Jess
Auerbach
Jahajeeah
Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah is an award winning anthropologist and associate professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. There she directs the MPhil in Inclusive Innovation and teaches ethnography, qualitative research methods, research ethics and thinking with Africa. She has recently set up the Light Lab at the GSB as an interdisciplinary space to explore knowledge infrastructure and knowledge politics, and is currently working on a book on African fibre optic connectivity. Jess is a P-rated (“future leader”) researcher with the South African National Research Foundation and a member of the South African Young Academy of Sciences. She is an Iso Lomso Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and holds numerous other scholarly affiliations. She completed her PhD at Stanford University and her MSc at Oxford.
