Senior Research Scholar, Department of History, Princeton University

Fara Dabhoiwala is a historian of Britain and the English-speaking world since the middle ages. Hisnext book What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea will be published in 2025. 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.

Fara has previously published on various other topics, and especially on the history of changing sexual attitudes and behavior. His book The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution tells the story of the Enlightenment origins of modern western attitudes to sex. It drew on pictorial, fictional, judicial, philosophical, and other kinds of evidence, and tried to connect together social, intellectual, literary, legal, political, and other kinds of history.

In 2024-25, Fara is a visiting fellow at St John's College, Cambridge.