Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar Professorship in Critical Pedagogy. In 2002, he 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. In 2007, he was named by the Toronto Star as one of the “12 Canadians Changing the Way We Think.” He is a frequent contributor to online sources such as Truthout, Tikkun, CounterPunch, Truthdig, and Salon, and his research has appeared in numerous academic journals. In all, he has published over 400 scholarly articles. His most recent books include Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket, 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights, 2014), Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), America’s Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017), The Public in Peril (Routledge, 2018), and The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019). Giroux is also a member of the Board of Directors at Truthout. His website is www.henryagiroux.com.