Fara Dabhoiwala
Born
Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala

1969 (age 54–55)[1]
SpouseJo Dunkley[2]
Childrenfour
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of York (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
ThesisProstitution and police in London, c. 1660 - c. 1760 (1995)
Academic work
InstitutionsPrinceton University
University of Oxford
Notable worksThe Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
Websitedabhoiwala.com

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]

Education

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]

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, two with the astrophysicist Jo Dunkley.[2]

Publications

Articles

  • 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.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor Faramerz Dabhoiwala : Emeritus Fellow in History". exeter.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-01-13.
  2. 1 2 Schussler, Jennifer (2012-02-29). "This Revolution Was British, Fired by Libidos". The New York Times. New York, New York. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01.
  3. ↑ "Home Page". Fara Dabhoiwala.
  4. ↑ "Fara Dabhoiwala - Department of History". history.princeton.edu.
  5. 1 2 "About". Fara Dabhoiwala.
  6. ↑ Dabhoiwala, Faramerz Noshir (1995). Prostitution and police in London, c. 1660 - c. 1760. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 53218943. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.319273.
  7. ↑ Dabhoiwala, Faramerz (1996). "The Construction of Honour, Reputation and Status in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 6: 201–213. doi:10.2307/3679236. ISSN 0080-4401. JSTOR 3679236. S2CID 163113380.
  8. ↑ Greer, Germaine (2012). "Germaine Greer takes issue with the claim that modern sex began in the late 17th century". theguardian.com.
  9. ↑ Reay, Barry (2013). "Faramerz Dabhoiwala. The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution". The American Historical Review. 118 (4): 1249–1250. doi:10.1093/ahr/118.4.1249. ISSN 0002-8762.
  10. ↑ Dabhoiwala, Faramerz (2012). The origins of sex : a history of the first sexual revolution. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199892419. OCLC 768168269.
  11. ↑ "Page turners Books of the Year". The Economist. 8 December 2012.
  12. ↑ "Eye on England 12-02-2012".
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