- ISSN: 2632-6825
- E-ISSN: 2632-6833
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oa The Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellowship at Harvard University: A decade of building knowledge, 2014–24
- Source: Global Hip Hop Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2, Jul 2025, p. 217 - 225
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- 16 Mar 2026
Abstract
The Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellowship at Harvard University was announced in 2013 and the inaugural fellows arrived at the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute (HARI) the next year.1 Since then, 27 Nas fellows have passed though the programme, conducting research across a broad array of topics. This article features interviews with several of the former Nas fellows as they reflect on the importance of the fellowship for hip hop studies and on their general experiences at Harvard. Dr Henry Louis Gates Jr, the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, where HARI is housed, also offers his perspectives on the fellowship and its impact through its first decade.
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