Dr. Catherine Lammert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Texas Tech University. Since 2021, she has served as Anchor Faculty in undergraduate literacy teacher education, and since 2023 she has served as the Curator of the Sitton- Burkhart Reading Room. In 2020 she was honored to receive the Dissertation Award for Literacy Excellence from the Research in Reading & Literacy SIG (#11) of the American Educational Research Association for her study titled: Inquiry, Advocacy, and Practice-Based Research: Transformative Possibilities in Literacy Preservice Teacher Education. Currently, she is the Chair-Elect of the AERA SIG Action Research (#2) and Co-Chair of the National Council for Teachers of English ELATE Commission on Climate Justice, Inquiry, and Action. Broadly, her research focuses on the uses of field-based experiences, practice-based research, and interdisciplinary approaches in preservice teacher education. In her scholarship, she leverages these tools to cultivate preservice teachers' efficacy, adaptiveness, and knowledge of practices for teaching reading and writing in the context of a rapidly and unpredictably changing planet. She also enjoys birdwatching, thrifting, palak paneer, and Netflix. 

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