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Fara Dabhoiwala | |
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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 |
Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala (born 1969) [1] is a historian and senior research scholar at Princeton University,New Jersey,United States,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]
Dabhoiwala studied in Amsterdam,Netherlands,and received his bachelor's of degree from the University of York,before attending theUniversity of Oxford,where he received his PhD in 1995. His dissertation was on prostitution in London in the 17th and 18th centuries. [5] [6] [1] [7]
Before moving to Princeton University,he was the Senior Germaine Scholar at Brasenose College,University of Oxford (1992–1994) and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College (1996–1998). He is an Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College,Oxford. [7]
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 named book of the year at The Economist . [11] His second book,What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea was published in 2025. [12] [13]
Dabhoiwala is a Parsi. [14] He has four children,[ citation needed ] two with his partner,astrophysicist Jo Dunkley. She is a professor at Princeton. [2]