Camille Owens
History of childhood; critical race studies; black feminist thought; disability studies; theater and performance studies; history of science; cultural history; critiques of humanism; 19th- and 20th- century U.S. history
B.A. summa cum laude, History and Literature and the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard College, 2013
Ph. D. 2020 (African American Studies/ American Studies), Yale University
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Camille Owens is a PhD candidate in African American Studies and American Studies. She received a BA in History and Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Harvard in 2013. Her areas of research include nineteenth-century racial science, performances of blackness and disability, and the history of childhood. Her dissertation, ‘Blackness and the Human Child: Race, Prodigy, and the Logic of American Childhood,’ traces a genealogy of black prodigy performances from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, examining scientific and popular intersections of race and child-development as measures of the Human.
Department:
FASAAS African American Studies Dept