Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at The University of Georgia, emeritus; and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. His research and teaching take a cultural-historical approach to issues of literacy education, literacy teacher education, and related social concerns. From 1996-2003 he coedited, with Michael W. Smith, Research in the Teaching of English; and from 2012-2020 he served as the faculty advisor to the student-edited Journal of Language and Literacy Education at UGA. Recent awards include 2018 Distinguished Scholar recognition by the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, 2018 International Federation for the Teaching of English Award, 2020 Horace Mann League Outstanding Public Educator Award, 2022 American Educational Research Association Division K Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award,  2023 AERA Cultural Historical Research SIG Lifetime Contribution to Cultural-Historical Research Award, and election to the National Academy of Education in 2023. He was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2024. Since retiring in 2020, he has continued reading, writing, and presenting, and in 2023 became a Master Gardener through the UGA Extension Office in Athens.