Fara Dabhoiwala teaches at Princeton, and writes about social, cultural, and intellectual history 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 appears in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The Shanghai Review of Books, among other places.
His new book What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea (2025) is published by Harvard University Press in North America and by Penguin Random House in the rest of the world. He is now writing the first-ever biography of the 18th-century Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690–1762), based on newly discovered sources. He is also the author of The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, which has been translated into several languages and widely reviewed.
