Dr. James Peterson

James Peterson is an Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University. He is a visiting lecturer and preceptor in African American Studies at Princeton University and was the founding Media Coordinator for the Harvard University Hiphop Archive. Dr. Peterson has assisted Dr. Cornel West and delivered the "Hip Hop Studies" lectures at Princeton University (2004). He has also assisted and guest-lectured in the (Marvin Gaye and Tupac) courses with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson at the University of Pennsylvania (2004-2006). He has written numerous scholarly articles on Hip Hop Culture, African American Literature, Culture, and Linguistics as well as Urban Studies. He is currently working on a book that explores in detail the lyrics and life of Tupac Shakur (forthcoming, Praeger/Greenwood Press). Peterson has conducted interviews with Gil Scott Heron, Dr. Manny Marable, Sistah Souljah, Snoop Dogg, DJ Jazzy Jeff and generally applies his journalistic skills and his ethnographic training toward innovative academic inquiry. Dr. Peterson has been featured on BET and Bet.com (The Jeff Johnson Chronicles) and he has published in Callaloo, Black Arts Quarterly, XXL, Technitions, and Lexani magazine. He has also been featured and/or quoted in Vibe Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly, Southern Voices and The Wall Street Journal.