Marcyliena Morgan

Biography

Marcyliena Hazel Morgan (May 8, 1950 – September 28, 2025) was an American linguistic anthropologist known for legitimizing the study of hiphop as an academic subject. She was the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the Executive Director of Harvard's Hiphop Archive, which she founded in 2002. It was the world's first hiphop archive.

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