Marcyliena Morgan

Marcyliena Morgan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCLA and Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies 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 gender and women’s speech, language ideology, 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 hip hop culture and language and the construction of social identity entitled The Fifth Element: Building Culture, Knowledge and Respect in the Hiphop Underground. She is the founding director of the Hip Hop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.