Background
Elisa Camiscioli writes about immigration to and from France, trafficking and illicit migration, and race and sexual politics in modern France and its empire. She is the author of Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations (Cambridge University Press, 2024), a transnational history of immigration, women, sexuality and France. Her first book, Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century (Duke University Press, 2009), explored the centrality of empire, corporeality, racialization and intimacy to French citizenship and gender identities. Both projects were supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Camiscioli is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She offers classes on race and racism in Europe, human trafficking in history, intimate labor, and global migrations. She is passionate about international collaboration, study abroad and cross-cultural exchange. Graduate and undergraduate students interested in applying to the Fulbright US Student Program should contact her directly.
Education
- PhD, MA, University of Chicago
- BA, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
- Modern France
- Immigration
- Gender History
- Sexual Labor
