Jess Auerbach
Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Academic |
| Spouse | Aarvin Jahajeeah |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town, University of Oxford and Stanford University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Sub-discipline | Anthropologist |
| Institutions | Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town |
Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah (née Auerbach) is a South African social scientist, anthropologist and academic at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town.[1][2]
Education and career
Auerbach holds BSocSci, Anthropology and Literature from University of Cape Town, Msc, Forced Migration from the University of Oxford, and Doctorate, Anthropology from Stanford University.[3][4]
She directs the University of Cape Town's MPhil in Inclusive Innovation and teaches innovation, business in Africa, ethnography, qualitative research methods and storytelling for impact.[5][6]
After her doctorate she was founding faculty at the African Leadership University in Mauritius and Rwanda, and consulted globally on innovation in higher education. She has published extensively, including two books: From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola (University of Toronto Press and ABA Publishing Brazil)[7][8][9][10] and Archive of Kindness: the other side of the South African pandemic (BK Publishing).[11][12]
She is known for her scholarship on decoloniality and she speaks regularly on the topic of knowledge transformation, personal leadership and storytelling, as well as serving on multiple advisory boards for universities, scholarship committees and international grant organisations.[13][14]
She has numerous research affiliations including with the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study where she is an Iso Lomso Fellow.[15][16]
She holds a "P" rating (future leader) with the National Research Foundation of South Africa, gives regular keynotes on questions of technology and educational transformation, and regularly contributes to both local and international media.[17]
References
- ISBN 978-1-80511-127-6.
- ^ "Jess Auerbach Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Profile". UCT Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Jess Auerbach - MEDICAL AND HEALTH HUMANITIES AFRICA [MHHA]". medicalandhealthhumanities.africa. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Adapting campus spaces fit for new ways of learning - Women in Science Africa". 23 September 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah". Roseway Waldorf School. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "University of Toronto Press - From Water to Wine". University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ISBN 978-1-80511-127-6.
- ^ "Gastrow on Auerbach, 'From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola' | H-Net". networks.h-net.org.
- ^ Ribeiro, Ana Beatriz (1 January 2020). "Review of From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola (Jess Auerbach)". Journal of Development Studies (JEP) – via www.academia.edu.
- ^ "Book Launch: Archive of Kindness". nwu.ac.za.
- ^ "Archive of Kindness". shop.briza.co.za. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Jess Auerbach | STS Infrastructures". stsinfrastructures.org. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Jess Auerbach". Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Future of Universities – Culture Club". cultureclub.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ "Mauritius Archives". African Arguments. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ^ Cilliers, Susan. "'Argief van goedheid' keersy van pandemie". Netwerk24 (in Afrikaans). Retrieved 1 February 2024.
External links
- Jess Auerbach publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Publications by Jess Auerbach at ResearchGate
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