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Camille Robcis

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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]

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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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