James G. Oxley is an Australian–American mathematician, Boyd Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University.
Oxley did his undergraduate studies in Australia,[2] and earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1978, under the supervision of Dominic Welsh.
[3] He joined the Louisiana State University faculty in 1982.
[2] Oxley is the author of the book Matroid Theory (Oxford University Press, 1992).
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.