Camille Robcis
Assistant Professor
Office: 364 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-5724
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: car27@cornell.edu
Office Hours: On Leave
Research and Teaching Interests
My research focuses on three broad issues: the relationships among intellectuals, ideas, and politics; the historical construction of norms; and the articulation of universalism and difference in the context of modern France. I am currently revising a book manuscript, entitled The Politics of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and Family Law in Twentieth-Century France, which examines how French policy makers have called upon structuralist anthropology and psychoanalysis (specifically, the works of Claude Levi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan) to reassert the centrality of sexual difference as the foundation for all social and psychic organization. I am also beginning a new project called The Return of Republicanism, about French intellectual life in 1980s. I have taught courses on modern French history, intellectual history, historiography, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis, and European social and political thought.
Courses
| Fall 2009: | On Leave | |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2010: | 2330 |
Origins of the Social |
6010 |
European History Colloquium |
Education
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2007
B.A. Brown University, 1999
Recent Publications and Awards
Publications
“How the Symbolic Became French: Kinship and Republicanism in the PACS Debates” in Discourse 26.3 (Fall 2004):110-135 (Special Issue: “The Problem of Marriage in the New Century”).
“Feminisme radical et politique non gouvernementale” Vacarme, Numero 34, Hiver 2006.
Awards and Fellowships
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, 2007-2008
Messenger-Chalmers Dissertation Prize and Guilford Essay Dissertation Prize, 2007
Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship, The Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2004-2005
John B. and Theta H. Wolf Travel Fellowship, Society for French Historical Studies, 2004
International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2003-2004
Luigi Einaudi Fellowship, Institute for European Studies, 2003-2004