James Joseph Fox (born 29 May 1940) is an American anthropologist and historian of Indonesia.
[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.
[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).