Tricia Rose is currently chancellor's professor of Africana Studies and the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. She also serves as associate dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives. In addition to her duties at Brown, Tricia sits on the boards of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Color of Change, and Black Girls Rock, Inc. She is an internationally respected scholar of post-civil rights era black US culture, popular music, social issues, gender, and sexuality. She has been awarded for her teaching and has received scholarly fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Association of University Women, among others. Tricia is most well known for her groundbreaking book on the emergence of hip hop culture. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America is considered foundational text for the study of hip hop, one that has defined what is now an entire field of study. Black Noise won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995, was voted among the top 25 books of 1995 by the Village Voice, and in 1999 was listed by Black Issues in Higher Education as one of its "Top Books of the Twentieth Century." In 2003 Tricia published a rare and powerful oral narrative history of black women's sexual life stories, called Longing To Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy. In 2008, she returned to hip hop to challenge the field she helped found, with: The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters. Her essays can be found in a range of scholarly journals and public venues. Tricia lectures, engages in conversation, and presents seminars and workshops to scholarly and general audiences on a wide range of issues relating to race in America, mass media, structural inequality, popular culture, gender and sexuality, and art and social justice. She has been featured on PBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and other national and local media outlets. Tricia earned a B.A. in sociology from Yale University and received her Ph.D. from Brown University in American Studies.