American historian and anthropologist
James Joseph Fox (born 29 May 1940) is an American anthropologist and historian of Indonesia.
He was educated at Harvard University (AB 1962) and Oxford University in (Social Anthropology)(B Litt. 1965, DPhil. 1968) where he was a Rhodes Scholar. The title of his doctoral thesis was "The Rotinese: A study of the social organisation of an eastern indonesian people"
His long-term position was in the Anthropology Department of the Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies, of which he was Director in 1998-2006. He also taught at various universities including Harvard, Cornell, Duke and Chicago in th4e U.S., and various European Universities including Leiden, Bielefeld and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988 and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
He has conducted fieldwork in Java, Roti, and East Timor.
He has also been an administrator at Australian National University at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
He is currently Professorial fellow in the ANU Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program (RMAP).
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