CURRICULUM VITAE John L. Comaroff Personal

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CURRICULUM VITAEJohn L. ComaroffPersonalCitizenship:Birth:Marital Status:Website:United States of America1 January, 1945; Cape Town, South AfricaMarried, two childrenwww.JohnComaroff.comEducationUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa; B.A., 1966University of London (London School of Economics), Ph.D., ugh K. Foster Professor of of African and African-American Studies andof Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies,Harvard UniversityLecturer in Social Anthropology, Department of Sociology andAnthropology, University College of Swansea, University of WalesLecturer in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology,University of ManchesterVisiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of ChicagoAssistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College,University of ChicagoAssociate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College,University of ChicagoVisiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California,RiversideAssociate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, and Chair,Committee on African Studies, University of ChicagoProfessor of Sociology, University of ChicagoProfessor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, Universityof ChicagoDirecteur d'Études Associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, ParisVisiting Professor, Duke UniversityVisiting Fellow, American Bar FoundationSenior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation1

1991-41994-5Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of ChicagoHonorary Senior Fellow, International Centre for Contemporary CulturalResearch, University of Manchester1995Directeur d'Études Associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris1996-8Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology,University of Manchester1996–2012 Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology andSocial Sciences in the College, University of Chicago1998Visiting Scholar, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin1999-2000 Visiting Research Associate, University of the North West, South Africa2000Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University2003Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University2004–20Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town2004–2012 Faculty Fellow and co-founder, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory2005Visiting Professor, University of Basel2006Fulbright Senior Specialist, Council for International Exchange ofScholars, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Hebrew University, BenGurion University, Israel2007Visiting Professor, University of Vienna2008-2012 Research Professor, American Bar Foundation2010Visiting Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa)2010Research Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (International Research Center for Cultural Studies; IFK), Vienna2011Visiting Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa)2012-22Affiliated Research Professor, American Bar Foundation2012Professor of African and African-American Studies, Professor ofAnthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies,Harvard University2013Hugh K. Foster Professor of of African and African-American Studies andof Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow in African Studies,Harvard University2013Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, HarvardUniversity2017Invited Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study, NorwegianAcademy of Science and Letters2019J.Y. Pillay Visiting Professor, Yale-NUS College, SingaporeAwards, Grants, Distinguished Lectures, Professional Recognition1965-6University Scholarship for Merit, University of Cape Town (recurring)1970-1Esperanza Trust Grant (for writing doctoral dissertation), Royal2

Anthropological Institute, England1974-6Social Science Research Council [UK], grant HR 3011/1, The Formationof a New Political Order: the Barolong boo Ratshidi1984-5National Endowment for the Humanities [USA] grant, Class, Culture andthe Rise of Capitalism in an African Chiefdom1986-7National Science Foundation grant [with Jean Comaroff], TheDevelopment of Religious Consciousness in South AfricaNational Endowment for the Humanities grant [with Jean Comaroff],Christianity, Colonialism, and Black Consciousness in South Africa1989Chesley Lecturer, Carleton College1991Spencer Foundation grant [with Jean Comaroff] The Impact of MissionEducation on Black Consciousness in South AfricaMessenger Lecturer, Cornell UniversityKeynote Lecture, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Conference on Ethnicity, Nationality, Polity: The Changing AfricanLandscape1993Opening Address, Russian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Ethnology/U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on InternationalCooperation and Conflict), Moscow, Conference on Balancing andSharing Political Power in Multiethnic SocietiesDean's Lecture, University of Calgary, "Multiculturalism and Other' Worlds: encyclopaedias, ecumenes, and critical eyes"Plenary Lecture, Institute of Social and Economic Research, RhodesUniversity, South Africa, Conference on Ethnicity, Identity and Nationalismin South Africa[with J. Comaroff] Laing Prize (awarded for the best book by a Universityof Chicago faculty member published by the University Press); for OfRevelation and Revolution, Volume I[with J. Comaroff] American Bar Foundation and National Foundationgrants for Resistance and Rebellion in Black South Africa, 1830-19203

1994Keynote Lecture, 6th Annual Historical Studies Spring Conference, NewSchool for Social Research, "The Discourse of Rights in Colonial SouthAfricaBook Feature in South African Historical Journal, 31, on Of Revelationand Revolution Volume I and Ethnography and the Historical Imagination1995London School of Economics Centenary Lectures in Law and Society,"Legality, Modernity and Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa: An Excursionin the Historical Anthropology of Law"Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences1996Journal of Anthropological Research Distinguished LectureSpencer Mentor Network award to train doctoral students1997Keynote Address, University Continuing Education Association, 13thAnnual Conference, New York University, on Planning Non-WesternEducation in a Multicultural AgeKeynote Address, University of Michigan, Conference on MethodologicalReflections on Culture and History, "Doing and Undoing Ethnography: AReflection on Method, Mutants, and the Millennium"Distinguished Lecture Series, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, "TheorizingColonialism"1998Max Gluckman Memorial Lecture, University of Manchester (with JeanComaroff), "Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notesfrom the South African Postcolony"K.H. Michael Creal Lecture in Religion and Practical Ethics, YorkUniversity (Toronto)Riesman Memorial Lecture, Carleton College (with Jean Comaroff)American Ethnological Association Invited Session--"Authors Meet Critics:Reading Jean and John Comaroff's Of Revelation and Revolution, II".American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, December 19981999Plenary Talk, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, Conference on Challengingthe Nation State, "Paradoxes of the Postcolonial State: An Africanist4

Perspective"Bulletin for Contextual Theology, 5(1,2), on "Hegemony, Ideology andSocial Construction: Special Focus on the W ork of John and JeanComaroff"Plenary Address, University of the North West, South Africa, Conferenceon Transformations in Higher Education, "The Changing Nature of theUniversity: A Global Perspective" (with Jean Comaroff)2000Munro Lecture, University of Edinburgh (with Jean Comaroff)"2000 Years: Faith, Culture, and Identity in the Common Era" LectureSeries, St Andrews University (with Jean Comaroff)Walker-Ames Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle (with JeanComaroff)Council of Editors of Learned Journals Prize for Best Special Issue of aJournal in 2000 awarded to Millenial Capitalism and the Culture ofNeoliberalism in Public Culture, 2(2), (co-edited with Jean Comaroff)2001Keynote Address, Second Semi-Annual Workshop of the TransnationalStudies Seminar, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign (with Jean Comaroff)Jensen Memorial Lectures, Frobenius Institute, Johann W olfgang GoetheUniversität Frankfurt Am Main (with Jean Comaroff)Closing Address, International Conference on Religion and Social Theoryin a Changing World, University of Cape Town (with Jean Comaroff)Address at the Launching of the New Program of Witwatersrand Institutefor Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg (with Jean Comaroff)Mini-Symposium, The Comaroffs on Nature and Personhood, publishedby Social Identities, 7(2):233-2842002Plenary Lecture, Society for Comparative Research, Annual GraduateStudent Workshop, Central European University, BudapestLlewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence inUndergraduate Teaching, University of Chicago5

History Colloquium Annual Lecture, Southwestern University (with JeanComaroff)Stiftungsgastprofesseur Wissenschaft und Gessellschaft der DeutschenBank AG, Lecture, Johann W olfang Goethe University of Frankfurt (withJean Comaroff)Public Lecture, Zuid-Afrika Week, University of Leiden2003Moderator, Symposium on the Future of Critical Inquiry, University ofChicagoAmerican Historical Review, 108 (2):434-78, April 2003, "Review Essays:Colonialism and the Possibilities of Historical Anthropology," devoted tothe recent work of John and Jean ComaroffRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Fellow’s Presentation Series Lecture2004[with J. Comaroff] American Bar Foundation grant for Popular Justice,Communal Violence, and Alternative Policing in the New South Africa: thepolitics of order in a Brave Neo World[with J. Comaroff] Monica Wilson Memorial Lecture, University of CapeTown[with J. Comaroff] Establishment of the Chicago Center for ContemporaryTheory, University of ChicagoInvited Lecture, Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/ MartinLuther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg University, Halle, Germany[with J. Comaroff] Inaugural Lecture, Institute for the Study of Race andSocial Thought, Temple University2005National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Scholar for2004-5, Rice University Center for the Study of Cultures[with J. Comaroff] Keynote Address, Conference on Fetishizing the FreeMarket: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign[with J. Comaroff] Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2005, Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel, University of Basel6

[with J. Comaroff] National Science Foundation Grant Popular Justice,Communal Violence, and Alternative Policing in the New South Africa: thepolitics of order in a Brave Neo World2006Anniversary Lecture, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research,University of the WitwatersrandPlenary Talk, University of Stellenbosch, to launch Limits to Liberationafter Apartheid (ed. Steven Robins, 2005)“Grand Lecture,” University of ViennaKeynote Lecture, Conference on Law and Governance, Max PlanckInstitute, HalleKeynote Address, International Union of Anthropological and EthnologicalSciences, Inter-Congress, South Africa2007Received the Anders Retzius Gold Medal from the Swedish Society forAnthropology and Geography, presented by the King of SwedenOpening Lecture, Vega Day Scientific Symposium, Swedish Society forAnthropology and Geography, StockholmInaugural Lecture, Inter-Faculty Seminar in Social Dynamics, North WestUniversity South AfricaKeynote Lecture, Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society,TorontoKeynote Lecture, Workshop on Law, Culture and Society, National Tsinghua University, TaiwanKeynote Address, Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association ofIsraelKeynote Address, “Selves, Histories and Media: Engaging the Anthropology of Tania Forte,” Ben Gurion University, IsraelPublic Lecture, University of Zurich, Interdisziplinäre Veranstungsreihe on“Border Crossings in a Globalizing World”Inaugural Lecture, Workshop on Living Customary Law, University ofCape Town Law School7

2008Jensen Memorial Lecture, “The End of Anthropology, Again: Toward aNew In/Discipline.” Frobenius Institute, Johann W olfgang GoetheUniversität Frankfurt Am MainHarry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize, Law and Society Association [with J. Comaroff]Keynote Address, “Nations With/out Borders: Neoliberalism and theProblem of Belonging in Africa, and Beyond,” Conference onGlobalization Governance, Shifting Sovereignties, University of Wisconsin[with Jean Comaroff]2009Mellon Learning Associate, Bates CollegePublic Conversation with Justice Yvonne Mokgoro (Constitutional Court ofSouth Africa) on “Law, Liberalism, and Ubuntu Jurisprudence in SouthAfrica,” John Hope Franklin Center, Duke UniversityBaldy Center, University at Buffalo (SUNY), “Theorists and Jurists”Lecture[with J. Comaroff] National Science Foundation Grant, SE S-0848647,Ethnicity, Inc.2010Distinguished Speaker Series, Monmouth UniversityDistinguished Anthropology Lecture, University of Texas (Austin)Guest Scholar, Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology, 2010, BernFellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (South Africa), AugustKeynote Address, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI),“Divination, Detection, and the Problem of Sovereignty in Post-ColonialContexts.”Public Conversation on the Work of John and Jean Comaroff,Litteraturhuset, OsloEric Wolf Memorial Lecture, “History and the People Beyond Europe,”Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaPublic Lecture, “Theory from the South,” Berliner Institutskolloquium,Decentering Europe, Humboldt University, BerlinInternational Panel convened to discuss Ethnicity, Inc. at the Internationa8

les Forschungszentrum Kultuwissenschaften (IFK), ViennaPublic Lecture, “Detective Fictions: Further Adventures in Policing thePostcolony,” Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna2011Public Lecture, “Ethnicity Inc.: Further Thoughts,” University of FloridaOpening Keynote Lecture, World University Network Conference on ThePolitics of Culture, “The Uses and Abuses of Culture: Ethnicity.co,Ethnicity.gov, Ethnicity.org, Ethnicity.edu,” University of Cape Town, 21July 2011Public Lecture, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires,“Criminal Accounting: Quantifacts and the Production of the Un/Real,” 16August 2011Opening Lecture, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, “Theory from theSouth: Further Thoughts,” 22 September 2011Entry in Fifty Key Anthropologists, (eds.) Robert Gordon, Andrew P.Lyons, and Harriet D. Lyons (London ; New York : Routledge)Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa(Paradigm Publishers, 2011) designated as an Outstanding AcademicBook for 2011 by Choice MagazineTheory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa(Paradigm Publishers, 2011) designated as an Outstanding AcademicTitle, Social and Behavioral Sciences for 2011 by Eastern Book CompanyPlenary Author meets Critics Panel on Theory from the South: Or, HowEuro-America is Evolving Toward Africa, American AnthropologyAssociation Meetings, Montreal, 19 November 20112012University of Sydney: Public Lecture in Sydney Ideas Series, “Reflectionson Cultural Identity: Ethnicity, Intellectual Property, and the Commodification of Collective Being, 9 May 2012.University of Southern California, Tenth Annual Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture, “Divine Detection: Crime and the Metaphysics ofDisorder.”University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Interdisciplinary Studies Institute,Inaugural Lecture, “Theory from the South, Revisited.”9

2013University of Cape Town Law School, Rabinowitz Visiting Lecture, “TheReturn of Khulekani Khumalo, Zombie Captive: Identity, Law, and theParadoxes of Personhood in South Africa.”University of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Law andSociety, Special Lecture, “The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, ZombieCaptive: Identity, Law, and the Paradoxes of Personhood in South Africa.”Boston University, 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference, KeynoteLecture, “Reflections on the Present and Future of African Studies.”2013-14Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, Illinois Wesleyan University, HofstraUniversity, Ripon College, Butler University, Hendrix College, HamlineUniversity, Carleton College, Trinity College, Birmingham-SouthernCollege.2014Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Workshop on theWork of Jean and John Comaroff, “Theorizing the Social World fromAfrica.”El Colegio de México, “Imposture, Law, and Personhood in South Africa.”Institute of Philosophical Research, National Autonomous University ofMexico, Time and Politics Seminar, “The Return of Khulekani Khumalo,Zombie Captive: Identity, Law, and the Paradoxes of Personhood in SouthAfrica.”2015SSRC Workshop, “Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa,” CapeTown, Plenary Lecture, "Unscrewing the Inscrutable, or How to MakeSense of Identity in South Africa: an exercise in method and theory."Stanley Trapido Seminar, University of the Free State, South Africa:“Imposture, Law, and Personhood in South Africa.”Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California,Berkeley, “Conversations in Law and Society: a filmed interview with Johnand Jean Comaroff.”Visiting Scholar Lecture, The Phi Beta Kappa Society, 44th TriennialCouncil, Denver, “Ethnicity Inc. Revisited.”2016Keynote Roundtable, Law and Society Association Annual Conference,New Orleans, “Law and Disorder in the Postcolony: Celebrating TenYears in Print and Practice.”10

Keynote Participant, Opening Symposium, 10th Anniversary of theChicago Center for Critical Theory, University of Chicago, established byJean and John Comaroff.Keynote Lecture, Maurice Halbwachs Summer Institute, George-AugustUniversität Göttingen, Crime, Dis/Order, Narration [on Jean and JohnComaroff’s The Truth About Crime: Knowledge, Sovereignty, Social Order(2016)], “The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, zombie captive: onimposture, personhood, and the law in South Africa.Opening Lecture, Workshop on Médiation et Conciliation: nouvellesfigures, nouveaux défis, Centre Jacques-Berque [études en scienceshumaines st socialest], Rabat, Morocco, “Courting History: lawfare,reconciliation, and the forensic production of the future.”William Fagg Annual Lecture, British Museum,“Personhood, Law, and theAesthetics of Personhood in South Africa.”2017Public Discussion, University of California, Irvine, “Reading The Truthabout Crime.”University of Bologna, “Crime, Sovereignty, and the State: themetaphysics of global dis/order.”University of Stellenbosch, Mellon Foundation Indexing the HumanSeminar Series, panel discussion on The Truth about Crime: Knowledge,Sovereignty, Social Order, Jean and John Comaroff.Hamburg University, “Out of the Dark,” im Rahmen der Lecture Series,“The Truth about Crime: knowledge, sovereignty, social order.”Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia, “Thinking about Lawand Violence in the Colombian Post-Conflict, with Jean and JohnComaroff,” a conference and public lecture.Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,Invited Research Fellow; public lecture, “Conflict and Dis/order amongTswana in Colonial and Postcolonial South Africa,”2018Oxford University, Oxford Centre for Global History, “Crime, Sovereigntyand the State: On the Metaphysics of Disorder.”New School for Social Research, Institute for Critical Social Inquiry,“Theory from the South, Revisited.”11

University of Leipzig, “Reflections on the Metaphysics of Global Disorder:Criminal Obsessions.”Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, University of Stellenbosch,“After Mandela: Citizenship, Generation, Historical Time.”Williams College, W. Ford Schumann ‘50 Program in Democratic Studies,Lecture, “Crime, Sovereignty and the State: Democracy and theMetaphysics of Disorder.”2019Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Lih Yih-yuan MemorialLecture, “After Labor: On the Future of Work.”J.Y. Pillay Lecture, Yale-NUS, Singapore, “After Labor.”2020University of Torino, Lectio Magistralis, “After Labor: Further Thoughts onTheory from the South.Lectures and papers have also been presented at the following universities, colleges,and institutions:Argentina:Universidad de San MartinAustralia:University of SydneyAustria:Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna,Internationales Forschungszentrum KulturwissenschaftenBelgium:Université Libre de BruxellesBrazil:University of Saõ PauloCanada:University of Calgary, University of Toronto, York UniversityColombia:Universidad del Rosario, Universidad de los AndesDenmark:Roskilde University, University of Copenhagen, University ofAarhusFrance:École des Hautes Études en Sciences SocialesGermany:Ruprecht-Karls-Universität (Heidelberg), Universität Bayeuth,Universität Koeln (Cologne), Freie Universität (Berlin), HumboldtUniversität (Berlin); Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität FrankfurtAm Main; George-August-Universität Göttingen; UniversitätHamburg, Universität Leipzig, Universität Mainz, Max Planck12

Institute (Halle), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Halle)Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong KongHungary:Central European UniversityIsrael/Palestine:Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Haifa University, the HebrewUniversity, Tel Aviv University, Muwatin Palestine Institute for theStudy of Democracy, Van Leer Institute, Israeli Association ofAnthropologyItaly:University of Bologna, University of Milano Bicocca, University ofTorinoMexico:National Autonomous University of Mexico; El Colegio de México;University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC)Morocco:Centre Jacques-Berque (études en sciences humaines et sociales,Rabat)Netherlands: University of Amsterdam, University of Leiden, University of RotterdamNorway:University of Bergen, University of Oslo, Oslo University College,Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Centre for AdvancedStudy (Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters)Russia:Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly Academy of Sciences ofthe USSR); Kazan State University; Institute of History, TartarstanAcademy of SciencesSingapore:National University of Singapore, Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity, Yale-National University of Singapore [YNUS]Spain:University of La Coruña; International Institute for the Sociology ofLaw (Oñati); Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de BarcelonaSweden:Swedish Society of Anthropology and GeographySwitzerland: University of Basel, University of Berne, University of Neuchâtel,University of Zurich, The Graduate Center (Geneva)Taiwan:National Tsinghua University, National Taiwan University, Academia Sinica13

Turkey:Sabanci UniversityU.K.:British Museum, University of Cambridge, Edinburgh University,London School of Economics, Queens University (Belfast), Schoolof Oriental and African Studies, St. Andrews University, UniversityCollege (London), University of Manchester, Oxford University,University of Reading, University of Sussex, University of Wales,York UniversityU.S.A.:Amherst College, Arizona State University, Barnard College, Boston University, Bates College, Birmingham-Southern University,Bowdoin College, Brown University, Bryn Mawr, Butler University,California Institute of Technology, University of California (Berkeley), University of California (Irvine), University of California (LosAngeles), University of California (Riverside), University of California (San Diego), University of California (Santa Barbara), Universityof California (Santa Cruz), Carleton College, University of Colorado, Colby College, Columbia University, Cornell University, DukeUniversity, Emory University, University of Florida, GoucherCollege, Hamline University, Harvard University, Haverford College,Hendrix College, Hofstra University, University of Illinois (UrbanaChampaign), Illinois Wesleyan University, Indiana University,University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, University of Miami, University of Michigan, Universityof Minnesota, University of New Mexico, Monmouth University,New School University, City University of New York, New York LawSchool, New York University, University of North Carolina, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta KappaSociety. University of Pittsburgh, Pitzer College, PrincetonUniversity, Ripon College, University of Southern California, Southwestern University, Stanford University, Temple University,University of Texas, Trinity College, Tulane University, University atBuffalo (SUNY), University of Washington, Wellesley College,University of Western Michigan, Williams College, University ofWisconsin, Wheaton College, Yale UniversityAfrica:University of Cape Town, University of the Free State, University ofNatal, University of the North West, University of Pretoria,University of Potchefstroom, Rhodes University, University ofStellenbosch, University of the Western Cape, University of theWitwatersrand, CODESRIA (Dakar)Field Research1969-70Research on society and culture, politics and law, among the Barolong14

boo Ratshidi (Tswana) of the South Africa-Botswana borderland (19months)1972-3Supplementary research on society and culture, and preparation forfilming Heal the Whole Man, among the Barolong boo Ratshidi, MafekingDistrict, South Africa (3 months)1974-5Research on the social and cultural dimensions of economic"development" among the Barolong of Botswana (15 months)1977-8Research on the rise of agrarian capitalism among the Barolong ofBotswana (3 months)1990-8Summer research visits to Bophuthatswana (now the North WestProvince) and elsewhere in South Africa1999-2001Research on occult-related violence in the North West Province, SouthAfrica (15 months)2002-2015Summer research on Crime and Policing in the North West Province,South Africa2005-2010Summer research on the commodification of ethnic identity and culturalproperty among Tswana and San peoples, South Africa2013-2019Summer research on imposture, personhood, and the law in KwaZuluNatal, South Africa: the case of Khulekani KhumaloCommittees, Boards, and 78-1980-419831984-81984-1985-91988-91Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute, UKMember, African Studies Association, UKFellow, International African Institute, UKMember, Association of Social Anthropologists, UKFellow, American Anthropological AssociationExecutive Committee, Association of Social Anthropologists, UKMember, Editorial Board, Journal of Southern African StudiesMember, African Studies Association, USAMember, Editorial Board, Annual Review of AnthropologyMember, Fulbright-Hayes panel (Africa)Consulting Editor, AfricaMember, Association of Political and Legal AnthropologyMember, Editorial Board, American EthnologistMember, Editorial Board, Law and Social Inquiry15

2000-620002000-Member, Editorial Board, International African Library, InternationalAfrican InstituteMember, Editorial Board, Wilder House Series in Politics, History andCultureMember, Editorial Board, Law and Society ReviewMember, Board of University Publications, University of Chicago PressEditor [with P. Bourdieu and M. Bloch], Critical Essays in Anthropology,Westview PressMember, Committee on Contributions of Behavioral and Social Sciencesto the Prevention of Nuclear War, National Research Council [laterrenamed Committee on International Cooperation and Conf lict]Member, Executive Board, Association of Political and Legal AnthropologyMember, Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, University ofNorth CarolinaMember, Editorial Board, ManMember, Editorial Board, Cultural AnthropologyMember, Editorial Board, Actes de la recherche en science socialesMember, Editorial Board, Cahiers d'etudes africainesChair, Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, Cornell UniversityChair, Board of University Publications, University of Chicago PressMember, Committee on Democracy and States in Transition, NationalResearch Council/National Academy of SciencesMember, Advisory Committee, Alexander Meikeljohn Institute for LegalStudies, Amherst CollegeMember, Review Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,Carleton CollegePresident-Elect, Association of Political and Legal AnthropologyPresident, Association of Political and Legal AnthropologyAssociate Editor, Law and Social InquiryChair, Board of University Publications, University of Chicago PressEditorial Associate, Journal of Anthropological ResearchMember, Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, University ofNew MexicoMember, Editorial Board, American EthnologistMember, Editorial Advisory Board, Hagar: International Social ScienceReviewMember, Review Committee, Department of Social Anthropology,University of Cape TownMember, Committee on Conflict and Reconstruction in MultiethnicSocieties/National Research CouncilMember, College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs Program,SSHRC CanadaMember, Executive Board, Society for Comparative Research, YaleUniversity16

021-Member, Editorial Board, Critical InquiryMember, Review Committee, Department of Anthropology, University ofPretoria (South Africa)Co-founder and Member of Executive Board of the Chicago Center forContemporary TheoryMember, Steering Committee for Franke Humanities Institute (Universityof Chicago) project on New Perspectives on the Disciplines: ComparativeStudies in Higher Education, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationParticipant, National Science Foundation W orkshop on InterdisciplinaryStandards for Systematic Qualitative ResearchMember, Editorial Board, Annual Review of Law and Social ScienceMembe

2004-20 Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town 2004-2012 Faculty Fellow and co-founder, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory 2005 Visiting Professor, University of Basel 2006 Fulbright Senior Specialist, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, Hebrew University, Ben-Gurion University .