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48
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17503
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3051
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1478

John L. Comaroff publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John L. Comaroff sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 165 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

John L. Comaroff D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John L. Comaroff sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming

    Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

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

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  • Ethnography and the historical imagination

    John L. Comaroff;John Jean Comaroff

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

    Meredith McKittrick;John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

  • Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

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

  • Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa.

    Sam C. Nolutshungu;Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

  • Law and disorder in the postcolony

    Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

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

    John L. Comaroff;Simon Roberts

  • Alien-nation: zombies, immigrants, and millennial capitalism.

    Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

  • Civil society and the political imagination in Africa : critical perspectives

    John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

  • Christianity and colonialism in South Africa

    Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

  • Colonialism, Culture, and the Law: A Foreword

    John L. Comaroff

  • Ethnography on an Awkward Scale

    Jean Comaroff;John L. Comaroff

  • On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa

    John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

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

    John L. Comaroff

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

    John L. Comaroff

  • The Meaning of marriage payments

    Susan Drucker-Brown;J. L. Comaroff

  • Ethnography and the Historical Imagination

    Joan Vincent;John Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

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

    Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

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

    Richard M. Shain;Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

  • Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa: Critical Perspectives

    Blair Rutherford;John L. Comaroff;Jean Comaroff

  • Ethnography and the Historical Imagination.

    Jan Vansina;Jean Comaroff;John Comaroff

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul C. Stern
Paul C. Stern Social and Environmental Research Institute
Nina Glick Schiller
Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society
Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai New York University
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Aihwa Ong
Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Byron J. Good
Byron J. Good Harvard University
Daniel E. Lieberman
Daniel E. Lieberman Harvard University
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University

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