Camilla Boisen
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Academic Planning; Senior Lecturer of Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA History, University of Copenhagen; MA History, University of Copenhagen; MsEcon Political Theory, Cardiff University; PhD Political Theory, Cardiff University
Research Areas: Intellectual history of empire and Political Theory
Camilla Boisen is a Senior Lecturer of Writing at New York University Abu Dhabi. Previously, Camilla was a research fellow at the National History Museum, Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark. In South Africa, she held postdoctoral research fellowships in political theory at the University of Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand. She has published articles in, among others, Journal of Genocide Research, History of European Ideas, the Journal of International Political Theory, Modern Intellectual History and Grotiana. She is co-editor of Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought: perspectives on Finding a Fair Share (Routledge, 2016) and the co-author of Merit, Justice, and the Political Theory of Academic Knowledge Production (Palgrave, 2024) Camilla has taught courses in political theory and the history of political thought in the UK, Denmark, and South Africa. She is the incoming senior editor of Grotiana, (Grotius Foundation).
Camilla's main area of research is the intellectual history of empire and political theory in relation to the development of ideas of rights and trusteeship and their influence on contemporary problems such as war and genocide. She is currently working on producing a research monograph that intends to link political theory and empire in the conceptual history of international relations and brings further understanding to how past and current ideas of legitimation, including genocide, are associated with interventionist policies today.