Kelebogile Zvobgo
Affiliated Scholar
Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Government, faculty affiliate at the Global Research Institute, founder and director of the International Justice Lab
William & Mary
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Kelebogile Zvobgo is the Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Government, a faculty affiliate at the Global Research Institute, and founder and director of the International Justice Lab.
Her research broadly engages questions in human rights, transitional justice, and international law and courts, and is published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Human Rights. Her first book, Governing Truth: NGOs and the Politics of Transitional Justice, is under contract with Oxford University Press.
She writes regularly for policy and mainstream outlets like the Brookings Institution, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post.
Selected publications
- Book · 2026 Governing Truth: NGOs and the Politics of Transitional Justice Oxford University Press Argues that transitional justice is a transnational regime led by civil society, not by governments.
- Article · 2025 The Afterlives of Transitional Justice International Journal of Transitional Justice Revisits two founding assumptions of transitional justice in an age of rising authoritarianism.
- Article · 2025 Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts The Journal of Politics
- Article · 2024 Producing Truth: Public Memory Projects in Post-Violence Societies Human Rights Quarterly A dataset of more than 150 memorial projects proposed by truth commissions in 28 countries, 1970–2018.
- Article · 2024 Co-Opting Truth: Explaining Quasi-Judicial Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes Human Rights Quarterly Why authoritarian regimes create truth commissions and other quasi-judicial bodies, and how they use them.
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