Jean Comaroff

Jean Comaroff
Prof. Jean Comaroff in Cape Town, South Africa, February 2009
Born	(1946-07-22) 22 July 1946 (age 77) Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater	University of Cape Town London School of Economics
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology
Institutions	University of Chicago Harvard University

Jean Comaroff (born 22 July 1946) is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. She is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa.^[1] Until 2012, Jean was the Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.^[2]