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Alex Corbitt, Literacy Department, was recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English with the 2024 Promising Researcher Award. Corbitt’s research explores how youths and adults represent their identities, communities and civic lives through processes of play and coauthorship. Oriented by participatory and ethnographic methods, he engages in long-term partnerships with schools and organizations to understand their learning ecologies, reflexively analyze their pedagogical practices and codesign justice-oriented programming. His scholarship has been published in several academic journals, including Linguistics and Education, Journal of Literacy Research, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, English Journal, Curriculum Inquiry, English in Education, Digital Culture & Education, Voices from the Middle, and Mind, Culture, and Activity.