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Smagorinsky

University of Georgia Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinsky has been recognized for his work reviewing academic journal articles from one of the world’s leading publishers of journals and electronic media.

Smagorinsky, a faculty member in the College of Education’s department of language and literacy education, received the 2011 SAGE Citation for Excellence in Reviewing for his work on behalf of the journal Written Communication.

Smagorinsky has been recognized often during his prolific career for his work not only in reviewing, but also for his research, publications and teaching.

He received the Outstanding Reviewer Award three times from the American Education Research Association (2006-08) for his work in the Educational Researcher and was named an AERA Fellow in 2010.

He received the Edward B. Fry Book Award (2009) from the National Reading Conference for his Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research, the College of Education’s Russell B. Yeany Jr. Research Award (2009), the Association of Teacher Educators Distinguished Research Award (2008), and the Janet Emig Award (2003) for the article published in English Education that most contributes to the field’s thinking about English teacher education and most informs the field’s research.

He also received the Edwin M. Hopkins Award (2000) for best article by a non-K-12 author in English Journal, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English and the Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award (1999) for Programmatic Research from the AERA which recognizes the scholar who has conducted the most distinguished program of cumulative educational research in any field of educational inquiry within the first decade after receiving a doctoral degree.

He was named a UGA Service Learning Fellow and received the UGA Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Award in Humanities and Fine and Applied Arts, both in 2007.

Smagorinsky’s research focuses on the transition from pre-service teacher education programs to the workforce, a study of pre-service teachers’ concept development as mediated by service learning, and studies of students’ learning in disciplinary contexts with an emphasis on high school English classes.

Smagorinsky joined the UGA faculty in 1998 after eight years at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his Ph.D. in English education from the University of Chicago in 1989 and taught high school English in the Chicago area from 1976-1990.

SAGE is the world’s fifth largest journals publisher. Their portfolio includes more than 630 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine, and more than 280 are published on behalf of 230 learned societies and institutions.

Smagorinsky received the award on Feb. 20 at the 4th International Conference on Writing Research Across Borders in Washington, D.C.