Alexander Hyres

Alexander Hyres is an assistant professor in the history of US education at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the African American experience, teacher and student activism, the American high school, and curriculum and pedagogy. His first project, "In the Shadow of Jefferson's University: Black High School Teachers and Students in the Struggle for Educational Equity, 1926 - 1991," draws upon materials generated through the TIM project to examine how, and in what ways, Black teachers and students struggled within and beyond the classroom for educational equity in Charlottesville, Virginia. His writing has appeared in the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Negro Education, History of Education Quarterly, and the Washington Post.