Joyce Hope Scott

Joyce Hope Scott is a Clinical Professor of African American Studies at Boston University and national and international scholar/lecturer in African American and Diaspora studies. She is a former scholar of the Oxford Round Table and former Fulbright Senior Lecturer & Researcher to the republics of Burkina Faso and Benin (West Africa). Prof. Hope Scott is co-coordinator and investigator of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for African Reparations (INOSAAR).

She is the author of numerous publications including:
National and International Perspectives on Movements for Reparations. Journal of African American History. Special Issue. Vol. 103 Number ½. Special Issue.
Travel as Subversive in 19th Century Black Women’s Narratives.  Advances in Literary Study, 2017, 5, 105-121.
New Griottes of the African Sahel: Intersectionalities and Women’s Narrative Authority in Sanou Bernadette Dao’s La Dernière èpouse & Aïcha Fofona’s Mariage on Copie. Advances in Literary Study.

She was Faculty Fellow with the Core Curriculum in AY2019-20. More information can be found at her department profile.