21 Facts About John Comaroff

John L Comaroff was born on 1 January 1945 and is a retired professor of African and African American Studies and of anthropology.

John Comaroff is recognized for his study of African and African-American society.

John Comaroff has written several texts describing his research and has presented peer-reviewed anthropological theories of African cultures that have relevance to understanding global society.

John Comaroff's father's family was from Russian Empire, Ukraine: his grandfather migrated in the early 1890s from Ukraine to England, and his father, Louis, was born in Rhodesia.

John Comaroff was the first person in his family to attend university.

John Comaroff attended the University of Cape Town, where he developed his interest in anthropology.

John Comaroff has conducted most of his field research in South Africa.

John Comaroff then focused his research on the social and cultural aspects of economic development of the Barolong in Botswana for 15 months in 1974 and 1975.

John Comaroff joined the American Bar Foundation in 1991 as a research fellow until 2012.

John Comaroff is no longer an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation.

Since 2009, John Comaroff has worked on the project Ethnicity Inc.

John and Jean Comaroff spent 34 years teaching at the University of Chicago.

In 2012, he and Jean John Comaroff took teaching positions at Harvard University.

John Comaroff has been a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Wales, University College of Swansea, and the University of Manchester.

John Comaroff was a visiting professor at the University of California Riverside, Duke University, Tel Aviv University, University of Basel, and the University of Vienna.

Additionally, John Comaroff was an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Manchester in the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research and in the Department of Social Anthropology.

Furthermore, John Comaroff was a visiting scholar at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin and a visiting fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advance Study in South Africa.

Since 2004, John Comaroff has been an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town.

University administrators initially placed John Comaroff on "paid administrative leave" in August 2020 amid a review of the allegations.

John Comaroff faced a similar walkout and protest at his first class of January 2023.

John and Jean Comaroff both retired from Harvard that year, but said their retirement was unrelated to the case.