Marcyliena Morgan Photo Courtesy Marcyliena Morgan Marcyliena Morgan is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her research has focused on youth, gender, language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction. She is the author of, Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (2002) and editor of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations (1994). 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, hip hop culture, and language education planning and policy. She is currently completing a book on hip hop culture entitled The Real Hiphop - Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in LA’s Underground. She is the founding director of the Hip Hop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. More Bios: Marinieves Alba | Ang 13 | Shaheen Ariefidien | Max Benitez | James Bernard | Toni Blackman | Triple Blak | Jeff Chang | Kevin Coval | Jonzi D | Mos Def | Martha Diaz | Jessica Green | James "Casper" Jankowiak | Talib Kweli | Bakari Kitwana | M1 | Boogie McClarin | Ivor Miller | Marcyliena Morgan | David Muhammad | Yunus Rafiq | Dr. Raquel Z. Rivera | Livio Sansone | Clyde Valentine | Cristina Verán | Zephyr