Biography:Amia Srinivasan
Amia Srinivasan | |
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| Born | 20 December 1984 Bahrain |
| 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 Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degrees as a Rhodes Scholar at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.[7] Her BPhil 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]
In 2023, Srinivasan ranked number forty-eight in the New Statesman’s Left Power List 2023 of influential British political figures.[18]
Bibliography
- "The sex wars : feminism and its fault lines". The New Yorker 97 (28): 20–26. September 13, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/who-lost-the-sex-wars.[19]
References
- ↑ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/prof-amia-srinivasan/.
- ↑ 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)". https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014093275.html.
- ↑ Derbyshire, Jonathan (2020-01-25). "Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right". https://www.ft.com/content/232ba980-3caa-11ea-b232-000f4477fbca.
- ↑ Tsjeng, Zing (2021-07-25). "Philosopher Amia Srinivasan Will Radically Change The Way You See Feminism, The #MeToo Movement – And Sex" (in en-GB). https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/amia-srinivasan.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cooke, Rachel (2021-08-08). "Amia Srinivasan: 'Sex as a subject isn't weird. It's very, very serious'" (in en). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/08/amia-srinivasan-the-right-to-sex-interview.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Curriculum Vitae: Amia Srinivasan". https://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp1468/Welcome_files/Srinivasan%20CV%202.pdf.
- ↑ "Amia Srinivasan Profile" (in en). http://rhodesproject.com/amia-srinivasan-profile.
- ↑ 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". https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/295.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Professor Amia Srinivasan". University of Oxford. https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-amia-srinivasan.
- ↑ "At the Depths of Believing" (in en). 2018-07-26. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/research/depths-of-believing.
- ↑ "Visiting Fellows". http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/nyip/visiting-fellows.html.
- ↑ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/prof-amia-srinivasan/.
- ↑ "Amia Srinivasan to be next Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford". https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2019/07/amia-srinivasan-to-be-next-chichele-professor-of-social-political-theory-at-oxford.html.
- ↑ "Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers | Mind | Oxford Academic". https://academic.oup.com/mind/pages/Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers.
- ↑ "Amia Srinivasan · LRB". https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/amia-srinivasan.
- ↑ Szalai, Jennifer (21 September 2021). "'The Right to Sex' Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/books/review-right-to-sex-amia-srinivasan.html.
- ↑ Statesman, New (2023-05-17). "The New Statesman's left power list" (in en-US). https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2023/05/the-new-statesmans-left-power-list.
- ↑ Online version is titled "Who lost the sex wars?".
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