Sharim Hannegan-Martinez
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610 E. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1259
Sharim Hannegan-Martinez is an assistant professor of critical studies in education at the University of Michigan. Informed by her experiences growing up on the San Diego-Tijuana frontera and her time as a high school English teacher in East Oakland, her scholarly agenda seeks to expand justice-centered pedagogies to consider the role of healing and overall wellbeing as a part of liberatory practice and commitment. To that end, she draws on critical race and Chicana feminist theories and methodologies to examine the relationship between trauma, loving pedagogies, grief, healing, and wellness, particularly as it relates to Students and Teachers of Color. Her work has been published in several journals including Teachers College Record, Reading Research Quarterly, Urban Education, and Urban Review.
Sharim is a founding member of the People’s Education Movement, Bay Area, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where her dissertation was recognized by the Ford Foundation’s predoctoral and dissertation year fellowships. This scholarship was awarded ‘dissertation of the year’ by American Educational Research Associations’ Division G: Social Contexts in Education in 2022. She is a 2022 Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color fellow with the National Council for Teachers of English and a 2024 National Academies of Education Spencer Postdoctoral fellow.
Intellectual Clusters
Selected Publications
Literacies of Love: A Portrait of Trauma and Healing in an English Classroom
Hannegan-Martinez, S. (2026). Journal of Literacy Research.
Gyles, S. & Hannegan-Martinez, S. (2026). Trauma-Informed Praxis as a Building Block of Justice-Centered Science. Teachers College Record.
Hannegan‐Martinez, S. (2025). Reading Research Quarterly, 60(4).
Hannegan-Martinez, S., Mendoza Aviña, S., Delgado Bernal, D., & Solorzano, D. G. (2024). Urban Education 59(7), 2066–2095.
Grief as an Invitation to Heal: Extending Trauma-Informed Pedagogies, Research and Praxis.
Hannegan-Martinez, S. & Cariaga, S. (2023). Introduction to Special Issue, Journal of Trauma Studies in Education.
If We Aren’t Grieving, We Aren’t Healing: A Testimonio on Grief as a Trauma-Informed Practice.
Hannegan-Martinez, S. (2023). Journal of Trauma Studies in Education.
Hannegan-Martinez, S. (2023). International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 36(9), 1702–1713.