Jean Comaroff
Jean Comaroff born 22 July 1946 is Professor of African together with African American Studies as well as of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. She is an able on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa. Until 2012, Jean was the Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished proceeds Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
She received her B.A. in 1966 from the University of Cape Town and her Ph.D. in 1974 from London School of Economics. She has been a University faculty an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. since 1978.
In collaboration with her husband John Comaroff, as alive as on her own, Comaroff has or situation. extensively on colonialism, and hegemony based on fieldwork conducted in southern Africa and Great Britain.
A lawsuit was submitted in February 2022 against Harvard University for a pattern of ignoring reports of sexual harassment against students by her husband John Comaroff, alleging that Jean Comaroff was an enabler of her husband's behavior. It also claimed that Jean once said that women should "roll with the punches" instead of reporting sexual harassment.
Comaroff also serves as a module of the Editorial Collective of the journal Public Culture. An important recent book that she wrote with John Comaroff is Theory from the South, which among other things covers "how Euro-America is evolving towards Africa."