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Donna Alvermann is a Distinguished Research Professor. She is a professor at the University of Georgia in the department of Language and Literacy Education. Her research focus has been in the area of Literacy. Dr. Alvermann has authored over 100 articles, 15 books, and 70 chapters. She has also participated in over 30 grants.
Education Alvermann received her Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965. She began her teaching career in Texas after graduating. She continued her education, graduating with her Masters of Arts in Education from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968. She continued to teach in Texas until her move to New York. While in New York she completed her MLS at Syracuse University in Information Studies in 1980 as well as her PhD in Reading and Language Arts Education. She received her first appointment in 1980 as an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at University of Northern Iowa.
Career After her 12 years of experience as a classroom teacher in Texas and New York, she became an Assistant Principal in 1975 at Elmira City Schools in New York. Her first higher education appointment came in 1980 at University of Northern Iowa. She was also Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University (1982) and Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University (Summer of 1987). She became an Assistant/Associate Professor at the University of Georgia in 1982. She became the Director of the Cognitive Studies Group at the Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia (1991; Co-Director in 1997) as well as the Co-Director and Principal Investigator for the National Reading Research Center (1992-1997), Co-Director of the Contextual Research Group at the Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia (1998-2001). In 2001 she was a Lansdowne Lecturer a the University of Victoria in Canada. She has done numerous consultations. Some of these consultant activities were external evaluator of literacy education programs, not limited to University of Illinois-Chicago, University of New Mexico, and University of Arizona; consulted for organizations like RAND corporation in Washington,D.C., Governor’s Office of Research and Analysis in Georgia, Bilingual/ESL endorsement through Distance Education at Brigham Young, National Center on Education and the Economy in Washington,D.C., Boys and Girls Club of America in Atlanta, Carnagie Corporation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation/Jobs for the Future in Seattle, Washington, and numerous television stations including PBS flagstation in Washington,D.C., and WGBH in Boston.
Cognitive Studies Group
Contextual Research Group
National Reading Research Center
Awards and Honors
Recipient of Outstanding Reviewer Award for contributions to the American Educational Research Journal/Social and Institutional Analysis, 2007.
Awarded the American Reading Forum’s Brenda S. Townsend Service Award, 2006.
Awarded the International Reading Association’s William S. Gray Citation of Merit, 2006.
Awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Pedagogy - Long Island University, 2005.
Recipient of College Reading Association’s Laureate Award, 2004.
Nominated to National Institute for Literacy’s Commission on Reading Research, 2004.
Appointed to the National Adolescent Literacy Coalition, Washington, DC, 2004.
Appointed to the Intermediate and Adolescent Literacy National Advisory Group, Alliance for Excellent Education, Washington, DC, 2003
Appointed to the College of Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, 2003.
Appointed to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Planning Committee for 2009 Reading Assessment, Washington, DC, 2003.
Appointed to Adolescent Literacy Research Agenda Setting Panel, Carnegie Corporation of New York, September 2002.
Named Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia, July 2001.
Appointed to the RAND/U.S. Department of Education’s Reading Research Study Panel, 2000-2001.
Elected to the Reading Hall of Fame, 1999.
Elected to the Board of Directors, American Reading Forum, 1998-2001; Chair, Board of Directors, 2000.
Elected as a Director of the College Reading Association Board, 1997-2000.
Named Spencer Research Foundation Mentor, 1997-1998.
Appointed to National Panel of Advisors for the Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts, 1997.
Invited by President Charles Knapp, University of Georgia, to give President’s Lecture, 1996.
Recipient of Syracuse University's School of Education Honored Alumna Award, 1995.
Recipient of H.B. Herr Award for Contributions to Research in Reading Education, College Reading Association, 1993.
Appointed to the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards Committee for English Language Arts (Middle Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood), 1992-1997.
Elected to Fellow Status in the National Conference on Research in English (NCRE) 1990.
Elected Vice President of the National Reading Conference, 1989-90; President-Elect, 1990-91; and President, 1991-92.
Recipient of 1988 Journal of Educational Research Award for Meritorious Contribution to Educational Practice Through Research.
Named as the first International Reading Association's Representative to the Board of Examiners, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, for 3 year term, 1986-1989.
Elected as Director of the National Reading Conference Board, 1986-1988.
Finalist (1 of 10) for the International Reading Association’s Annual Outstatnding Dissertation Award, 1980.
Suggested Further Reading
Alvermann, D. E. (2006). Joe Millionaire meets Ulysses: Preservice teachers resist—and adapt—when exposed to media-literacy training. Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education, 3(4), 32. [Also available at http://www.ciconline.com/AboutCIC/Publications/threshold.htm#framing]
Alvermann, D. E. (2005). Literacy on the edge: How close are we to closing the literacy achievement gap? Voices in the Middle, 13(1), 8-14.
Alvermann, D. E. (2004). Adolescent aliteracy: Are schools causing it? Voices in Urban Education, 3 (Winter/Spring), 26-35. [Also available at http://www.annenberginstitute.org/VUE/index.html]
Alvermann, D. E., Huddleston, A., & Hagood, M. C. (2004). What could professional wrestling and school literacy practices possibly have in common? Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 47, 532-540.
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