Ruth Murambadoro
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Ruth Murambadoro | |
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 Ruth Murambadoro in 2025 | |
| Born | |
| Citizenship | Zimbabwean |
| Education | PhD in Political Science |
| Alma mater | University of Pretoria |
| Occupation | African Feminist Scholar |
| Employer | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Notable work | Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (2020) |
Ruth Ratidzai Murambadoro[1] (also known as Ruth Murambadoro) is a Zimbabwean political scientist and African feminist scholar, whose research explores transitional justice, gender justice, and peacebuilding in Africa.[2][3][4]
Murambadoro is currently an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada.[5]
Murambadoro earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pretoria in 2018, focusing on tradition-based approaches to transitional justice in Zimbabwe.[6][7] She also holds an MA in Political Science (2014), a BA Honours in International Relations, and a Bachelor of Political Sciences from the same institution.[6]
Academic career
Murambadoro joined Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2024 as an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies.[5] She previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University (2021–2024), affiliated with the Harriet Tubman Institute and the Centre for Feminist Research.[2] From 2019 to 2021, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand.[8][9]
She has also been affiliated with Philipps University of Marburg in Germany as a guest researcher at the Centre for Conflict Research.[10]
She has conducted ethnographic studies in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ghana, where she examined how community-based and tradition-based justice mechanisms operate and how women resist structural violence.[7]
She collaborated with Ugandan scholar and editorial cartoonist Jimmy Spire Ssentongo on African and transnational feminisms through a panel discussion and creative exhibition events hosted by York University’s Centre for Feminist Research in October 2025.[11]
Contributions
Murambadoro received the ASA Presidential Fellowship in 2015 and served as an Emerging Scholar representative on the African Studies Association Board of Directors in 2016.[12]
Murambadoro's book, Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe (2020), has been recognized for exploring how justice is understood and applied in African contexts, emphasizing local and community-based approaches to post-conflict reconciliation.[13]
Selected publications
- Murambadoro, Ruth; Mandizvidza, Wilson, eds. (2022). The PhD Experience in African Higher Education. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781793645371.
- Murambadoro, Ruth (2020). Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030480912.
- “Beyond restorative justice: Understanding justice from an African perspective,” Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation, 9(1), 2020, pp. 43–69. [14]
- “‘We cannot reconcile until the past has been acknowledged’: Perspectives on Gukurahundi from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe,” African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 15(1), 2015, pp. 33–57.[15]
