Stanton Wortham

Stanton Wortham is the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Education. Professor Wortham has pursued interdisciplinary studies that stretch across anthropology, education, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. At Penn, he also serves as associate faculty in the Annenberg School for Communication and in the Anthropology and Folklore Graduate Groups in the School of Arts & Sciences. He serves on the editorial boards of Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Theory & Psychology, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistics & Education, Mind, Culture & Activity, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse Processes, Pedagogies and the Journal of Latinos and Education. In 2001, he received the American Educational Research Association Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research. His training is in human development from the University of Chicago.