Dr. Camille Robcis

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Camille Robcis specializes in modern European history with a focus on 19th and 20th century France, exploring issues of gender, sexuality, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. Her teaching and research examine the relationship between texts and contexts across cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions. Before joining Columbia University, she taught at Cornell University for ten years. Robcis is the author of "Law Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, Family in France," published by Cornell University Press, which won the 2013 Berkshire Conference Women Historians Book Prize. Her research delves into how French judges and legislators adapted structuralism to assert the central role of the heterosexual family in political discussions surrounding bioethics, same-sex unions, and family dynamics. Her recent book, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France," maps the intersections of politics and psychiatry and has received the 2024 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Currently, she is working on a book examining the discourse of gender ideology and its implications for contemporary debates on sexual and reproductive rights.

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