2026 John L. Comaroff: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	48	3051	2797	1478	1334	165	17503

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17503

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3051

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1478

Research.com Recognitions

1995 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

John L. Comaroff is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their scholarly output primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science alongside contributions to finance, anthropology, law, and education.

Their research engages with several key topics, including:

Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
South African History and Culture
African Studies and Sociopolitical Issues
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Anthropological Studies and Insights
Political Economy and Marxism
Digital Economy and Work Transformation

John L. Comaroff has published in a variety of academic journals, including:

Revue européenne de migrations internationales
Critical Historical Studies
The Monist
Focaal
Critical Inquiry

Some of their recent papers include:

After Labor, 2020, published in Critical Historical Studies
The Wealth of Ethno-Nations: Notes on the Identity Economy, 2021, published in Revue européenne de migrations internationales
Generationality: On Intergenerationality, Transgenerationality, and the 'Generation War', 2023, published in The Monist
In/ter/dependence: An afterword, 2021, published in Focaal
Front Matter, 2020, published in Critical Inquiry

Their frequent co-authors include:

Jean Comaroff
George Paul Meiu
Liliana Suni
Freddy Panuera

John L. Comaroff was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.

Best Publications

Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony

Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

1642
Citations
Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming

Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

1550
Citations
Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa

Unknown

1412
Citations
Ethnography and the historical imagination

John L. Comaroff;John Jean Comaroff

1307
Citations
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier

Meredith McKittrick;John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

969
Citations
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff;Robert P. Weller

714
Citations
Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa.

Sam C. Nolutshungu;Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

711
Citations
Law and disorder in the postcolony

Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

649
Citations
Rules and Processes: The Cultural Logic of Dispute in an African Context

John L. Comaroff;Simon Roberts

439
Citations
Alien-nation: zombies, immigrants, and millennial capitalism.

Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

283
Citations
Civil society and the political imagination in Africa : critical perspectives

John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

277
Citations
Christianity and colonialism in South Africa

Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

259
Citations
Colonialism, Culture, and the Law: A Foreword

John L. Comaroff

237
Citations
Ethnography on an Awkward Scale

Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

222
Citations
On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa

John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

222
Citations
Goodly beasts, beastly goods: cattle and commodities in a South African context

John L. Comaroff

211
Citations
Reflections on the Colonial State, in South Africa and Elsewhere: Factions, Fragments, Facts and Fictions

John L. Comaroff

206
Citations
The Meaning of marriage payments

Susan Drucker-Brown;J. L. Comaroff

186
Citations
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination

Joan Vincent;John Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

44
Citations
Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, Volume 1.

Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

23
Citations
Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Post-Colonial Africa

Richard M. Shain;Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

17
Citations
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives

Blair Rutherford;John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

13
Citations
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination.

Jan Vansina;Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul C. Stern Social and Environmental Research Institute

Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society

Arjun Appadurai New York University

Paul Farmer Harvard University

Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley

Talal Asad City University of New York

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University

Byron J. Good Harvard University

Daniel E. Lieberman Harvard University

Nick Patterson Harvard University

External Links

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