Marcyliena Morgan, founder of Harvard’s Hip‑Hop Archive, has died at 75. Morgan built a significant university collection of albums, scholarship and ephemera that helped establish hip‑hop as a legitimate field of academic study and curriculum at Harvard and beyond. Her archive and scholarship elevated rap and hip‑hop from popular culture to subjects of sustained scholarly inquiry, influencing course offerings, research agendas and archival practice in music and African American studies. Colleagues cite her work as foundational in normalizing non‑canonical collections in research libraries and curricula. Universities that house cultural archives face renewed attention to curatorial standards and curricular integration as they preserve contemporary cultural histories for scholarship and teaching.