Camille Robcis

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Camille Robcis
Alma mater Brown University
Cornell University
Occupation(s)Professor
Historian
Employer Columbia University
Notable workThe Law of Kinship
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Camille Robcis is a scholar of French intellectual history and author. She is an 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]

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