Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Fara Dabhoiwala
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.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. 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, 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.

References

1. "Professor Faramerz Dabhoiwala : Emeritus Fellow in History". exeter.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-01-13.
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. "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".