Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the youngest members of the growing body of “Hip-Hop Intellectuals” in the country. His work, which covers topics such as hip-hop culture, politics, sexuality, and education, and religion, has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, books, and anthologies. Dr. Hill has lectured widely and provides regular commentary for numerous radio, television and print media outlets such as The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Essence Magazine, Radio America, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. His column, The Barbershop Notebooks, appears bi-monthly for PopMatters Magazine and is often syndicated through various websites such as SeeingBlack.com and the Alternet. His award-winning daily blog is updated on his website, www.MarcLamontHill.com.

In 2005, Ebony Magazine named him one of America's top 30 Black leaders under 30 years old.

Dr. Hill is currently completing several book projects, including You Ain't Heard It From Me: Snitching, Rumors and the Politics of Other People's Business in Hip-Hop America; Vocab: Words and Phrases of the Hip-Hop Nation; New Dilemmas of the Black Intellectual (edited with Gregory Seaton); and Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility (edited with Lalitha Vasudevan).

In addition to his public intellectual work, Dr. Hill is an assistant professor of Urban Education at Temple University. Trained as an anthropologist of education, he holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hill’s research focuses on the intersections between youth, popular culture, and pedagogy. He is particularly interested in locating various sites of possibility for identity work, resistance, and knowledge production within and outside of formal schooling contexts. Particular areas of inquiry include hip-hop culture, urban (street) fiction, and African American bookstores. He recently completed the Hip-Hop Lit project, which connects in-school and out-of-school literacy practices through hip-hop centered curricular interventions.