Jean Comaroff, Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2009-2010 Phi Beta Kappa/Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar
Jean Comaroff , Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences and recipient of two Quantrell Awards for excellence in teaching, joined the faculty of Chicago in 1978. Her research on colonialism, globalization, and modernity, much of it carried out in South Africa and Botswana, focuses on the body, healing, and religious practice. Current interests include law and the struggle for human rights, state sovereignty, and law and social order in postcolonial contexts. She is the author of Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People; and the co-author or co-editor with John Comaroff of Of Revelation and Revolution Vol. I: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa; Of Revelation and Revolution Vol. II: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier; Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa; and Law and Disorder in the Postcolony.
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she served twice as the director of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), and was the Matina Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard. She has given endowed lectures throughout the U.S. and abroad and held numerous visiting professorships.
Visiting Scholar itinerary:
Wednesday-Thursday, October 21-22
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Monday-Tuesday, November 2-3
University of Mississippi, Oxford
Thursday-Friday, November 5-6
Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
Monday-Tuesday, November 9-10
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Tuesday-Wednesday, April 20-21
Austin College, Sherman, Texas