Marcyliena Morgan, who founded and built Harvard University’s Hip‑Hop Archive and helped legitimize hip‑hop studies in academe, died at 75. Her work collecting recordings, scholarly essays and ephemera established a resource used by researchers and instructors to study urban culture, musicology and African American studies. Colleagues credit Morgan with elevating rap as an object of serious scholarship and with creating curricular pathways that integrated popular culture into humanities and media studies. Her archive continues to support research, courses and public programming that bridge community cultural production and university scholarship.