MIT World Speakers

S. Craig Watkins

S. Craig Watkins focuses on race, media, youth culture, and hip-hop studies. His latest book, Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement (Beacon Press 2005), takes readers inside the world of hip-hop. Watkins is also the author of Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema(The University of Chicago Press 1998).

In 2006 Watkins was selected to join the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning a collection of scholars, visionaries, thought leaders, and practitioners from across the world to explore the intersection of digital media, everyday life, and learning.

S. Craig Watkins received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.