Professor
John L. Comaroff
Press News
Retirement Celebration For John And Jean Comaroff
An international retirement celebration was held to honor the long, widely celebrated careers of John
John Comaroff Publishes A Reflection On Sovereignty, Postcoloniality And The Commodification Of Traditional Authority In South Africa
A number of ‘customary’ African kings and chiefs – historically accountable to the will of
COMAROFFS PUBLISH NEW ESSAY ON GENERATIONS AND GENERATIONALITY
John and Jean Comaroff recently published a pathbreaking new essay on a topic of critical
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION OF THE DIARY OF SOL T. PLAATJE
The Boer War Diary of Sol. T. Plaatje, edited by John Comaroff, was first published
Case against Harvard over the alleged misconduct of John Comaroff ends in an agreed Dismissal
On August 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued
Dismissal “with prejudice” of case against Harvard vindicates Professor John Comaroff
The years-long campaign to smear and destroy the career and reputation of distinguished Harvard Professor
Published Books
Essays
Ethnicity, Inc.
In October 2000, Business Day, a leading South African newspaper, published an extraordinary story. Its
Figuring Democracy
12.01 a.m., 25 April 1994. Wale Street, Cape Town, South Africa: The last strains of
Foreward: Everyday State and Democracy in Africa
Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters, notable for both its timeliness and breadth