Research & Writing

The architecture of influence.

Selected work. The full list lives in the CV.

Cover of From Congo to GONGO by Hope McCoy, Peter Lang 2024
The Book · Peter Lang, 2024

From Congo to GONGO

Higher Education, Critical Geopolitics, and the New Red Scare

A history of diplomacy between Russia and Africa, told through the universities, scholarships, and cultural centers where influence actually happens.

Winner, Peter Lang Emerging Scholars in Black Studies Competition

Selected Publications

Books & chapters

2015

Higher Education Studies of Post-Soviet Space

Where post-Soviet universities sit between global and national systems.

With V. Starikov · St. Petersburg State University Press · Published in Russian

In Progress

What she is writing now

Ongoing

Vocational Education and South-South Collaboration: Global Citizenship in Caribbean Culinary Schools

Research funded by the U.S. State Department.

Working paper

Music, Enslavement and Liberation in the Black Imagination

Where the scholarship and the music meet. More on the music →

Fieldwork

Where the work has taken her

Hope K. McCoy in conversation with a student in Zanzibar, Tanzania
In conversation, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Hope K. McCoy at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, British Virgin Islands
Scholar-in-Residence, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, British Virgin Islands
RussiaFulbright · 2015–16
British Virgin IslandsFulbright · 2025
Zanzibar, Tanzania2025–present