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Marcyliena Morgan morgan@hiphoparchive.org
Executive Director & Founder of the Hiphop Archive

Marcyliena Morgan is Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her research has focused on language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction. She is the author of Language, Discourse and Power in African-American Culture and Editor of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations. Her other publications include articles and chapters on African-American culture and language, urban youth language, language ideology, women’s speech, discourse and interaction among Caribbean women in London and Jamaica, urban youth language and interaction, and language education planning and policy. She is currently completing a book on Hiphop culture and language and the construction of social identity entitled The Real Hiphop: The Battle for Knowledge, Power and Respect in the Underground.

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