Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah | A/Prof
University of Cape Town

Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah is an 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 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 researcher with the South African National Research Foundation ("future international leader") and a member of the South African Young Academy of Sciences. She is an Iso Lomso Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University and an MSc from Oxford and has published extensively in both the scholarly and public domain.