In 2002 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" . In 2001 he won the James L. Kinneavy Award for the most outstanding article published in JAC in 2001, which was presented by the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication held in Chicago in March 2002. For 2002 he was named by Oxford University to deliver the Herbert Spencer Lecture.