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Alex Hyres
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Assistant Professor in the History of US Education at the U of Utah | AERA Division F Secretary: https://shorturl.at/NvyTG | Preorder my forthcoming book, Protest and Pedagogy: https://shorturl.at/8bDqN | Opinions my own.
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My book, Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School, will be published soon. To learn more about it, see the attached flyer. To pre-order the book, go here: www.ugapress.org/978082037530... #histed #edhist #history @ugapress.bsky.social
Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools. ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I received the proofs today for my book. I'm excited to review them and then take a break from thinking about this project for a while #histed #edhist
Proofs for cover page of Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School by Alexander D. Hyres
May 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Gov. Cox:
A man, with a hot dog costume, stands in a suit shop filled with people after driving his hot dog car into the shop. He claims not to know who drove the car into the shop, even though it is obvious, based on the costume, that he's the one.
April 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Excited to share the cover for my forthcoming book with @ugapress.bsky.social #histed #edhist #history #Blackhistory #southernhistory #protest #pedagogy @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
The book cover for Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School (University of Georgia Press, Forthcoming 2025) by Alexander D. Hyres. A yearbook page reads, "Black Studies...at last," alongside a series of pictures including Anthony Sherman, a Black male teacher, and students in the Black Studies class.
February 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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We have extended the deadline for the AERA Division F: History and Historiography Mentoring Seminar. The new deadline is December 13, 2024. The session is open to graduate students and early career scholars. See attached for more info. #edhist #histed #edusky @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
This is a revised Call for Applications to participate in the Division F: History and Historiography Mentoring Seminar in Denver, Colorado.
December 6, 2024 at 5:21 PM