Biographical / Historical
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Conditions Governing Access
Preferred Citation
Scope and Contents
Conditions Governing Use
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John R. Rickford Papers
Creator:
Rickford, John R.
Identifier/Call Number: SC1515
Physical Description:
11.75 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1975-2009
Language of Material: English
Physical Location: Special Collections
and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance.
For more information on paging collections, see the department's website:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Biographical / Historical
"John R. Rickford is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities
at Stanford University. He is also professor by courtesy in Education, and Pritzker
University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He has been at Stanford since 1980.
He received his BA with highest honors in Sociolinguistics from the University of
California, Santa Cruz, in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1979. He won a Dean's Award for distinguished teaching in 1984 and a Bing
Fellowship for excellence in teaching in 1992.
The primary focus of his research and teaching is sociolinguistics, the relation between
linguistic variation and change and social structure. He is especially interested in the
relation between language and ethnicity, social class and style, language variation and
change, pidgin and creole languages, African American Vernacular English, and the
applications of linguistics to educational problems." (Exerpt from
https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-rickford)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of John R. Rickford, 2019.
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original
format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item] John R. Rickford Papers (SC1515). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of conference materials, projects, papers, and notes
related to his work in linguistics. It also includes photographs and an audiorecording of a
Rosa Parks press conference at Stanford in 1990.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the
original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational
purposes.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sociolinguistics
Humanities -- Study and teaching.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
African Americans
Rickford, John R.
Stanford University. Department of Linguistics.
Faculty