Henry 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. He also holds a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. 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 Truthout, CounterPunch, Truthdig, and other online journals. He has published over 400 scholarly articles.  His most recent books include:  Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future (Paradigm 2013), America’s Educational Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013), Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket 2014), The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights 2014) and Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge 2015).  Giroux is also a member of Truthout's Board of Directors.

Toronto, Canada