Amia Srinivasan
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Amia Srinivasan (born 1984) is a philosopher. 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. 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.[6] She completed her DPhil in 2014 with a thesis titled The Fragile Estate: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy.[7]
Academic career[]
In 2009 she was elected as a prize fellow at All Souls College.[8] In 2015 she was appointed as a lecturer in philosophy at UCL. In 2018 she was appointed as a tutorial fellow in philosophy at St John's College.[9] In 2016 she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the project "At the Depths of Believing".[10] She has held visiting fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University, and New York University.[11] In 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.[12]
She is an associate editor of the philosophy journal Mind[13] and a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.[14]
References[]
- ^ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014093275.html
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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 (http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text 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.
- ^ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
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