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

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

After teaching high-school social studies in Barrington, Rhode Island, for six years, Giroux earned a Doctor of Arts degree in history at Carnegie Mellon University in 1977.

Giroux's first position as an Assistant Professor was in education at Boston University, which he held for the next six years until he was denied tenure.

He 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.

[21] The University in Chains was named by the American Educational Studies Association as the recipient of the AESA Critics' Book Choice Award for 2008.

In 2021 he received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Center for Latin American Studies in Education Inclusive (CELEI).

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