14 Facts About Henry Giroux

Henry Armand Giroux was born on September 19,1943 and is an American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic.

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

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

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

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

Henry Giroux is the Director of the McMaster Centre for Research in the Public Interest and a regular contributor to several independent media outlets including the LA Progressive.

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

In 2001 Giroux 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.

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

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

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

For many years Henry Giroux was co-Editor-in-chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, published by Taylor and Francis.

Henry Giroux was the first to use the phrase critical pedagogy, according to Curry Malott, and helped inaugurate the "critical turn in education".

Henry Giroux's work has been critiqued on numerous fronts, from feminists like Patti Lather and Elizabeth Ellsworth.