Emeritus Professor, State, Society and Governance, College of Asia and the Pacific, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University.
Professor James J. Fox was educated at Harvard (AB ’62) and Oxford (B Litt. ’65, DPhil. ’68) where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is head of the Emeritus Faculty and has been a Professorial Fellow/ Professor, Australian National University (1975-present); he is also a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Professor Fox’s area of primary interest is the anthropology of Indonesia, with special focus on Java and eastern Indonesia, particularly on rural development and resource management; the study of social organisation and symbolic systems; linguistic anthropology; and comparative Austronesian ethnology.
