Charles Bazerman has always been interested in the practice and teaching of writing, understood in a socio-historic context. Using socially based theories of genre, activity system, interaction, intertextuality, and cognitive development, he investigates the history of scientific writing, other forms of writing used in advancing technological projects, and the relation of writing to the development of disciplines of knowledge. He hopes to contribute to our understanding of the importance of writing in all domains of modern life, and to contribute to the teaching and learning of writing at all levels of schooling, as writing is a major medium of participating in society and developing one's life with the contemporary complex literate world. He has contributed to a number of other editorial projects (such as the Handbook of Research on Writing and the series of Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition) and organizational initiatives (founder of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and its Writing Research Across the Borders Conference; founder of the Research Network Forum; organizer of the ILEES project). More than a distinguished scholar, Professor Arthur Applebee, who taught at UAlbany from 1987 to 2015, was deeply committed to the success of his students and to the entire School of Education. He shared his life's work with his wife and research partner, Dr. Judith Langer. The pair co-directed the National Research Center on Literature Teaching and Learning.