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University of Georgia education alumnus Jonathan Eakle has been named to the Faculty Editorial Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press—the oldest university press in the United States.

Eakle (PhD’05), an associate professor and director of the reading education program in the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education, is the first person in the school to be appointed to the board.

Eakle, who received his doctorate in reading education from UGA, teaches cultural studies in literacy and supervises clinical practicum at Johns Hopkins University. He serves on several university and national literacy education committees. He has guided curriculum of numerous literacy education courses, and he designed and implemented Johns Hopkins’ literacy education master’s program and three of its literacy education certificates.

In 2007, he co-edited the fourth volume of a 50-year-old series published by the National Council of Teachers of English about secondary school literacy, which was nominated for NRC’s Edward B. Fry Book Award.

His recent work appears in Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Reading Teacher, and Reading Online, among other venues.

Eakle’s research interests include: children and adolescent literacies, museum education, teacher education and leadership, international issues in education. His research addresses conceptual and practical uses of literacies in classrooms and out-of-school settings. Eakle’s recent Mexico museum research is under journal submission, and he is writing a book about education and culture.

For four years, Eakle was co-editor of American Reading Forum Yearbook, and he has served as reviewer for IRA’s research committee, the U.S. Government, Teachers College Press, and Research in the Teaching of English, among others. He is a member of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Editorial Review Board. For three years he compiled international research reports for Reading Research Quarterly, worked on the RRQ’s online supplements of journal articles and assisted in launching RRQ Online, the first electronic journal of its kind in international literacy education research. Further, he is an editor of the curriculum and instruction volume for an upcoming SAGE education book series.

The Johns Hopkins University Press publishes 60 scholarly journals and nearly 200 new books each year. It is also home to Project MUSE—a ground-breaking collaboration with JHU’s Sheridan Libraries that provides online access to more than 380 scholarly journals for millions of students, scholars and other Internet readers.