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Camille Robcis

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Camille Robcis
Alma materBrown University
Cornell University
Occupation(s)Professor
Historian
EmployerColumbia University
Notable workThe Law of Kinship
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship

Camille Robcis 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Camille Robcis". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  2. ^ Datta, Venita. "Camille Robcis. The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France." (2014): 1367-1368.
  3. ^ Windebank, Jan. "The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and the Family in France." (2014): 293-293.
  4. ^ Coffin, Judith G. (2014). "Review of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France". French Politics, Culture & Society. 32 (3): 147–152. ISSN 1537-6370. JSTOR 24517648. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  5. ^ Lanzinger, Margareth (2016-10-01). "Camille Robcis, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France". European History Quarterly. 46 (4): 776–777. doi:10.1177/0265691416658234am. ISSN 0265-6914.
  6. ^ Zaretsky, Eli (2015). "Review of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France". The Journal of Modern History. 87 (2): 452–454. doi:10.1086/681178. ISSN 0022-2801. JSTOR 10.1086/681178. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  7. ^ Cahen, Fabrice (2015). "Camille Robcis, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in Twentieth-Century France, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2013, 320 p., ISBN 978-0-8014-7877-2". Revue d'histoire moderne contemporaine. 4: 182–185. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Robcis, Camille". Department of History - Columbia University. 24 July 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  9. ^ "Camille Robcis | Columbia | French". french.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-11.