Alexander Hyres

Assistant Professor, History of US Education, University of Utah

Alexander Hyres is an Assistant Professor in the History of US Education at the University of Utah. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. He was awarded an Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah’s College of Education in 2022 and from the University of Utah in 2024.

He is the author of Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville’s Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School (University of Georgia Press, 2026) and the co-editor of Youth in the Movements: High School Student Activism in Twentieth-Century America (Rutgers University Press, 2026). His writing and research have appeared in the Journal of African American History, Global Black Thought, the Journal of the History of Youth and Childhood, Teachers College Record, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

He is a former middle and high school social studies and English teacher. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in secondary social studies education from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in social foundations of education from the University of Virginia.