Draft:Richard P. Fox

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Richard P. Fox is Professor of Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He also holds a professorial appointment by courtesy in the Department of Anthropology.[1]

He has held research and teaching positions at Williams College, University of Chicago, Harvard University, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Universitas Udayana.[2] Fox has also served as the Chair of the AAS Southeast Asia Council. He is the current President of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, and Chair of the LuceSEA-funded Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative.

Fox earned his PhD from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies in 2002 under the supervision of Mark Hobart and Tadeusz Skorupski, and completed the Habilitation in Ethnologie at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Germany, where he was a member of the Collaborative Research Cluster on Material Text Cultures (SFB 933). His research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright Program, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Trained as an anthropologist and historian of religion, Fox has conducted fieldwork on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java, and archival research in Jakarta, Denpasar and Washington DC. His empirical research as an anthropologist is directed to addressing foundational questions in the philosophy of the human sciences.[3]

Publications[edit]

  • Fox, Richard (2010-12-17). Critical Reflections on Religion and Media in Contemporary Bali. Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-2993-7. Retrieved 2024-02-09.</ref>
  • Fox, Richard. More Than Words. Cornell University Press. Retrieved 2024-02-09.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Our People - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  2. ^ "Bio". berubah.org. 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  3. ^ "Richard Fox - University of Victoria". UVic.ca. Retrieved 2024-02-09.