Henry Giroux

Henry Armand Giroux (born September 19, 1943) is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic.

One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.

Henry Giroux was born on September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Alice (Waldron) and Armand Giroux.

Giroux completed a Master of Arts degree in history at Appalachian State University in 1968.

After teaching high-school social studies in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years, Giroux earned a Doctor of Arts degree in history at Carnegie Mellon University in 1977.

Giroux's first position as a professor was in education at Boston University, which he held for the next six years until he was controversially denied tenure by John Silber, the conservative president of the university.

Following that, he became an education professor and scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

While there he also served as the founding Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies.

For 1987–1988 he won the Visiting Distinguished Professor Award at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

In 1992, he began a 12-year position in the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, also serving as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies.

Between 1992 and 2004, he held the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University.

In 1995, he was awarded the Visiting Asa Knowles Chair Professorship by Northeastern University and he won a Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship for Research.

In 1998, Giroux was selected to the Laureate chapter of Kappa Delta Phi.

in 1998 and 1999, he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

For May–June 2000 he was the winner of a Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar Award.

In 2001, he was selected as a Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University.

In 2001 he won the James L. Kinneavy Award for the most outstanding article published in JAC in 2001, which was presented by the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in Chicago in March 2002.

In 2002 Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period.

A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years, Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Pennsylvania State University.

In 2002 Giroux was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge's "Key Guides Publication Series".

For 2002 he was named by Oxford University to deliver the Herbert Spencer Lecture.

For 2003 Giroux was selected as the Barstow Visiting Scholar at Saginaw Valley State University.

In 2004, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

In 2004 Giroux became the Global Television Network Chair in Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

In 2005, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Memorial University of Newfoundland.

The University in Chains was named by the American Educational Studies Association as the recipient of the AESA Critics' Book Choice Award for 2008.

He was named by the Toronto Star in 2012 as one of the top 12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think.

Education and the Crisis of Public Values: Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, & Public Education was awarded a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and has received the Annual O. L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award from the AATC (American Association for Teaching and Curriculum) and the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.

In July 2014, he was named to the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest.

He is the Director of the McMaster Centre for Research in the Public Interest.

He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he currently is a chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University.

He is married to Ourania Filippakou.

Giroux's writing has won many awards, and he has written for a range of public and scholarly sources.

He has written more than 70 books; published more than 500 papers; and published hundreds of chapters in others' books, articles in magazines, and more.

While at Miami University, Giroux was named as a Distinguished Scholar.

In 2015 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Chapman University in California.

He is a winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award granted by the AERA.

In 2015 he won two other major awards from Chapman University: the "Changing the World Award" and "The Paulo Freire Democratic Project Social Justice Award."

Also during 2015, Giroux was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Appalachian State University.

In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland.