Dr. Fara Dabhoiwala

Biography

Fara Dabhoiwala teaches at Princeton University and writes social, cultural, and intellectual history from the Middle Ages to the present. Previously, she taught at Oxford University, holding a life fellowship at Souls College and Exeter College. Dabhoiwala has participated in radio and television programs for BBC channels, and her writing has appeared in prestigious publications such as the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, London Review of Books, and Shanghai Review of Books. She authored the forthcoming book, 'Free Speech? A History of a Dangerous Idea,' published by Harvard University Press in North America and by Penguin Random House for the rest of the world. Additionally, she is working on the first-ever biography of the 18th-century Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams, using newly discovered sources. Her previous work includes 'The Origins of Sex: A History of the Sexual Revolution,' which has been widely reviewed and translated into several languages.

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