Dr. Rosemary Nagy

Edited Books

Melissa Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster, eds., Transitional Justice: Nomos LI, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (New York: New York University Press, 2012).

Refereed Journal Articles

Nagy, Rosemary, Rebecca Timms, Gina Snooks, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, Brenda Quenneville, and Lanyan Chen. "Temporal Discrimination and the Entry-to-Exit Imperative in Canadian Anti-Human Trafficking." Feminist Studies 51, no. 1/2 (2026): 113–142.

Stevens, Nancy, and Rosemary Nagy. "Visioning Our Healing." NAIS Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association 13, no. 1 (2026): 213–242.

Snooks, Gina, Rosemary Nagy, et al. "Blending Feminist, Indigenous, and Participatory Action Research Methodologies: Critical Reflections from the Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking." Feminist Formations 33, no. 2 (2021): 160–184.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Transformative Justice in a Settler Colonial Transition: Implementing UNDRIP in Canada." International Journal of Human Rights (2021): 1–26. Read more

Nagy, Rosemary. "Settler Witnessing at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada." Human Rights Review 21 (2020): 219–241.

Nagy, Rosemary, Gina Snooks, Brenda Quenneville, Kathleen Jodouin, Rebecca Timms, Donna Debassige, and Lanyan Chen. "Human Trafficking in Northeastern Ontario: Collaborative Responses." First Peoples Child & Family Review 15, no. 1 (2020): 80–104. Read more

Nagy, Rosemary. "Can Reconciliation Be Compelled? Transnational Advocacy and the Indigenous-Canada Relationship." Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research 42, no. 3 (2017): 313–341.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Truth, Trauma, Agency." International Journal of Transitional Justice 9, no. 3 (2015): 527–538. [Review essay, reviewed by editors]

Nagy, Rosemary, and Emily Gillespie. "Representing Reconciliation: A News Frame Analysis of Print Media Coverage of Indian Residential Schools." Transitional Justice Review 1, no. 3 (2014). Read more

Nagy, Rosemary. "The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Genesis and Design." Canadian Journal of Law and Society 29, no. 2 (2014): 199–217.

Oduro, Franklin, and Rosemary Nagy. "What's in an Idea? Truth Commission Policy Transfer in Ghana and Canada." Journal of Human Rights 13, no. 1 (2014): 85–102.

Nagy, Rosemary. "The Scope and Bounds of Transitional Justice and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission." International Journal of Transitional Justice 7, no. 1 (2013): 52–73.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Truth, Reconciliation and Settler Denial: Specifying the Canada–South Africa Analogy." Human Rights Review 13, no. 3 (2012): 349. Read more

Nagy, Rosemary, and Robinder Kaur Sehdev. "Introduction: Residential Schools and Decolonization." Canadian Journal of Law and Society 27, no. 1 (2012): 67–73. [Reviewed by journal editor, as guest editors for a special section] Read more

Thomson, Susan M., and Rosemary Nagy. "Law, Power and Justice: Local Power Dynamics in Rwanda's Gacaca Courts." International Journal of Transitional Justice 5, no. 1 (2011): 11–30.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Transitional Justice as Global Project: Critical Reflections." Third World Quarterly 29, no. 2 (2008): 275–289.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Post-Apartheid Justice: Can Cosmopolitanism and Nation-Building Be Reconciled?" Law and Society Review 40, no. 3 (2006): 623–652.

Nagy, Rosemary. "After the TRC: Citizenship, Memory and Reconciliation." Canadian Journal of African Studies 38, no. 3 (2004): 638–653.

Nagy, Rosemary. "The Ambiguities of Reconciliation and Responsibility in South Africa." Political Studies 52 (2004): 709–727.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Violence, Amnesty and Transitional Law: 'Private' Acts and 'Public' Truth in South Africa." African Journal of Legal Studies 1, no. 1 (2004): 1–22.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Reconciliation in Post-Commission South Africa: Thick and Thin Accounts of Solidarity." Canadian Journal of Political Science 35, no. 2 (2002): 323–346.

Chapters in Edited Books

Nagy, Rosemary. "Settler Researchers: From a Place of Not Knowing." In On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Relations and Resistances, edited by David B. MacDonald and Emily Grafton. University of Regina Press, 2026.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Disentangling Victimhood in Canadian Anti-Human Trafficking: A Transformative Justice Response." In Rematriating Justice: Honouring the Lives of Our Sisters, edited by Jennifer Brant and D. Memee Lavell-Harvard. Demeter Press, 2024.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Transitional Justice, Trauma and Healing: Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada." In REDRESS: Ireland and Transitional Justice, edited by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke, and James M. Smith. University College Dublin, 2022.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Transnational Advocacy for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women." In Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant. Demeter Press, 2016.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Transitional Justice as Global Project: Critical Reflections." Reprinted in Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice, edited by Peer Zumbansen and Ruth Buchanan. Hart Publishing, 2016.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Combatting Violence Against Indigenous Women: Reconciliation as Decolonisation for Canada's Stolen Sisters." In Rape Justice: Beyond the Realm of Law, edited by Anastasia Powell, Nicola Henry, and Asher Flynn. Palgrave, 2015.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Centralizing Legal Pluralism? Traditional Justice in Transitional Context." In Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding on the Ground: Victims and Ex-combatants, edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram, Jemima García-Godos, Johanna Herman, and Olga Martin-Ortega. Routledge, 2012.

Williams, Melissa, and Rosemary Nagy. "Introduction." In Nomos: Transitional Justice, edited by Melissa Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster. NYU Press, 2012.

Nagy, Rosemary. "Traditional Justice and Legal Pluralism in Transitional Context: The Case of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts." In Reconciliation(s): Transitional Justice in Postconflict Societies, edited by Joanna R. Quinn. McGill-Queen's Press, 2009.

Nagy, Rosemary. "After the TRC: Citizenship, Memory and Reconciliation." In Fragile Freedom: Democracy's First Decade in South Africa, edited by A. H. Jeeves and G. Cuthbertson. University of South Africa Press, 2009.

Book Reviews

Review of Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice: From International and Criminal to Alternative Forms of Justice, edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Estelle Zinsstag (Intersentia Press, 2013). Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 26, no. 2 (2014): 464–467.

Review of What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations, edited by Ruth Rubio-Marín (Social Science Research Council, 2006). Peace and Change 35, no. 4 (2010): 660–663.

Review of Transitional Justice From Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change, edited by Kieran McEvoy and Lorna McGregor (Hart, 2008). Law and Society Review 43, no. 3 (2009): 707–709.

Guest Editing

Guest co-editor (with Robinder K. Sehdev), Canadian Journal of Law and Society, special section on Truth, Reconciliation and Residential Schools (2012, vol. 17).

Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance for Human Trafficking (NORAHT) Non-refereed Reports

Nagy, Rosemary, Gina Snooks, Rebecca Timms, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, Brenda Quenneville, and Lanyan Chen. "Transitions and Fluidity: Exploring Women's Agency in the Sex Industry." North Bay: Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking, 2020.

Nagy, Rosemary, Gina Snooks, Jylelle Carpenter-Boesch, Kathleen Jodouin, Brenda Quenneville, Donna Debassige, Rebecca Timms, and Lanyan Chen. "Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation in Northeastern Ontario: Service Provider and Survivor Needs and Perspectives." NORAHT: North Bay, 2018.

Nagy, Rosemary, Gina Snooks, Kathleen Jodouin, Brenda Quenneville, Megan Stevens, Lanyan Chen, Donna Debassige, and Rebecca Timms. "Community Service Providers and Human Trafficking: Best Practices and Recommendations for Northeastern Ontario." NORAHT: North Bay, 2018.

Nagy, Rosemary, et al. "Baseline Survey Results," 2016.

NORAHT Policy Briefs, Toolkits, and Webinars

Nagy, Rosemary, Gina Snooks, Brenda Quenneville, Lanyan Chen, Sydnee Wiggins, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, and Rebecca Timms. "Violence, Exploitation and Abuse in the Sex Trade: Strategies for Service Provider Collaboration." Policy Brief No. 1, Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking, 2020.

Quenneville, Brenda, Gina Snooks, Rosemary Nagy, Kathleen Jodouin, Lanyan Chen, Donna Debassige, Rebecca Timms, and Sydnee Wiggins. "Trauma and Violence Informed Approaches to Service Provision." Policy Brief No. 2, Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking, 2020.

Nagy, Rosemary, Brenda Quenneville, Gina Snooks, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, Rebecca Timms, and Lanyan Chen. "Decolonize Our Actions! Providing Services to Indigenous Persons Involved in the Sex Industry." Policy Brief No. 3, Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking, 2020.

Jodouin, Kathleen, and Sydnee Wiggins. "Safer Places: Harm Reduction Strategies to Address Human Trafficking." Policy Brief No. 4, Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking, 2020.

Nagy, Rosemary. "The Impacts of Anti-Human Trafficking on Sex Workers." Policy Brief No. 5, Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking, 2020.

Nagy, Rosemary, Gina Snooks, Brenda Quenneville, Lanyan Chen, Sydnee Wiggins, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, and Rebecca Timms. "Service Mapping Toolkit: Strategies for Service Provider Collaboration," 2020.

Quenneville, Brenda, Gina Snooks, Donna Debassige, Kathleen Jodouin, Rosemary Nagy, Rebecca Timms, Lanyan Chen, and Sydnee Wiggins. "Trauma and Violence Informed Approaches to Human Trafficking: A Critical Reflection Workbook for Service Providers." North Bay: Northeastern Ontario Research Alliance on Human Trafficking, 2020.

Quenneville, Brenda, Gina Snooks, et al. "Trauma and Violence Informed Approaches to Human Trafficking." Webinar, 2020. Read more

Jodouin, Kathleen, Rosemary Nagy, et al. "Strategies for Service Provider Collaboration." Webinar, 2020. Read more

Jodouin, Kathleen, et al. "Safer Places: Harm Reduction Approaches to Human Trafficking." Webinar, 2020. Read more