James J. Fox

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.[1] 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[2] and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[3]

He has conducted fieldwork in Java, Roti, and East Timor.[4]

He has also been an administrator at Australian National University at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.[5]

He is currently Professorial fellow in the ANU Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program (RMAP).[6]

  1. ^ "Prof. James J. Fox - ANU HistoryNet - ANU". Archived from the original on 25 March 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  2. ^ "James Fox". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Academy Fellow – Professor James Fox FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  4. ^ Fox, James J., 1940-; Soares, Dionisio Babo (2000), Out of the ashes : destruction and reconstruction of East Timor, Crawford House ; London : C. Hurst & Co, ISBN 978-1-85065-554-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Fox, James J; Mackie, J. A. C. (2005), Jim Fox interviewed by Jamie Mackie, retrieved 18 January 2017
  6. ^ "- R. G. Menzies Scholarships to Harvard 1968—2010 - ANU".