Princeton University will offer a new course in Spring 2026 that places women at the center of hip-hop’s history and intellectual tradition. The latest announcement continues the expansion of hip-hop studies within elite academic institutions.
The course, Miss-Education: The Women of Hip-Hop, is structured as a hybrid seminar, research lab, and performance workshop. Its premise challenges long-standing narratives that have treated women’s contributions to hip-hop as peripheral. Instead, the course frames those contributions as foundational to the culture’s development, aesthetics, and political thought.
Chesney Snow, a hip-hop educator, will teach the class; Dr. Francesca D’Amico-Cuthbert, a scholar of culture and gender; and Eternia, a Canadian recording artist known for her work on gender equity in hip-hop. Together, the instructors bring academic, archival, and industry experience to a curriculum that blends scholarship with creative practice.
Princeton University Announces Miss-Education: The Women of Hip-Hop Course Coming Spring 2026
According to the course description, students will examine hip-hop through a gendered and interdisciplinary lens, tracing its evolution through the experiences of women artists, organizers, and intellectuals. The syllabus spans early pioneers such as MC Sha Rock and Roxanne Shanté, as well as figures who reshaped the genre’s mainstream and political visibility, including Queen Latifah, Sister Souljah, Lauryn Hill, Bahamadia, Lil’ Kim, and Cardi B.
Beyond biographical study, the course emphasizes methods of preservation. Students will be trained in hip-hop archiving, oral history, performance-based research, and podcasting. There will be an emphasis on how cultural memory is constructed and sustained. Guest speakers are expected to appear throughout the semester, offering firsthand perspectives from within the culture.
The course will be held at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, reinforcing the university’s emphasis on public-facing scholarship. Can expect special guests to visit the course.
Open to students across disciplines with no prerequisites, Miss-Education reflects Princeton’s broader investment in interdisciplinary arts education. This course marks an inspirational time for women’s hip-hop.
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