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Henry Giroux
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Henry Giroux (born September 18, 1943), is an

American and 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. In 2002
Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty
educational thinkers of the modern period.[1]
A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode
Island, for six years,[2] Giroux has held positions at
Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State
University. In 2005, Giroux began serving as the Global
TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at

Henry Giroux
Born

September 18, 1943

Providence, Rhode Island, United
States

Occupation Author, University Professor

Nationality

American, Canadian

Subject

Critical pedagogy, cultural studies,

youth studies, higher education,
cultural politics, social theory
Website

www.henryagiroux.com (http://www.henryagiroux.c
om)

McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[3][4] He has

published more than 60 books, 200 chapters, and 400 articles, and is published widely throughout education
and cultural studies literature.[5]

Contents
1 Life and career
2 Theory
3 Accomplishments
4 Publications
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links

Life and career

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Henry Giroux was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Alice (Waldron) and Armand Giroux.[6][7]
After teaching high-school social studies in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years, Giroux earned his
doctorate at Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. His first position as a professor was in education at Boston
University, which he held for the next six years. Following that, he became an education professor and
renowned 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.[8]
In 1992, he began a 12-year position in the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University, also
serving as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies.[9] In 2004 Giroux became
the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton,
Ontario.[10] In July 2014, he was named to the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public
Interest. He is currently the Director of the McMaster Centre for Research in the Public Interest. He
currently is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.
He currently lives there with his wife, Susan Searls Giroux.

Theory
Giroux has been an important contributor to a variety of academic fields, including critical pedagogy,
cultural studies, youth studies, and media studies, among others. His work draws from a number of
theoretical traditions extending from Marx to Paulo Freire to Zygmunt Bauman. He is also an advocate of
radical democracy, vigorously opposing the anti-democratic tendencies of neoliberalism, militarism,
imperialism, religious fundamentalism, and the ongoing attacks against the social state, the social wage,
youth, the poor, and public and higher education. Giroux's most recent work focuses on public pedagogy, a
term he coined to describe the nature of the spectacle and the new media, and the political and educational
force of global culture. He is also a regular columnist for Truthout and writes for a variety of academic
journals and public venues.

Accomplishments
Henry Giroux's writing has won many awards, and is written for a range of public and scholarly sources.
Giroux has written more than 60 books; published more than 400 papers; and hundreds of chapters in others'
books, articles in magazines, and more.
While at Miami University, Giroux was named as a Distinguished Scholar. He won the Visiting
Distinguished Professor Award for 19871988 at the University of MissouriKansas City. Between 1992
and 2004, he held the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University. He was awarded the Visiting
Asa Knowles Chair Professorship by Northeastern University in 1995. He won a Tokyo Metropolitan
University Fellowship for Research in August 1995.
In 1998, Giroux was selected to the Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi. He was awarded a Distinguished
Visiting Lectureship in art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and 1999. He was
the winner of a Getty Research Institute Visiting Scholar Award for MayJune 2000. He was selected as a
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University in 2001.

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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 Routledges "Key Guides Publication Series" (2002). 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 Chicago in March 2002. He was named by Oxford University to deliver
the Herbert Spencer Lecture for 2002.
Giroux was selected as the Barstow Visiting Scholar for 2003 at Saginaw Valley State University. In 2005,
he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Memorial University of Newfoundland.[11]
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. See Olivia Ward, 12 Canadians changing the way we think,
Toronto Star (January 27, 2012) 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.
He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Chapman University in California in
2015. He is a winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award granted by the AERA. In 2015 he won two other
major awards from Chapman University: theChanging the World Award" and The Paulo Freire
Democratic Project Social Justice Award. Also was awarded Distinguished Alumni Award from
Appalachian State University 2015.

Publications
In addition to being a co-Editor-in-chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies[12]
published by Taylor and Francis, Giroux has published the following books:
2016: America at War with Itself, forthcoming from City Lights Publishers
2016: America's Addiction to Terrorism, Monthly Review Press
2015: dangerous thinking in the age of the new authoritarianism, Routledge Publishers
2015: Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle, City Lights Publishers
2014: The Violence of Organized Forgetting, City Lights Publishers
2014: Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education, Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books / Toronto, ON:
Between the Lines Books
2013: Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues, Boulder, CO: Paradigm
Publishers (co-authored with Jeffrey DiLeo, Sophia McClennen, and Kenneth Saltman)
2013: America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth, New York: Monthly Review Press
2013: Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
2012: Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability, Boulder, CO: Paradigm
Publishers
2012: Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty, New York: Routledge
2011: Education and the Crisis of Public Values, New York: Peter Lang
2011: On Critical Pedagogy, New York: Continuum
2011: Education and the Public Sphere: Ideas of Radical Pedagogy, Cracow, Poland: Impuls (coauthored with Lech Witkowski)
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2011: Zombie Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism, New York: Peter Lang
2010: Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
2010: The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence, 2nd Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers (co-authored with Grace Pollock)
2010: Politics Beyond Hope: Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy, (2010) Boulder,
CO: Paradigm Publishers
2009: Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?, London: Palgrave Macmillan
2008: Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Beyond the Politics of Greed, Boulder, CO: Paradigm
Publishers
2007: The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex, Boulder,
CO: Paradigm Publishers
2006: Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
2006: The Giroux Reader, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers (edited by Christopher Robbins)
2006: America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Education, and Culture, London: Palgrave
Macmillan
2006: Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media,
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers
2005: Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics after Abu Ghraib, Winnipeg, MAN: Arbeiter Ring
Publishing / Oakland, CA: AK Press
2004: Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy, Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers
2004: Take Back Higher Education, London: Palgrave Macmillan (co-authored with Susan Searls
Giroux)
2004: The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear, London: Palgrave
Macmillan
2002: Public Spaces/Private Lives: Democracy Beyond 9/11, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers
2002: Breaking In to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers
2000: Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children, London: Palgrave Macmillan
2000: Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies, New York: Routledge
1999: The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers
1998: Channel Surfing: Racism, the Media, and the Destruction of Today's Youth, New York: St.
Martin's Press
1997: Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture, and Schooling, A Critical Reader, Boulder,
CO: Westview Press
1996: Counternarratives: Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces, New York:
Routledge (co-authored with Peter McLaren, Colin Lankshear, and Mike Cole)
1996: Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth, New York: Routledge
1994: Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture, New York: Routledge
1993: Living Dangerously: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference, New York: Peter Lang
1993: Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies New York: Routledge (coedited with Peter McLaren)
1992: Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education, New York: Routledge
1991: Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism, Minneapolis, MN: University of
Minnesota Press (co-authored with Stanley Aronowitz)
1988: Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning, Westport, CT: Bergin and
Garvey Press
1988: Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
1985: Education Under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Debate Over Schooling,
Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press(co-authored with Stanley Aronowitz)
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1983: The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education: Deception or Discovery?, Berkeley, CA:
McCutchan (co-authored with David E. Purpel)
1983: Theory and Resistance in Education, Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey Press (Introduction by
Paulo Freire)
1981: Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press

See also
Paulo Freire
Joe L. Kincheloe
Stanley Aronowitz
Youth empowerment

References
1. Palmer, J. (2002) Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Fifty Key Thinkers)
(Routledge Key Guides). Routledge Publishers. p. 208.
2. H. Giroux, "The Kids Aren't Alright: Youth Pedagogy and Cultural Studies" in Fugitive Cultures. [1] (http://www.he
nryagiroux.com/bio.html) Retrieved 21/09/08.
3. (2005) "McMaster attracts widely acclaimed U.S. scholar Henry Giroux" (http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/nms/advis
ories/2005/giroux.html) McMaster University. Retrieved 8/6/07. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/2007021502
4033/http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/nms/advisories/2005/giroux.html) February 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
4. (2005) ""McMaster University snags famous theory professor," (http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2004-2/issue8/ne-g
iroux.html) e. Peak News. Simon Frasier University. Retrieved 8/6/07.
5. Dr. Henry A. Giroux (http://www.henryagiroux.com/publications.htm) Personal website. Retrieved 5/30/16.
6. http://www.henryagiroux.com/
7. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Henry_Giroux.htm
8. (n.d.) Henry Giroux (http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html) Miami
University.
9. (n.d.) Henry A. Giroux Biography (http://www.criticalvoices.ie/speakers/display.asp?ArtistID=4) The Arts Council
Dublin.
10. (n.d.) Henry Giroux Author Bio (http://www.inthesetimes.com/about/author/3959/) In These Times magazine.
11. (2004) "McMaster U. Woos Education Scholar With Job for His Wife" (http://chronicle.com/subscribe/login?url=http
%3A%2F%2Fchronicle.com%2Fweekly%2Fv50%2Fi38%2F38a00801.htm), Chronicle of Higher Education. May
28, 2004
12. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1071-4413
&linktype=5) Taylor and Francis. Retrieved 7/21/07

Further reading
Doyle, C. & A. Singh (2006), Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux, New York: Peter Lang

External links
Henry Giroux's Website (http://www.henryagiroux.com)
Reading list (http://freechild.org/ReadingList/henry_giroux.ht
m) at The Freechild Project website
Biographical details (http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/conte
mporaryed/Henry_Giroux/henry_giroux.html)
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Henry Giroux's brief interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdVCnTTqXA) on YouTube

"Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Higher Education as a Public Good," Western University,
London Ontario (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98n-0eEs6Ck) on YouTube
"Elaborates on Deep State in parallel article with Jim Palombo's on same subject Ragazine.CC" (https:
//web.archive.org/web/20140407092504/http://ragazine.cc/2014/03/giroux-deep-state/)
Truthout Interviews Henry A. Giroux on Neoliberalism (http://truth-out.org/news/item/24367-truthout
-interviews-henry-a-giroux-on-neoliberalism)
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