Tricia Rose (born October 18, 1962) is an American sociologist and author who pioneered scholarship on hip hop.

Born in New York City, Rose lived in Harlem until 1970 when, at age seven, her family moved from their tenement building to Co-op City, a new and large complex of cooperative apartments in the northeast Bronx.

Earning a PhD degree in American studies, partly under George Lipsitz,[3] from Brown University, Rose became the first person in the United States to write a doctoral dissertation on hip hop.

In 2002, she moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in July 2003 became chair of its American Studies department.

Rose's first book, Black Noise, emerging from her doctoral dissertation on hip hop, sparked academic recognition of this subculture's legacy.