Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her)
@kellyzvobgo.bsky.social
Political scientist • Author of Governing Truth bit.ly/governing-truth • Committed to human rights, transitional justice, and international law
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Hey y’all, it’s my birthday! 🎉
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
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I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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It was a pleasure hosting @jilldougherty.bsky.social at William & Mary @wm.edu to discuss her new book tracing her journey from teenage Russophile, to exchange student in Leningrad, to frontrow witness to political & econ upheaval under Gorbachev, Yeltsin & Putin during her time at CNN @cnn.com.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It was a pleasure hosting @jilldougherty.bsky.social at William & Mary @wm.edu to discuss her new book tracing her journey from teenage Russophile, to exchange student in Leningrad, to frontrow witness to political & econ upheaval under Gorbachev, Yeltsin & Putin during her time at CNN @cnn.com.
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
What’s the story behind my book’s cover art?
A thread🧵
A thread🧵
Hey y’all, it’s my birthday! 🎉
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What’s the story behind my book’s cover art?
A thread🧵
A thread🧵
Hey y’all, it’s my birthday! 🎉
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hey y’all, it’s my birthday! 🎉
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
If care about #transitionaljustice, #humanrights and #globalgovernance, or you just want to celebrate my 33 revolutions around the sun, you can pre-order my first book, GOVERNING TRUTH, out with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social in Feb.
See global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Did Zohran win president yet?
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Did Zohran win president yet?
Excited that The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights is now out!
Francesca Parente and I wrote chapter six, on how cross-institutional collaborations can advance research, teaching, mentorship, and service in human rights.
More info and purchase options here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the...
Francesca Parente and I wrote chapter six, on how cross-institutional collaborations can advance research, teaching, mentorship, and service in human rights.
More info and purchase options here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the...
The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights
‘This book reveals the often-invisible labour of weaving networks that anchor human rights in lived reality. It shows how scholars, practitioners, and activists collectively confront urgent problems, ...
www.e-elgar.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Excited that The Role of Networks in Advancing Human Rights is now out!
Francesca Parente and I wrote chapter six, on how cross-institutional collaborations can advance research, teaching, mentorship, and service in human rights.
More info and purchase options here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the...
Francesca Parente and I wrote chapter six, on how cross-institutional collaborations can advance research, teaching, mentorship, and service in human rights.
More info and purchase options here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the...
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I mean if you’re the guy who DOGE-ed the U.S. Institute of Peace, you don’t get the Prize.
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I mean if you’re the guy who DOGE-ed the U.S. Institute of Peace, you don’t get the Prize.
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Preregistering:
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Preregistering:
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.
Excited to receive page proofs for GOVERNING TRUTH today! It’ll be out early next year, with the paperback priced at $29.95 – run, don’t walk, to get your copy!
You can pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
You can pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Excited to receive page proofs for GOVERNING TRUTH today! It’ll be out early next year, with the paperback priced at $29.95 – run, don’t walk, to get your copy!
You can pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
You can pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
William & Mary’s government department is hiring in comparative politics (Europe focus). I’m on the search committee and attending APSA next week. Feel free to reach out to set up an informational meeting.
Apply here: williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/job...
Apply here: williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/job...
Assistant Professor of Government (The Politics of Europe)
Job Requisition: JR100780 Assistant Professor of Government (The Politics of Europe) (Open) Job Posting Title: Assistant Professor of Government (The Politics of Europe) Job Family: Faculty - Tenure T...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
William & Mary’s government department is hiring in comparative politics (Europe focus). I’m on the search committee and attending APSA next week. Feel free to reach out to set up an informational meeting.
Apply here: williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/job...
Apply here: williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/job...
Simple Plan is on their 25th anniversary tour and they’re in Richmond tonight! Excited to see them and my beloved Bowling for Soup to say my final goodbye to sabbatical and summer! #blessed
August 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Simple Plan is on their 25th anniversary tour and they’re in Richmond tonight! Excited to see them and my beloved Bowling for Soup to say my final goodbye to sabbatical and summer! #blessed
One thing about me is I’m gonna log into ScholarOne to track an r&r even though journals will communicate any news via email.
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August 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
One thing about me is I’m gonna log into ScholarOne to track an r&r even though journals will communicate any news via email.
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New at Tusk: The Democrats also doing mid-decade redistricting would be chaos. It's also the only way out of this situation.
The case for Democratic recklessness, redux
The Democrats also doing mid-decade redistricting would be chaos. It's also the only way out of this situation.
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New at Tusk: The Democrats also doing mid-decade redistricting would be chaos. It's also the only way out of this situation.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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⭐NEWLY published: "Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy" in ISR #openaccess
Fantastic collaboration w/ @ninareiners.bsky.social
@kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @andreavilan.bsky.social @lisasundstrom.bsky.social @peacemedie.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social Laura Henry & Soumita Basu 🙏
Fantastic collaboration w/ @ninareiners.bsky.social
@kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @andreavilan.bsky.social @lisasundstrom.bsky.social @peacemedie.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social Laura Henry & Soumita Basu 🙏
✨ Our forum “Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy” is out #openaccess in International Studies Review ✨
👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
@ninahall.bsky.social
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@ninahall.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
⭐NEWLY published: "Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy" in ISR #openaccess
Fantastic collaboration w/ @ninareiners.bsky.social
@kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @andreavilan.bsky.social @lisasundstrom.bsky.social @peacemedie.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social Laura Henry & Soumita Basu 🙏
Fantastic collaboration w/ @ninareiners.bsky.social
@kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @andreavilan.bsky.social @lisasundstrom.bsky.social @peacemedie.bsky.social @sch-ir.bsky.social Laura Henry & Soumita Basu 🙏
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✨ Our forum “Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy” is out #openaccess in International Studies Review ✨
👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
@ninahall.bsky.social
👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
@ninahall.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
✨ Our forum “Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy” is out #openaccess in International Studies Review ✨
👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
@ninahall.bsky.social
👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
@ninahall.bsky.social
I don’t know how fellow academics working on issues of human rights, migration, and international justice can call migrants “stock” even after being urged by colleagues (including me) not to do so because it is dehumanizing and seems at cross purposes with the work they’re doing. It’s appalling.
July 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I don’t know how fellow academics working on issues of human rights, migration, and international justice can call migrants “stock” even after being urged by colleagues (including me) not to do so because it is dehumanizing and seems at cross purposes with the work they’re doing. It’s appalling.
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Ten years since the murder of Black Bible study worshippers by a white power activist in Charleston
June 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Ten years since the murder of Black Bible study worshippers by a white power activist in Charleston
📄 New publication: Stephen Chaudoin and I have a new article in @thejop.bsky.social, featuring the largest-ever survey experiment on public opinion on the ICC (N > 10,000 ppl across Georgia, Israel, Philippines, South Africa, and the US)!
doi.org/10.1086/732982
doi.org/10.1086/732982
Complementarity and Public Views on Overlapping International and Domestic Courts | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3
Can international organizations (IOs) boost support for their authority? We consider the effectiveness of appeals to the principle of complementarity, which holds that IOs only act when domestic insti...
doi.org
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
📄 New publication: Stephen Chaudoin and I have a new article in @thejop.bsky.social, featuring the largest-ever survey experiment on public opinion on the ICC (N > 10,000 ppl across Georgia, Israel, Philippines, South Africa, and the US)!
doi.org/10.1086/732982
doi.org/10.1086/732982