Biography:Ruth Murambadoro
Ruth Murambadoro | |
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 Ruth Murambadoro in 2025 | |
| Born | Zimbabwe |
| 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]
Early Life and education
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, ed (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]
See also
- Peacebuilding
- Transitional justice
- Cynthia Chigwenya
- Jimmy Spire Ssentongo
References
- ↑ Murambadoro, Ruth Ratidzai. "Ruth Ratidzai Murambadoro" (in en). York University. https://blackscientists.ca/members/ruth-ratidzai-murambadoro/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ruth Murambadoro". https://www.yorku.ca/research/tubman/profile/ruth-murambadoro/.
- ↑ "Ruth Murambadoro, Author at Kujenga Amani". https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/author/ruth-murambadoro/.
- ↑ Philipps-Universität Marburg (2022). "We are pleased to welcome Ruth Murambadoro as a guest researcher!". Philipps-Universität Marburg. https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/konfliktforschung/aktuelles/nachrichten/2022/we-are-pleased-to-welcome-ruth-murambadoro-as-a-guest-researcher.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Faculty". Memorial University of Newfoundland. 2024. https://www.mun.ca/gender-studies/people/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "On the Blue Couch with Dr Ruth Murambadoro". https://odilemackett.com/on-the-blue-couch-with-dr-ruth-murambadoro/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: A Stepping Stone for Emerging Scholars in Africa". 20 October 2017. https://items.ssrc.org/from-our-fellows/next-generation-social-sciences-in-africa-a-stepping-stone-for-emerging-scholars-in-africa-2/.
- ↑ Murambadoro, Ruth Ratidzai (2024). "ORCID profile". https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4347-2433.
- ↑ Govender, Kemantha (1 October 2019). "Meet our new staff at WSG". https://www.wits.ac.za/news/sources/wsg-news/2019/meet-our-new-staff-at-wsg.html.
- ↑ Philipps-Universität Marburg (2022). "We are pleased to welcome Ruth Murambadoro as a guest researcher!". Philipps-Universität Marburg. https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/konfliktforschung/aktuelles/nachrichten/2022/we-are-pleased-to-welcome-ruth-murambadoro-as-a-guest-researcher.
- ↑ "Mukadzi, Musha, Rugare: Woman, Home, Freedom". Memorial University of Newfoundland. https://gazette.mun.ca/events/mukadzi-musha-rugare-woman-home-freedom/.
- ↑ "African Studies Association (ASA) Board Member". University of Pretoria. 31 May 2016. https://www.up.ac.za/political-sciences/news/post_2289690-african-studies-association-asa-board-member.
- ↑ Govender, Kemantha (29 July 2020). "Justice in Africa: what it means to Africans?". University of the Witwatersrand. https://www.wsg.ac.za/news/justice-africa-what-it-means-africans.
- ↑ Wielenga, Cori; Batley, Mike; Murambadoro, Ruth (2020). "Beyond restorative justice: Understanding justice from an African perspective". Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation 9 (1): 43–69. doi:10.10520/EJC-1d589e7a61. https://hdl.handle.net/2263/78844.
- ↑ Murambadoro, Ruth (2015). "From Reconciliation to Justice: The Politics of Memory and the Gukurahundi Massacres in Zimbabwe". African Journal on Conflict Resolution 15 (1): 33–57. http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajcr/article/viewFile/121690/111153. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
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