2026 Henry A. Giroux: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	107	59	48	2	2	736	76041

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
2019 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Henry A. Giroux is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Social Sciences, focusing primarily on Education and related subfields. Their work intersects Education, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Communication, and Information Systems.

Giroux's research addresses several main topics including:

Critical and Liberation Pedagogy
Global Educational Policies and Reforms
Political theory and Gramsci
Educational theories and practices
Social and Political Issues
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Recent publications by Giroux include:

"The Covid-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism," 2020, published in Praxis Educativa
"Rethinking neoliberal fascism, racist violence, and the plague of inequality," 2021, published in Communication Teacher
"Higher Education and the Politics of Disruption," 2020, published in Chowanna
"Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in Authoritarian Times," 2020, published in Chowanna

Frequent co-authors include:

Gustavo de Oliveira Figueiredo
Ourania Filippakou
Michael W. Apple
Gert Biesta
David Bright

Giroux has published numerous works across various publication venues. Among the most common are:

Praxis Educativa
The Review of Education Pedagogy & Cultural Studies
Chowanna
Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies
Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies

Their book publications are associated primarily with Bloomsbury Academic eBooks and Bloomsbury Publishing plc, including titles such as:

On Critical Pedagogy (2020)
Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2020)
Pedagogy of Resistance (2022)
Insurrections (2023)
Theory and Resistance in Education (2024)
Teachers as Intellectuals (2024)
Fascism on Trial (2023)
Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality (2020, Lehigh University Press eBooks)

In recognition of their contributions, Giroux was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2019.

Best Publications

Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education

Henry A. Giroux

6816
Citations
Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition

Henry A. Giroux

6044
Citations
Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

Henry A. Giroux;Paulo Freire;Peter McLaren

4995
Citations
Pedagogy And The Politics Of Hope: Theory, Culture, And Schooling: A Critical Reader

Henry A. Giroux

2816
Citations
Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: A Critical Analysis

Henry A. Giroux

2416
Citations
Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism

Stanley Aronowitz;Henry A. Giroux

2337
Citations
On Critical Pedagogy

Henry A. Giroux

2029
Citations
Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age

Henry A. Giroux

2008
Citations
Theory and resistance in education : towards a pedagogy for the opposition

Henry A. Giroux;Paulo Freire;Stanley Aronowitz

1620
Citations
Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education: The University as a Democratic Public Sphere

Henry A. Giroux

1580
Citations
The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence

Henry A. Giroux;Grace Pollock

1473
Citations
La naturaleza política de la educación: ; cultura, poder y liberación

Paulo Freire;Henry A. Giroux

1454
Citations
Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture

Henry A. Giroux

1365
Citations
Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education

Henry A. Giroux

1284
Citations
Teacher Education and the Politics of Engagement: The Case for Democratic Schooling

Henry A. Giroux;Peter McLaren

1179
Citations
Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

Henry A. Giroux;Peter L. McLaren

985
Citations
Between Borders : Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies

Henry A. Giroux;Peter McLaren

924
Citations
War on terror

Henry A Giroux

804
Citations
Living Dangerously: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference

Henry A. Giroux

683
Citations
The Terror of Neoliberalism

Henry A. Giroux

657
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter McLaren Chapman University

Paulo Freire Federal University of Pernambuco

Michael W. Apple University of Wisconsin–Madison

Thomas S. Popkewitz University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jennifer Gore University of Newcastle Australia

William F. Pinar University of British Columbia

Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Manuel Castells University of Southern California

Michael A. Peters University of Waikato

External Links

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