In 2016, Camille Creyghton obtained the doctorate at the University of Amsterdam with the thesis La survivance de Michelet. Historiographie et politique en France depuis 1870, which was awarded the ‘Prix de thèse de l’Association internationale La Maison d’Auguste Comte’. After that, she stayed three months at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin with a grant of the Dutch Network of Women Professors and was she a Junior Research Fellow at the Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences. In the winter of 2018, she stayed as a Visiting Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz. Subsequently, she received an NWO Dutch Research Council Rubicon grant for a two-year stay at the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought of Queen Mary, University of London.

She studied history and philosophy at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. At the University of Amsterdam, she lectured on art history and cultural history from the Renaissance till the present, modern cultural theory and cultural criticism, the history of philosophy and nationalism.