Dr. James Fox

Biography

Professor James J. Fox educated at Harvard (AB '62), Oxford (B Litt. '65, DPhil. '68) as a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Cornell, Duke, and Chicago, as well as European universities such as Leiden and Bielefeld, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. As a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, Professor Fox's primary research interests lie in Indonesia, with a special focus on Java and eastern Indonesia. His work encompasses comparative issues affecting the entire Asia-Pacific region. He has held several notable positions, including Professorial Fellow at Australian National University since 1975, Jensen Memorial Lecturer at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in 2007, and Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 2006-07. His research has covered topics such as history and anthropology in Indonesia, rural development, resource management, social organization, and linguistic anthropology. Professor Fox has also supervised numerous research students, guiding the study of Austronesian ethnology and the complexities of social structures in Indonesia.

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