Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux
Born	Henry Armand Giroux (1943-09-18) September 18, 1943 (age 80) Providence, Rhode Island, US
Nationality	American Canadian
Spouses	Jeanne Brady[11] Susan Searls Giroux[11] Ourania Filippakou
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Maine Appalachian State University Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis	Themes in Modern European History (1977)
Influences	Theodor W. Adorno[1] Stanley Aronowitz[2] Pierre Bourdieu[3] John Dewey[4] Michel Foucault[4] Paulo Freire[4] Antonio Gramsci[5] Stuart Hall[6] Max Horkheimer[1] Richard Johnson[7] Herbert Marcuse[1][8] Karl Marx[4] William Pinar[4]
Academic work
Discipline	Communication studies cultural studies pedagogy
School or tradition	Critical pedagogy postmodernism[9]
Institutions	Boston University Miami University Pennsylvania State University McMaster University
Influenced	Joe L. Kincheloe[10] Peter McLaren Michael Adrian Peters
Website	henryagiroux.com

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. In 2002, Keith Morrison wrote about Giroux as among the top fifty influential figures in 20th-century educational discourse.^[12]

A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years,^[13] Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Pennsylvania State University. In 2004, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in Communication at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.