He is the past president of the Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC). In 2006 he received the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS) Dissertation Award for research entitled Othered Among Others: A Critical Narrative of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Learners Literacy and Identity In Early Childhood Education (ECE). He has co-authored Early childhood curricula and the de-pathologizing of childhood (University of Toronto Press) with Dr. Rachel Heydon, (University of Western Ontario) and co-edited Early childhood curricula: Reconceptualist perspectives (Detselig Press) with Dr. Pam Whitty, (University of New Brunswick). He can be reached at luigiiannacci@trentu.ca