Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala (born 1969) is a historian and senior research scholar at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

where he teaches and writes about the social history,

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

, and intellectual history of the

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, from the

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to the present day.

Education

Dabhoiwala was educated in

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, the University of York and the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

where he was awarded a

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degree in 1995; his thesis was on prostitution in

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in the 17th century and 18th century.

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 (Let Exeter Flourish) , old_names = ''Stapeldon Hall'' , named_for = Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter , established = , sister_college = Emmanuel College, Cambridge , rector = Sir Richard Trainor ...

. 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 The social construction of human sexuality and sexual behavior—along with its taboos, regulation, and social and political impact—has had a profound effect on the various cultures of the world since prehistoric times. The study of the his ...

. It was book of the year at ''

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''.

Personal life

Dabhoiwala is a

Parsi Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim conq ...

. He has four children, two with the astrophysicist

Jo Dunkley Joanna Dunkley is a British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She works on the origin of the Universe and the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory and t ...

Publications

Articles

* Fara Dabhoiwala, "Imperial Delusions" (review of

Priya Satia Priya Satia is an American historian of the British Empire and the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, ...

, ''Time's Monster: How History Makes History'', Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2020, 363 pp.;

Mahmood Mamdani Mahmood Mamdani, FBA (born 23 April 1946) is an Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University, Uganda. He was the director of the Makerere Institute o ...

, '' Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities'', Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2020, 401 pp.; and

Adom Getachew Adom Getachew is an Ethiopian-American political scientist. She is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of ''Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self ...

, ''Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination'', Princeton University Press, 2021 271 pp.), ''

The New York Review of Books ''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...

'', vol. LXVIII, no. 11 (1 July 2021), pp. 59–62.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dabhoiwala, Faramerz Noshir 21st-century American historians 1969 births Living people American people of Parsi descent American Zoroastrians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Alumni of the University of York Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Oxford Princeton University faculty Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers Historians of sexuality