Amia Srinivasan

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]

Amia Srinivasan
Born (1984-12-20) 20 December 1984
Bahrain
Academic background
EducationYale University (BA)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil)
ThesisThe Fragile Estate (2014)
Doctoral advisorJohn Hawthorne
Timothy Williamson
Academic work
DisciplinePhilosophy
InstitutionsUniversity College, London
St John's College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford

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
  • 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
  1. "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. "Curriculum Vitae: Amia Srinivasan" (PDF). University of Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  7. "Amia Srinivasan Profile". The Rhodes Project. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  8. 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.
  9. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  10. "Professor Amia Srinivasan". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
  11. "At the Depths of Believing". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  12. "Visiting Fellows". as.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  13. "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  14. "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.
  15. "Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers | Mind | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  16. "Amia Srinivasan · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  17. Szalai, Jennifer (21 September 2021). "'The Right to Sex' Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  18. Online version is titled "Who lost the sex wars?".
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