Alex Hyres
I'm an assistant professor in the history of US education at the U of Utah
Books
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School
Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, V...
Youth in the Movements: High School Student Activism in Twentieth-Century America
Youth in the Movements: High School Student Activism in Twentieth-Century America
Youth in the Movements documents the history of the rise of American high school and youth activism in the United States since the Second World War. Spaces within high schools and the adults at them provided support or inspiration – both negative and posi
Interviews
Ruby J. Gainer, Black Educators, and the Long-Brown Era - AAIHS
Ruby J. Gainer, Black Educators, and the Long-Brown Era - AAIHS
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a managing editor of Global Black Thought, interviews Professors Amato Nocera and Alexander Hyres about their new article, "Rebel with a Cause: Ruby J. Gainer
Teachers in the Movement Oral History Podcast
Teachers in the Movement Oral History Podcast
Public Scholarship
Washington Post's Made by History, Part II
Washington Post's Made by History, Part II
Racism helped shaped the state's schools and culture.
Op-Ed on School Voucher Proposal in Utah
Op-Ed on School Voucher Proposal in Utah
Alexander Hyres writes that school vouchers would subsidize schooling for Utah’s rich and religious
PBS Insight Panel on Book Banning in Utah
PBS Insight Panel on Book Banning in Utah
How the fight over books and curriculum leaves educators in a difficult position.
Washington Post's Made by History, Part I
Washington Post's Made by History, Part I
Articles and Book Chapters
"Rebel with a Cause": Ruby J. Gainer, Black Educators, and the Long-Brown Era
"Rebel with a Cause": Ruby J. Gainer, Black Educators, and the Long-Brown Era
"Barbara Johns and Beyond: Black Male Youth Activists, School Desegregation, and the Black Freedom Struggle in Virginia, 1951–1970"
"Barbara Johns and Beyond: Black Male Youth Activists, School Desegregation, and the Black Freedom Struggle in Virginia, 1951–1970"
Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era on JSTOR
Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era on JSTOR
A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civilrights movementSouthern Black educators were central contributors and activistsin the civil rights movem...
"Reimagining the High School Experience: The Uses and Limitations of Student-Generated Documents for Understanding the Past and Present"
"Reimagining the High School Experience: The Uses and Limitations of Student-Generated Documents for Understanding the Past and Present"
“The Whole Mess Is American History”: Protest, Pedagogy, and Black Studies at a Desegregated High School in the South, 1967–1974 | The Journal of African American History: Vol 107, No 1
“The Whole Mess Is American History”: Protest, Pedagogy, and Black Studies at a Desegregated High School in the South, 1967–1974 | The Journal of African American History: Vol 107, No 1
Grants and Awards
NAEd/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
NAEd/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Early Career Teaching Award 2024 - University of Utah
Early Career Teaching Award 2024 - University of Utah
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