#  Remembering Marcyliena Morgan 

 



##  Remembering Marcyliena Morgan 

 

 

       ![Marcyliena Morgan in front of the Hiphop Archive](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2025-09/9735e5d8-44c3-79e2-3ba3-e111ef65ae51.jpeg?itok=PoK8VTzC) 

 

 



 

 



 

We mourn the passing of Marcyliena H. Morgan, the founding director of the Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute. After a long illness, she is at peace.

Prior to her passing, Hopi Hoekstra, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, enthusiastically approved the renaming of the Hip Hop Archive as the Marcyliena H. Morgan Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, ensuring that her historical legacy will live on at Harvard for all time.

The Ernest E. Monrad Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard, Professor Morgan created the world’s first, largest, and best archive to record the ongoing cultural phenomenon of Hip Hop music, art, and culture. The Hutchins Center is committed to carrying on the study of this most vital and global of art forms in her name.

In so many ways Marcy Morgan was the heart and soul of the Hutchins Center and AAAS communities here at Harvard, and she will be deeply missed. Our thoughts at this time are with her beloved husband, Professor Lawrence Bobo, her family, and all who loved her.



 

 

 

##  External Links 

 



  [### Today, 'Marcyliena Morgan, Hip-Hop Archive Founder, Dies at 75' (video)

 ](https://www.today.com/video/marcyliena-morgan-hip-hop-archive-founder-dies-at-75-251638853559) November 10, 2025 

 

   ![Marcyliena Morgan](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/FLW.012.jpg?itok=-OuM6KQ1) 

 



 

 

   [### New York Times, 'Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75'

 ](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/arts/music/marcyliena-morgan-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.w2Q_.G-fcFwz83EfL&smid=url-share) November 01, 2025 

 

   ![Marcyliena H. Morgan at Harvard University in 2003](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/31morgan-01-gzfv-superJumbo.jpg?itok=ixmIyjKk) 

 



 

 

   [### Wall Street Journal, 'Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75'

 ](https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/marcyliena-morgan-harvard-hip-hop-archive-640e10c0?st=z9auJg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink) October 31, 2025 

 

   ![Professor Morgan at Harvard in 2015](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/mmm.jpg?itok=RrnuwX5_) 

 



 

 

   [### Harvard Crimson, 'AAAS Professor Marcyliena Morgan Remembered for Dedication to Truth, Hip-Hop Scholarship'

 ](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/17/remembering-morgan-hiphop/) October 17, 2025 

 

   ![Barker Center, a brick building behind trees and concrete benches](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/231842_1380422.jpg.1500x999_q95_crop-smart_upscale.jpg?itok=RfT7P3fL) 

 



 

 

   [### University of Toronto dedicates 'Hip-Hop Diaspora 2.0' conference to Professor Marcyliena H. Morgan

 ](https://harthouse.ca/events/hip-hop-diaspora-2) October 15, 2025 

 

   ![Professor Marcyliene H. Morgan](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/mm.jpg?itok=BbfMOF6J) 

 



 

 

   [### Black Enterprise, 'Dr. Marcyliena H. Morgan, Founder Of The Hip Hop Archive And Research Institute, Dies At 75'

 ](https://www.blackenterprise.com/dr-marcyliena-h-morgan-founder-hip-hop-archive-dies/amp/) October 15, 2025 

 

   ![Marcyliena Morgan in front of the Hiphop Archive](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/9735e5d8-44c3-79e2-3ba3-e111ef65ae51.jpeg?itok=unHX6FFc) 

 



 

 

   [### Boston Globe, 'Marcyliena Morgan, Harvard’s ‘scholar queen of hip-hop,’ dies at 75'

 ](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/13/metro/harvard-hip-hop-archives-founding-director-marcyliena-morgan-passes-away-at-75/) October 13, 2025 

 

   ![Marcyliena H. Morgan in front of a bookshelf](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/mmbooks.jpg?itok=rWtsyj7G) 

 



 

 

   [### Harvard Gazette, 'She pioneered study of hip-hop as high art'

 ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/she-pioneered-study-of-hip-hop-as-high-art/) October 07, 2025 

 

   ![Professor Morgan in the Hip Hop Archive](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/1980_HipHop_001.jpg?itok=sMP7N7ZW) 

 



 

 

   [### Legacy.com, 'Marcyliena MORGAN Obituary'

 ](https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/marcyliena-morgan-obituary?id=59644071) October 02, 2025 

 

   ![Marcyliena Morgan at the podium in Sanders Theatre](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hutchins/files/3989ee.jpg?h=63878e14&itok=2I0yKMQy) 

 



 

 

   [### The EDU Ledger, 'Dr. Marcyliena H. Morgan, Visionary Scholar Who Brought Hip-Hop to the Academy, Dies'

 ](https://www.theeduledger.com/faculty-staff/article/15768188/dr-marcyliena-h-morgan-visionary-scholar-who-brought-hiphop-to-the-academy-dies) September 30, 2025 

 

   ![Professor Morgan in front of the orange doors to the Hip Hop Archive](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/hhamm.jpg?itok=kJbHIXKY) 

 



 

 

   [### Harvard Gazette, 'How hip-hop got to Harvard'

 ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/01/how-hip-hop-got-to-harvard/) January 12, 2024 

 

   ![Professors Bobo and Morgan](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/121423_Morgan_0121-1-scaled.jpg?itok=nuo7lvCj) 

 



 

 

   [### Harvard Magazine, 'Ask a Harvard Professor with Marcyliena Morgan'

 ](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/10/marcyliena-morgan) October 21, 2019 

 

   ![Professor Morgan](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/morgan_article_graphics2.jpg?itok=FGfzUiS-)