2009)聽
  • William T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow (2008-2010)聽
  • National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow (1996-1997)聽
  • Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow (1991-1992)聽
  • National Graduate (Javits) Fellow (1986 1988)聽
  • University of Chicago Century Fellow (1985 1989)
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