Anthony Kwame Harrison

• Race
• Popular Music Studies
• Qualitative Research Methodologies
• Racialized Social Spaces
  
• Hip Hop Historiography
• Higher Education Pedagogy

• Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, Syracuse University, 2004
• M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, Syracuse University, 1999
• B.A. in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992

• Vice President, Board of Directors (US), Race in the Marketplace Network
• Editorial Board, Journal of Popular Music Studies
• Editorial Board, IASPM Journal
• Advisory Board, Global Hip Hop Studies
  
• Editorial Board, DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society

• Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2022. 
• American Marketing Association’s AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing for Race in the Marketplace: Crossing Critical Boundaries.
• E. Gordon Erickson (Outstanding Graduate Faculty) Award, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, 2012, 2016
• Alumni Teaching Award, Academy of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech, 2015
• Carroll B. Shannon Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2014
  
• Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2014
• Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, 2011
• Edward S. Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, Virginia Tech, 201

Books Authored

Ethnography: Understanding Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification (Temple University Press, 2009)

Book Edited

Race in the Marketplace: Crossing Critical Boundaries, eds. Guillaume D. Johnson, Kevin D. Thomas, Anthony Kwame Harrison, and Sonya Grier (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019).

Select Journal Articles

“A Five Star Flop: The Collision of Music Industry Machinations, Genre Maintenance, and Black Britishness in 1980s Pop.” Transposition: Musique et Sciences Sociales 10 (2022): https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/6881

“Black College-Radio on Predominantly White Campuses: A ‘Hip-Hop Era’ Student-Authored Inclusion Initiative.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 9 (2016): 135-154. 

“‘What Happens in the Cabin . . .’: An Arts-Based Autoethnography of Underground Hip Hop Song-Making.” Journal of the Society for American Music 8 (2014): 1-27.

“Reconciling Geppetto: Collaboration, (Re-)Creation and Deception in the Practice of Hip Hop Music Ethnography.” Collaborative Anthropologies 6 (2013): 38-72. 

“Black Skiing, Everyday Racism, and the Racial Spatiality of Whiteness.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues 37 (2013): 315-339.

Book Chapters

“‘Here, Listen to My CD-R’: Music Transactions and Infrastructures in Underground Hip-Hop Touring.” Pp. 65-76 in The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, edited by Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, and Jolynna Sinanan (Routledge, 2022).

“Hip-Hop's Place in Campus Inclusion and Social Justice Advocacy.” Pp. 194-205 in For the Culture: Hip Hop and the Fight for Social Justice. Edited by Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk (University of Michigan Press, 2022). 

“Ethnography.” Pp. 329-358 in The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd edition. Edited by Patricia Leavy (Oxford University Press, 2020).

“Preserving Underground Hip-Hop Tapes in Ethnographic Context.” Pp. 103-120 in Music Preservation and Archiving Today. Edited by Norie Guthrie and Scott Carlson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). 

“‘Change That Wouldn’t Fill a Homeless Man’s Cup Up’: Filipino-American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama.” Pp. 133-154 in The Hip Hop & Obama Reader. Edited by Travis L. Gosa and Erik Nielson (Oxford University Press, 2015).

“Hip Hop and Race.” Pp. 191-199 in The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music. Edited by John Shepard and Kyle Devine (Routledge, 2015). 

“Hip-Hop and Racial Identification: An (Auto)Ethnographic Perspective.” Pp. 152-167 in The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop. Edited by Justin Williams (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Other Creative Works

“Mad Squirrel Keeping it Rural: Reflecting on Twenty Years of Hip-hop Environmental Awareness and Advocacy” (with Ahad Pace). Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment 13 (2022): 177-188.

“Using Black Lives as if They Don’t Matter: The Famous Four and Other Serious Stories of Capitalism and White Supremacy.” California Western Law Review 57 (2021): 291-301.

“The Favorite White Boy List.” Shuddhashar (শুদ্ধস্বর) 23 (2021): https://shuddhashar.com/the-favorite-white-boy-list-anthony-kwame-harrison/

“Brown Girl in the Lens.” Co-authored with Zuleka Randell Woods. ISRF Bulletin XXIII (2021): 27-32.

“The Time of Our Lives.” General Anthropology (Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association) 27 (2020): 1-5.

“White Reign” (an issue dedicated to the career achievements of James A. “Billboard” Jackson (1878-1960). Dysfunction #6 (2019): 1-12

“‘Please Listen to My CD-R’: Underground Hip-Hop Music from the Fans.” IASPM-US Mixtape Series (2015): http://iaspm-us.net/please-listen-to-my-cd-r-underground-hip-hop-music-from-the-fans-by-anthony-kwame-harrison/

“Schwarze Skifahrer? Über den ganz alltäglichen Rassismus im Sport.” Kulturaustausch: Zeischrift für International Perspektiven 1 (2014): 39. [translated by Claudia Kotte]

“Resurrect the Cassette: Revaluing Bay Area Underground Hip Hop Tapes.” IASPM-US Mixtape Series (2013): http://iaspm-us.net/resurrect-the-cassette-revaluing-bay-area-underground-hip-hop-tapes-by-anthony-kwame-harrison/

• “In Search of ‘Billboard’ Jackson: Investigating a Pioneer of Integration and the Legacy of his Opposition to Racist Market Forces,” Université Paris-Dauphine, France, June 2019.
• “The Place of Hip Hop on College Campuses,” University of Dayton, Ohio, November 2017.
• “Being On Campus: Articulations of Togetherness and Difference,” Diversity Workshop, Quest University, Squamish, British Columbia, February 2017.
• “Black Lives Matter and the Anthropology of Racism,” Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, February 2017.
  
• “Campus Diversity and the Structural Inequalities of Underrepresentation: A Lecture and Discussion on Race,” Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, November 2014.
• “The Production of Blackness: Exploring the Racialized Politics of Hip Hop Recording Studio Practice,” Queens College, Queens, New York, November 2013.
• “Re-Situating ‘Billboard’ Jackson: The Untold Story of African-American Music, Mobility, and Freedom,” The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, February 2012.

Undergraduate-Level Courses

• Foundations of Hip Hop
• Introduction to Social Anthropology
• Black Aesthetics
• Introductory Sociology
• Introduction to Africana Studies
• Sociology of Popular Music

Graduate-Level Courses

• Social Issues in Qualitative Methodology
• History of Social Thought 

PhD Committees Chaired

• William Trevor Jamerson, Tourist Harlem: Sidewalks, Cyberspace, and the In/Visibility of Race, 2019
• Corey Javon Miles, Niggaz Wit Aesthetic: A Sociological Conceptualization of Diasporic Hip-Hop Identities in the Era of Mass Incarceration, 2019
• Lawrence Johnson, The Permanence of Race: Governor Deval Patrick and the Deracialization Concept, 2012
• Meredith Ann Katz, The Politics of Purchasing: Ethical Consumerism, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in the United States, 2011

Master’s Degree Committees Chaired

• Joy Thompson, The Return: Understanding why Black Women Choose to “Go Natural,” 2018
• William Trevor Jamerson (Sociology). Race, Discourse, and the Cultural Economy of Neoliberal New York: An Analysis of Online Reviews of Harlem Heritage Tours, 2014
• Dominique Christabel Bunai, If This is a ‘Real’ Housewife, Who are all These Women Around Me?: An Examination of the Real Housewives of Atlanta and the Persistence of Historically Stereotypical Images of Black Women in Popular Reality Television (co-chair with Dr. Ellington Graves), 2014
• Melissa Faye Burgess, ‘You Can’t Put People in One Category Without Any Shades of Gray’: A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity (co-chair with Dr. Paula Marie Seniors), 2011
• Corey Meghan MacDonald, ‘We Listen to Women’: Exploring Midwifery in Virginia from Certified Nurse-midwives and Certified Professional Midwives, 2007
• Meredith Ann Katz, "The Beats Have No Color Lines:" An Exploration of White Consumption of Rap Music (co-chair with Dr. John Ryan), 2004

• VT Presidential Global Scholars, Riva San Vitale, Switzerland, 2021
• Visiting Professor, MOST (Markets, Organizations, Society and Technologies) Research Team, Université Paris-Dauphine, France, 2019
• Study Abroad, Ghana, 2017