EDUCATION::

Ph.D., 2005, University of Pennsylvania
B.S., 2000, Temple University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE::

2005 – Present Assistant Professor of Urban Education & American Studies – Temple University (Affiliated Faculty Member in Anthropology

LANGUAGES::

Spanish (Fluent)
Egyptian and Modern Standard Arabic (Functional)

RESEARCH INTERESTS::

My primary research interests are: youth culture studies, neo-liberalism, domestic militarization, ghetto surveillance, out-of-school literacies, hip-hop studies, anthropology of education, collective memory, and qualitative methodology.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Anthropological Association
American Educational Research Association
American Studies Association
Cultural Studies Association

AWARDS

Finalist – Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
Highest Distinction - Dissertation
Highest Distinction – Dissertation Proposal
William E. Arnold Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in a Doctoral Program (University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education)
Ebony Magazine – America’s Black Leaders Under 30 Award (2005)

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Hill, M.L. (manuscript under review) Beats Rhymes and Classrom Life: Hip-hop, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity.
Hill, M. L. (in preparation). You Ain't Heard It From Me: The Politics of Other People's Business in Hip-Hop's Public Sphere.

Edited Books

Hill, M.L. & Vasudevan, L. (eds.) (in press) Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility. New York: Peter Lang Press.
Hill, M.L. (ed.). Anthropology of Education (in perparation)
Hill, M.L. & Seaton, G. (eds.) (in preparation). New Dilemmas of the Black Intellectual.

Refereed Articles

Hill, M.L. (2006) Representin(g): Negotiating multiple roles and identities in the field and behind the desk. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(5), 926-949.
Hill, M.L. (2006). Who’s representin’ for us?: Post-9/11 reflections from Hip-Hop Lit. English Journal. 96(5), 25-29.
Hill, M.L. (in press). Wounded healers: Forming a ‘real’ community through storytelling in Hip-Hop Lit. Teachers College Record.
Hill, M.L., Perez, B., & D. Irby (in press). Street Fiction: What is it and what does it mean for English teachers?. English Journal.
Leonard, J. & Hill, M.L. (in press). Using culturally relevant texts to facilitate classroom science discourse. Journal of Black Studies.
Hill, M.L. (revised and resubmitted). Bringing back sweet (and not so sweet) memories: The cultural politics of memory, hip-hop, and youth identities. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Hill, M.L. (under review). (Homo) thuggin’ It: Hip-hop, masculinity, and the pedagogy of queerness. Journal of Communication Critical/Cultural Studies.
Hill, M.L., Irby, D., & Gould, S. (under review). Hip-hop based education: A Review of the Literature. Review of Educational Research.
Hill, M.L. (in preparation) Reflections on the field: Educating black youth in neoliberal times. Anthropology & Education Quarterly

Book Chapters

Hill, M.L. (2008). Toward a pedagogy of the popular: Bourdieu, hip-hop, and out-of-school literacies. In A. Luke & J. Albright (Eds.), Bourdieu and Literacy Education (pp. 136-161). New York: Routledge.
Hill, M.L. (2008). Critical pedagogy comes at halftime: Nas as Black public intellectual. In M.E. Dyson & S. Daulatzai (Eds.), Born to use mics. New York: Basic Civitas.
Hill, M.L. (2008). Organizational leadership and intercultural competence in the face of globalization. In M. Moodian (ed.), Handbook of Contemporary leadership & intercultural competence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Vasudevan, L. & Hill, M.L. (2008). Moving beyond dichotomies of media engagement in education. In M.L. Hill & L. Vasudevan (Eds.), Media, Learning, and Sites of Possibility. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Hill, M.L. (accepted). Trapped in the Pocket? Donovan McNabb, Terrell Owens and the politics of racial representation. In D. Leonard (Ed.) Thugs and Dollar Signs: New Racism and the Imagined Black Athlete.

Book Reviews

Hill, M.L. & Gould, S. (in press). Black Hands in the Biscuits Not in the Classroom: Unveiling Hope in a Struggle for Brown's Promise by Sherick A. Hughes. Anthropology & Education Quarterly.
Hill, M.L. (2004). African American literacies. Journal of Literacy Research. 36(1), 110-115.

See www.MarcLamontHill.com for representative sampling of popular articles.