Faramerz Dabhoiwala Explained
| Fara Dabhoiwala |
| Birth Name: | Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala |
| Education: | University of York (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis Title: | Prostitution and police in London, c. 1660 - c. 1760 |
| Thesis Url: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319273 |
| Thesis Year: | 1995 |
| Notable Works: | The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution |
| Spouse: | Jo Dunkley[1] |
| Children: | 4 |
Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala (born 1969) 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.[2] [3]
Education
Dabhoiwala was educated in Amsterdam, the University of York[4] [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.[1]
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, , Princeton University Press, 2021 [?], 271 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVIII, no. 11 (1 July 2021), pp. 59–62.
Notes and References
- Web site: This Revolution Was British, Fired by Libidos. 2012-02-29. Jennifer. Schussler. The New York Times. New York, New York. https://web.archive.org/web/20131101115448/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramerz-dabhoiwala-of-origins-of-sex-at-museum-of-sex.html. 2013-11-01.
- Web site: Home Page. Fara Dabhoiwala.
- Web site: Fara Dabhoiwala - Department of History. history.princeton.edu.
- Web site: Professor Faramerz Dabhoiwala : Emeritus Fellow in History. exeter.ox.ac.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20180113064445/https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-faramerz-dabhoiwala/. 2018-01-13.
- Web site: About. Fara Dabhoiwala.
- DPhil. University of Oxford. Prostitution and police in London, c. 1660 - c. 1760. Faramerz Noshir. Dabhoiwala. 1995. . bodleian.ox.ac.uk. 53218943.
- Dabhoiwala. Faramerz. The Construction of Honour, Reputation and Status in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 6. 1996. 201–213. 0080-4401. 10.2307/3679236. 3679236. 163113380 .
- Web site: Germaine Greer takes issue with the claim that modern sex began in the late 17th century . theguardian.com. Germaine. Greer. 2012. Germaine Greer.
- Reay. Barry. Faramerz Dabhoiwala. The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution. The American Historical Review. 118. 4. 2013. 1249–1250. 0002-8762. 10.1093/ahr/118.4.1249.
- Book: Dabhoiwala, Faramerz. The origins of sex : a history of the first sexual revolution. 2012. Oxford University Press. 9780199892419. New York. 768168269.
- News: Page turners Books of the Year. The Economist. 8 December 2012. en.
- Web site: Eye on England 12-02-2012.
