Camille Robcis | |
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Born | 1977 |
Alma mater | Brown University Cornell University |
Occupation(s) | Professor Historian |
Employer | Columbia University |
Notable work | The Law of Kinship Disalienation |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Camille Robcis (born 1977) is a scholar of French intellectual history and author. She is a professor of French and history at Columbia University. [1] She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. [1] Her books are The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell University Press, 2013) [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] and Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). The Law of Kinship won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. [1]
Robcis attended Brown University for college, studying in history and modern culture and media. [1] She graduated in 1999. [8] In 2007, [8] she earned a doctorate in history from Cornell University, supervised by Dominick LaCapra. [1] She then taught at Cornell for 10 years before moving to Columbia University. [9]
Robcis is working on a third book, tentatively titled The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation. [1]