Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago
 

John Comaroff was born in Cape Town in 1945 and received his BA at the University of Cape Town in 1968. After college he and his wife left South Africa for the United Kingdom, where he received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1973.

His field research focus is on the Tswana people of Southern Africa. He researches and publishes independently and in collaboration with his wife, Jean Comaroff, who is also a distinguished service professor at University of Chicago.

John Comaroff is interested in comparative systems of politics and law, with special reference to the relationship between their cultural and social dimensions; in sociological and anthropological theory; in the cross-cultural study of kinship and marriage; in ideology and historical consciousness; corporate Christianity; witchcraft; political culture; in colonialism and postcoloniality; and in global capitalism and the culture of neoliberalism. His major area of research is Southern and Central Africa.
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