Travis L. Gosa is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. He holds faculty appointments in Education and American Studies, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality. Since 2009, he has served on the advisory board of Cornell's Hip Hop Collection, the largest archive on early hip hop culture in the United States. He teaches courses on hip hop culture, educational inequality, and African American families. His most recent work has been published with peer-reviewed journals Poetics, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Teacher's College Record, Popular Music and Society, and the Journal of American Culture. He also writes regularly for popular outlets, including The Washington Post, The Root, FoxNews, Ebony, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is currently finishing his manuscript School of Hard Knocks: Hip Hop and the Fight for Equal Education, for University of Illinois Press.