Jess Auerbach is currently Associate Professor of Anthropology at North-West University, and from May 2022 will be at the University of Cape Town (both in South Africa). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford and is the author of two books From Water to Wine: becoming middle class in Angola and Archive of Kindness: stories of everyday heroism in the South African pandemic. She can be contacted by email at: jess@jahaj.net.za
