Hannah Tavares Wins Book Award From the American Educational Studies Association

Hannah M. Tavares, an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii, received the 2017 Critic’s Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association.

Dr. Tavares was honored for her book Pedagogies of the Image: Photo-Archives, Cultural Histories and Postfoundational Inquiry (Springer, 2016). The book considers the potential of photographs for orienting in a critical direction the scope, questions and interests of the disciplinary conventions of the field of educational inquiry.

Dr. Tavares holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in educational foundations from the University of Hawaii. She earned a Ph.D. in educational policy studies and curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.