Cheryl J. Craig, Ph.D., is a Professor, Chair of Teaching &Teacher Education, and the Houston Endowment Endowed Chair of Urban Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture at Texas A&M University (TAMU). She is also the Founding Director of the Collaborative for Innovations in Teacher Education (CITE). Her empirical research is situated at the intersection where teaching & teacher education/curriculum meet. Using narrative inquiry, she conducts research with preservice and in-service teachers on campuses typically serving high poverty children of color at risk of school failure. Her research centers on the influence of reform agendas on preservice and in-service teachers’ knowing, doing and being, and the unintended consequences that reforms and policies may have on student learning. Craig’s research program is internationally renowned because (1) it rigorously examines teaching/teacher education; (2) has a strong conceptual base; (3) involves both curriculum and teaching; and (4) uses an innovative methodology. Cheryl Craig has authored 11 research handbook chapters and contributed to more than 20 Web of Science journals. Her first book, Narrative Inquiries of School Reform, was published in 2003 (Information Age Publishing) and her second single-authored book, Curriculum Making, Reciprocal Learning and the Best-Loved Self appeared in 2020. Two other books have been co-authored: one on STEM teacher education and another on teachers’ knowledge communities. Craig is Co-Editor-in- Chief of Journal of Teacher Education, Executive Editor of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (SSCI journal), and an Associate Editor of Frontiers of Teacher Education (SSCI journal). She is also on the review boards of Reflective Practice (SSCI journal), the Sense Book Research in Education Series and the Emerald Book Series Advances in Research on Teaching (SSCI publication) in addition to two Brill series of books. She has co-edited 14 volumes in book series published by Roman & Littlefield, Routledge, Emerald Publishing and Oxford University Press. She has delivered keynote addresses internationally (i.e., Chile, India, Israel, Türkiye, South Africa) and has been an Honorary Visiting Professor at Northeast Normal University (Changchun). She also has been a Visiting Professor at the National Institute for Education in Singapore and at Massey University in New Zealand. Cheryl Craig founded the Portfolio Group, arguably the oldest teacher research group in the world. In 2002, she started the Faculty Academy, a consortium of teacher educators from five regional universities and currently three affiliate universities in Louisiana, Nevada and Ohio. In 2010, she received the University of Houston’s Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award and the College of Education’s Distinguished Career Award. Cheryl Craig is a Past-President of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (2005), a Past Chair of the Narrative Research Special Interest Group (SIG) (2009), a Past Chair of the Portfolios in Teaching and Teacher Education SIG (2002-2005) and a Past Chair of the Lives of Teachers SIG (2018-2020) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She currently serves as the Chair of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) (2019-2025). She received a Literati Network Award of Excellence (UK) in 2011 for a chapter she authored and Outstanding AERA Article Awards in 2009, 2014 and 2019. In 2011, she was named an AERA Fellow, the highest recognition possible in her field. In 2012, she was bestowed her field’s second distinguished honor: AERA’s Division B (Curriculum) Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, Craig received ISATT’s Outstanding Article award, which was determined by reviewers from six continents. Craig’s other conferred honors include the President’s Award from the American Association of Teacher Educators (2014), AERA’s prestigious Michael Huberman Award (2015), and a 2016 Wall of Fame Award, the highest honor granted by her Canadian undergraduate university. In 2018, she earned a Mentorship Award (SEHD) and in 2019, an Outstanding New Employee Award (TAMU). In 2019, she received ISATT’s highly respected ST2AR Award for Exemplary Contributions (Research, Teaching, Service) in the International Field of Teaching and Teacher Education, the most distinguished international prize she could receive. In 2021, she made AERA history by receiving Division K’s two top honors: the Exemplary Research Award and the Legacy Award. In 2021, she was also made Acting Dean of Invisible College (AERA). These awards and activities, along with her two AERA Outstanding Lifetime Career Awards (Division B-Curriculum; Division K-Teaching) and her KDP Teacher of the Year Award, make her one of the most honored education professors nationally and internationally. In 2023, she received the Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award by TAMU in addition to the SEHD Senior Scholar Research Excellence Award in 2022.