About

John Baugh is an Emeritus Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. His research interests include Diversity and Identity, Literacy and Language, and Sociology. He is also listed as Emeritus Faculty and a member of the Academic Council at the Graduate School of Education. His work focuses on improving lives through learning, and he has a notable presence in the academic community, with a full profile available on Stanford Profiles. Baugh's contributions are recognized within the context of education, language, and social identity, emphasizing the importance of diversity and literacy in educational settings.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Linguistics
• Computer Science
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Mathematics
• Law
• Communication
• Gender studies
• History
• Social psychology
• Geography

Selected publications

• Building Safe Autonomous Systems Using Imperfect Components

  Lecture notes in computer science · 2026-01-01

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• E Pluribus Unum:

  Channel View Publications eBooks · 2024-05-14

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• 19 E Pluribus Unum: Black and Brown Linguistic Liberation in US Schools and Society

  Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2024-05-16 · 1 citations

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• Linguistic Profiling across International Geopolitical Landscapes

  Daedalus · 2023-01-01 · 7 citations

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  Abstract Voice recognition lies at the heart of linguistic profiling, a discriminatory practice whereby goods, services, or opportunities that might otherwise be available are denied to someone, typically sight unseen, based on the sound of their voice. The technology that faithfully recreates one's voice during phone conversations provides the basis on which nefarious, if not illegal, voice-derived discrimination occurs. These denials often go undetected because callers typically believe that the declination of their request for an apartment or a job or a loan is valid; that is, they do not necessarily assume that they were turned down because of negative stereotypes about their speech. I debunk a long-standing myth that exists among well-educated native speakers of the dominant language(s) in the countries where they live: namely, that such individuals speak without an accent. After dispelling this prevalent falsehood, I explore various forms of linguistic profiling throughout the world, culminating with observations intended to promote linguistic human rights and the aspirational goal of equality among people who do not share common sociolinguistic backgrounds.

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• Ethnographic Interviewing

  2023-10-06 · 2 citations

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  Students will practice conducting interviews with family members to create a genealogical tree diagram that includes the names of family relatives and the language(s) they speak. More advanced students may produce additional assignments writing about their family’s linguistic heritage.

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• Linguistic Emancipation

  Language · 2023-12-01 · 1 citations

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  The term linguistic emancipation embraces various interpretations. One relates to occasions where linguists have helped people overcome problems that are attributable to various linguistic calamities. Another pertinent vector relates to methodological innovations that extricate linguistic research from methodological confinement and that embrace new technologies to help advance our collective scientific mission. These alternative perspectives are illustrated here in small measure through studies of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and gender modification in the speech of a trans woman. The legacy of inventive methodological advances in linguistics is celebrated by emphasizing some liberating linguistic research trajectories in which experimental, self-generated data and descriptive investigations of endangered and underrepresented languages or dialects stand side by side, serving a comprehensive linguistic science in which alternative analytical procedures abound in harmonious complementarity.

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• Class backwards: linguistic racism and educational malpractice in American schooling

  Aula de Encuentro · 2022-10-14 · 2 citations

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  Darder’s depiction of “Linguistic Racialization”, described herein, provides the foundation for this discussion, where raciolinguistic pedagogy has perpetuated a diverse and troubling legacy of educational malpractice against underrepresented language minority students who attend underresourced public schools throughout America. Due, in part, to paradoxical educational practices with differential access to unequal educational resources, the vast majority of linguistically disenfranchised students are often overlooked, or worse, subjected to misguided educational practices that fail to reduce academic disparities that are reinforced by poverty, unequal access to fair housing, and a lack of pedagogical dexterity that might have the potential to promote improved educational outcomes. Some policy proposals conclude this discussion, which, if implemented, could potentially overcome the history of unequal academic achievement that has resulted from a combination of De Jure and De Facto educational apartheid.

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• 5 Linguistics for Legal Purposes

  Multilingual Matters eBooks · 2022-07-14

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• Industrial Symbiosis Waste Exchange Identification and Optimization

  Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2021-01-01 · 2 citations

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  Industrial symbiosis is the concept that waste from industrial processes can be diverted and then reused as inputs into co-located industrial entities. While research to date has identified successful examples of industrial symbiosis and characterized formation processes, little is known about how new eco-industrial parks can be designed and their performance optimized. In this paper, we describe how industrial symbiosis can be modeled and optimized during the development phase to assist in the creation of eco-industrial parks. We present a database framework, waste exchange identification algorithm, and Python-based optimization system that generates a mixed-integer linear programming model to minimize the amount of non-recycled waste produced. We illustrate the functionality of the approach on three test cases that demonstrate increasing levels of complexity. The optimization model can also accommodate multiple objectives, allowing further exploration of the benefits of industrial symbiosis at the design stage.

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• African-American English

  Routledge eBooks · 2021 · 17 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Edward Finegan

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• John R. Rickford

  American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  5 shared

• Mauro Fernández

  International Geographical Union

  4 shared

• Bernd Spolsky

  University of Cape Town

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• Diana Eades

  International Geographical Union

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• Penny Eckert

  International Geographical Union

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• Paul Kerswill

  International Geographical Union

  4 shared

• Wim Vandebussche

  International Geographical Union

  4 shared