James M. Redfield (born 1935) is the Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago.
He has made numerous contributions to current scholarship on Homer and Herodotus, probably the most notable of which is his book, Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector (University of Chicago Press, 1975), an anthropological reading of the Iliad with the stated goal of analyzing Hector's role in the work.
Redfield's father, Robert Redfield, was also a University of Chicago professor, teaching anthropology and ethnolinguistics, and serving as Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences from 1934 to 1946.
His maternal grandfather, Robert E. Park, was also a University of Chicago professor, teaching sociology from 1914 to 1933 and playing a leading role in the Chicago School of sociology.
James Redfield is a member of the Department of Classical Languages and Literature and the Committee on Social Thought at Chicago.