Amia Srinivasan
Amia Srinivasan | |
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Born | |
Academic background | |
Education | Yale University (BA) Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil) |
Thesis | The Fragile Estate (2014) |
Doctoral advisor | John Hawthorne Timothy Williamson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philosophy |
Institutions | University College, London St John's College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford |
Amia Srinivasan (born 20 December 1984) is a philosopher noted for her work in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Since January 2020, she has been Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford.[1]
Early life and education
Srinivasan was born on 20 December 1984[2] in Bahrain to Indian parents and later lived in Taiwan, Singapore, New York, and London.[3][4][5] She studied for an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree summa cum laude in 2007.[6] This was followed by postgraduate Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degrees as a Rhodes Scholar at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.[7] Her MPhil was completed in 2009 with a thesis titled "Armchair Philosophy & Experimental Philosophy," supervised by John Hawthorne.[6] She completed her DPhil in 2014 with a thesis titled The Fragile Estate: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy:[8] her doctoral supervisors were John Hawthorne and Timothy Williamson.[6]
Academic career
In 2009, she was elected as a prize fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.[9] In 2015, she was appointed as a lecturer in philosophy at University College London (UCL).[10] In 2016, she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the project "At the Depths of Believing".[11] She has held visiting fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University, and New York University.[12]
In October 2018, Srinivasan joined St John's College, Oxford as a tutorial fellow in philosophy.[13] She was additionally an associate professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford from 2018 to 2019.[10] In September 2019, she was announced as the next Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford: she took up the appointment on 1 January 2020.[14] She is the first woman and the first person of color to occupy this position.[5]
She is an associate editor of the philosophy journal Mind[15] and a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.[16] In 2021, Srinivasan published a collection of essays titled The Right to Sex.[17]
Bibliography
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- The Right to Sex. London: Bloomsbury. 2021.
- "The sex wars : feminism and its fault lines". Annals of Activism. The New Yorker. 97 (28): 20–26. 13 September 2021.[18]
References
- ^ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "Srinivasan, Amia, 1984- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov.
- ^ Derbyshire, Jonathan (25 January 2020). "Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Tsjeng, Zing (25 July 2021). "Philosopher Amia Srinivasan Will Radically Change The Way You See Feminism, The #MeToo Movement – And Sex". British Vogue. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ a b Cooke, Rachel (8 August 2021). "Amia Srinivasan: 'Sex as a subject isn't weird. It's very, very serious'". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
- ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae: Amia Srinivasan" (PDF). University of Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
- ^ "Amia Srinivasan Profile". The Rhodes Project. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ Srinivasan, Amia (2013). The Fragile State: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Professor Amia Srinivasan". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
- ^ "At the Depths of Believing". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Visiting Fellows". as.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ "Amia Srinivasan to be next Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford". Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers | Mind | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Amia Srinivasan · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ Szalai, Jennifer (21 September 2021). "'The Right to Sex' Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ Online version is titled "Who lost the sex wars?".
- 1984 births
- 21st-century American essayists
- 21st-century Indian philosophers
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- Academics of University College London
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- American people of Indian descent
- American Rhodes Scholars
- American women essayists
- Analytic philosophers
- Chichele Professors of Social and Political Theory
- Connecticut Democrats
- Epistemologists
- Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
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