Contributors | International Literacy Association

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Peter Afflerbach, Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland
Dorit Aram, Professor, Head of the Early Childhood Research Lab, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Celeste Bates, Associate Professor of Literacy Education, Clemson University, SC
Rita M. Bean, Professor Emerita, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Diane Barone, Emeritus Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies, University of Nevada, Reno
Gary E. Bingham, Professor, Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Georgia State University
Stergios Botzakis, Professor of Adolescent Literacy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Marva Cappello, Professor of Teacher Education, San Diego State University, CA
Jill Castek, Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies, University of Arizona
Tanya Christ, Professor of Reading and Language Arts, Oakland University, MI
Julie Coiro, Professor of Reading Education, University of Rhode Island
Catherine Compton-Lilly, John C. Hungerpiller Professor, University of South Carolina
Denise Dávila, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin
Deborah Bergman Deitcher, Lecturer, Department of International B.A. in Liberal Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Toni Faddis, Director of Leadership Development, Equity, and Access, Chula Vista Elementary School District, CA
Tori K. Flint, Assistant Professor of Literacy/Early Childhood Education, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Evelyn Ford-Connors, Senior Lecturer in Literacy, Boston University, MA
Nancy Frey, Professor of Educational Leadership, San Diego State University, CA
Antero Garcia, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, CA
Hope K. Gerde, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Kip Glazer, Principal, San Marcos High School, Santa Barbara Unified School District, CA
Amanda P. Goodwin, Associate Professor in Language, Literacy, and Culture, Vanderbilt University, TN
Maria Grant, Professor in Secondary Education, California State University, Fullerton
Margaret Heritage, Educational Consultant, Heritage Consulting, CA
James Hoffman, Professor of Language and Literacy, The University of North Texas
Nicholas E. Husbye, Associate Professor of Elementary Literacy Education (K–6), University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jacy Ippolito, Professor of Education, Salem State University, MA
Gay Ivey, William E. Moran Distinguished Professor in Literacy, University of North Carolina–Greensboro
Robert Jiménez, Professor of ELL and Literacy Education, Vanderbilt University, TN
Ofra Korat, Professor, School of Education, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Diane Lapp, Distinguished Professor of Education, San Diego State University, CA
Christine M. Leighton, Associate Professor of Education, Emmanuel College
Guofang Li, Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth, University of British Columbia, Canada
Amy Wilson Lopez, Associate Professor, Utah State University
Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Denise Morgan, Professor of Literacy Education, Kent State University, OH
Ernest Morrell, Coyle Professor in Literacy Education, University of Notre Dame, IN
Michelle Neumann, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia
Donna Ogle, Professor Emeritus, National Louis University, Chicago, IL
Seth A. Parsons, Professor, George Mason University, VA
Rebekah Piper, Assistant Professor of Literacy, Texas A&M University–San Antonio
Christy Wessel Powell, Assistant Professor of Literacy and Language Education, Purdue University, IN
Roberta D. Raymond, Assistant Professor of Reading and Language Arts, University of Houston–Clear Lake, TX
Louann Reid, Professor and Department Chair, Colorado State University
Victoria J. Risko, Professor Emerita, Vanderbilt University, TN
Dana A. Robertson, Executive Director of the Literacy Research Center and Clinic and Associate Professor of Teacher Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
Jennifer Rowsell, Professor of Education, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Mila Schwartz, Professor, Oranim Academic College of Education, Head of Research Authority, Tivon, Israel
Laurie A. Sharp, Associate Professor and Dean of University College, Tarleton State University, TX
Lori Skibbe, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University
Hallie Yopp Slowik, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton
Jennifer D. Turner, Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland
Vicki Vescio, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida
Jo Worthy, Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Ruth Yopp-Edwards, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton
Sarah Vander Zanden, Associate Professor of Literacy Education, University of Northern Iowa
Yanling Zhou, Assistant Professor, Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong

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