Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Travis Gosa holds a faculty appointment in the graduate field of education, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality. Since 2008, 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. An interdisciplinary social scientist, he teaches twentieth and twenty-first century African American culture, education, and music. Gosa is editor of Remixing Change: Hip Hop & Obama (Oxford University Press, 2014; co-edited with Erik Nielson). His most recent academic 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. In addition, he has contributed scholarly essays to many critical anthologies including The Cambridge Companion To Hip Hop (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Race still Matters: African American Lived Experiences in the Twenty-First Century (SUNY University Press, 2014), and Social Media: Impact & Usage (Lexington Books, 2012). He has written for various media outlets, including Ebony, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Black Commentator, FoxNews, and Hip Hop Republican. His book-in-progress examines the relationship between hip hop culture and black student achievement.