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Awards Committees
Albert Kingston Award (2 positions – 2 committee members)
Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy (3 positions – 3 committee members)
Brian Street Award (2 positions – 1 Chair and 1 committee member)
Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award (2 positions – 2 committee members)
Early Career Achievement Award (3 positions – 1 Chair position and 2 committee members)
Edward B. Fry Book Award (3 positions – 3 committee members)
J. Michael Parker Award (2 positions – 2 committee members)
Oscar S. Causey Award (4 positions- 4 committee members)
P. David Pearson Scholarly Influence Award (3 positions- 1 Chair position and 2 committee members)
Student Outstanding Research Award (5 positions – 1 Chair position and 4 committee members)
Innovative Community Groups
Doctoral Student ICG
Formative Experiments and Design-Based Research ICG
History ICG
International ICG
Multilingual/Transcultural ICG
Reading Clinic/Literacy Labs ICG
Standing Committees
Ethics Committee (3 positions – 2 committee members and 1 doctoral student)
Ethnicity, Race, & Multilingualism Committee (3 positions – 2 committee members and 1 doctoral student)
Field Council (7 positions – 6 committee members and 1 graduate student)
Gender and Sexualities Committee (3 positions – 2 committee members and 1 doctoral student)
Policy and Legislative Committee (3 positions – 2 committee members and 1 doctoral student)
Publications Committee (3 positions – 2 committee members and 1 doctoral student)
Research Committee (3 positions – 2 committee members and 1 doctoral student)
Technology Committee (3 positions – 2 committee members and 1 doctoral student)
Area Chairs
Area 1: Pre-service Teacher Education in Literacy (1 position)
Area 2: In-Service Teacher Education/Professional Development in Literacy (2 positions)
Area 3: Literacy Instruction and Literacy Learning (1 position)
Area 4: Literacy Assessment, Evaluation, and Public Policy (1 position)
Area 5: Early and Elementary Literacy Processes (2 positions)
Area 6: Adolescent, College and Adult Literacy Processes (0 positions)
Area 7: Social, Cultural, and Political Issues of Literacy Practices in and Out of School (1 position)
Area 8: Literacy Learning and Practice in Multilingual and Multicultural Settings (1 position)
Area 9: Text Analysis/Children’s, Young Adult, and Adult Literature (1 position)
Area 10: Literacy Technology and Media (2 positions)
Area 11: Research Theory, Methods, and Practice (0 positions)
Area 12: International Research on Literacy Teaching and Learning (1 position)
Area 13: Study Groups (1 position)
Area 14: Other Topics (1 position)