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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