Faramerz Dabhoiwala

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]

Fara Dabhoiwala
Born	Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala 1969 (age 55–56)[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.com

Education

Dabhoiwala was educated in Amsterdam, the University of York,^[1][5] and the University of Oxford. There he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995; his thesis was on prostitution in London in the 17th and 18th centuries.^[6][7]

Career

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]

Personal life

Dabhoiwala is a Parsi.^[12] He has four children,^{[citation needed]} two with his partner, astrophysicist Jo Dunkley. She is a professor at Princeton.^[2]

Publications

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.