Fara Dabhoiwala teaches at Princeton, and writes about the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the English-speaking world, from the middle ages to the present. He previously taught at Oxford, where he is now a life fellow of All Souls College and of Exeter College.
He has made radio and TV for the BBC and other channels, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Shanghai Review of Books, and many other places.
His next book What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea will be published in 2025 by Penguin Random House and Harvard University Press. He is also writing the first-ever biography of the 18th-century Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690–1762), based on newly discovered sources. He is the author of The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, which has been translated into several languages and widely reviewed.
