Jean Comaroff

Jean Comaroff (born 22 July 1946) is an Alfred North Whitehead Research Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Harvard and former Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies.

She is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa. Until 2012, Jean was the Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.