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Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala (born 1969)[1] is a historian and senior research scholar at Princeton University where he teaches and writes about the social history, cultural history, and intellectual history of the English-speaking world, from the Middle Ages to the present day.[3][4]
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Fara Dabhoiwala | |
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| Born | Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala 1969 (age 54–55)[1] |
| Spouse | Jo Dunkley[2] |
| Children | 4 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of York (BA) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis | Prostitution and police in London, c. 1660 - c. 1760 (1995) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Princeton University University of Oxford |
| Notable works | The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution |
| Website | dabhoiwala |
Dabhoiwala was educated in Amsterdam, the University of York[1][5] and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995; his thesis was on prostitution in London in the 17th century and 18th century.[6][7]
Before moving to Princeton, he was a member of faculty at the University of Oxford, where he holds life fellowships of All Souls College, Oxford and Exeter College, Oxford.[5]
His 2012 book, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, examines the first sexual revolution and the history of human sexuality.[8][9][10] It was book of the year at The Economist.[11]
Dabhoiwala is a Parsi.[12] He has four children, two with the astrophysicist Jo Dunkley.[2]
Articles
Fara Dabhoiwala, "A Man of Parts and Learning" Fara Dabhoiwala on the portrait of Francis Williams, London Review of Books Vol 46 No 22, 21 November 2024
- Fara Dabhoiwala, "Imperial Delusions" (review of Priya Satia, Time's Monster: How History Makes History, Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2020, 363 pp.; Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2020, 401 pp.; and Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Princeton University Press, 2021 [?], 271 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVIII, no. 11 (1 July 2021), pp. 59–62.
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