Professor Emerita, Linguistics & Language Development

Email

Preferred: rosemary.henze@sjsu.edu

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford Univ, 1988. Education and Anthropology
• Master of Arts, English -Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, San Francisco State University, 1981.
• Bachelor of Arts, University of California Santa Cruz, 1974. Arts and Crafts and their History

Bio

Dr. Rosemary Henze is an educational anthropologist whose teaching, research, and educational projects seek to enhance social justice and equity in education. She applies concepts and methods from anthropology and linguistics to the study of race relations, immigration and multilingualism, Islamophobia, and the spread of English, among other topics. Her most recent recent publications are How real is race? Unraveling race, biology, and culture, 3rd Edition (with Mukhopadhyay and Moses), Rowman and Littlefield/Bloomsbury, 2025; and The anthropology of education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2020. Between 2012-2014, she served as President of the Council on Anthropology and Education.  Her additional languages include Greek, French, and Spanish.

Links

 

•  Department of Linguistics and Language Development

•  How Real is Race? Unraveling Race, Biology and Culture (3rd Edition) 2025

•  Complimentary online resources for How real is race?, 3rd Edition

•  Just a Piece of Cloth documentary video website

•  Just a Piece of Cloth video (2013)