Joyce Hope Scott

Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Joyce Hope Scott is clinical professor of African American studies at Boston University, a former-Scholar of the Oxford Round Table and former Fulbright Senior Scholar to Burkina Faso and the Republic of Bénin, West Africa. She is cofounder/codirector of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) & president of the Boston Pan African Forum (BPAF). In February 2020, she developed and organized “Restorative Justice and Societal Repair: A Symposium on Global Racism and Reparations,” BU; in September 2018, principal organizer of the International Conference “Return to The Source: The Future of Reparations and Reparatory Justice for Enslavement Of African People,” Porto-Novo, Republic of Bénin. She is author of numerous publications including: Journal of African American History, National and International Perspectives on Movements for Reparations. Vol. 103 Number ½. Special Issue (Guest Ed. with Nicola Frith); “Contentious Discourses: Signifying on the Law in African American Writing,” Journalism & Mass Communication Vol.5 No. 4, (April 2015).

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural Studies
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social Inequality or Stratification

Methodology

• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Ethnographic Methods
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods