Giroux was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s "Key Guides Publication Series" (2002).
Giroux je imenovan jednim od najboljih pedeset obrazovnih mislilaca modernog doba u Pedeset modernih mislioca o obrazovanju: Od Piaget do danas kao dio Routledge "Ključne smjernice serija izdavanja" (2002).