Amia Srinivasan

Amia Srinivasan
Born (1984-12-20) 20 December 1984 (age 40)
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

Amia Srinivasan (born 20 December 1984) is a philosopher and author 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 January 2020, she took up the appointment of Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford.[14]

In 2023, Srinivasan ranked number forty-eight in the New Statesman’s Left Power List 2023 of influential British political figures.[15]

Writing

Srinivasan was an associate editor both for the philosophy journal Mind from 2015 to 2021[16] and The Journal of Political Philosophy in 2023.[17]

Srinivasan is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.[18]

In 2021, Srinivasan published a collection of essays in a book entitled The Right to Sex.[19]

Works

  • The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021) ISBN 9781526612533

Articles

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. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "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. ^ Statesman, New (17 May 2023). "The New Statesman's left power list". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  16. ^ "Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers | Mind | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  17. ^ "Amia Srinivasan - Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  18. ^ "Amia Srinivasan · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  19. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (21 September 2021). "'The Right to Sex' Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  20. ^ Online version is titled "Who lost the sex wars?".
Academic offices
Vacant
Title last held by
Jeremy Waldron 		Chichele Professor of
Social and Political Theory
2020–present 		Incumbent