Dr. Marc Lamont Hill — one of the nation’s most visible and prolific Black intellectuals — is leaving Morehouse College to begin an endowed professorship at Temple University.
It is a homecoming of sorts for Hill, who completed his undergraduate studies at the Philadelphia institution and began his teaching career there after he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
At Temple, Hill will hold the Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities and Solutions in the Klein College of Media and Communication.
“It’s always good to be in a place where you’re wanted, where the work is valuable and where you see the possibility of making real change,” said Hill in an interview with Diverse. “Temple is home to me in so many ways.”
Hill said that his roots growing up near Temple in North Philadelphia runs deep. He attended high school near the campus. Initially, Hill spent his freshman year of college at Morehouse before transferring to Temple. In later years, Hill has been a vocal critic of police brutality and an activist in the city
“Temple is home to me in so many ways,” said Hill, who commuted each week to Atlanta for the past three years to Morehouse, where he held the Distinguished Professorship of African American Studies. Prior to teaching at Morehouse, Hill was a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College.
Trained as an anthropologist of education, Hill — a protégé of Dr. Michael Eric Dyson — is best known for his scholarship on hip-hop and his commentary on various news outlets including CNN.
