Laura Robson
- Elihu Professor of Global Affairs and History
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Office location
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46 Hillhouse Avenue
About
Laura Robson is a scholar of international and Middle Eastern history, with a special interest in questions of refugeedom, forced migration, and statelessness. She has published extensively on the topics of refugee and minority rights, forced migration, ethnic cleansing, and the emergence of international legal regimes around resettlement and asylum.
Robson has written several books, most recently The League of Nations (with Joseph Maiolo; Cambridge, 2025), a reconsideration of the meaning and import of this first experiment in formal internationalism. With Jennifer Dueck, she is the co-founder and co-editor of StatelessHistories.org, a digital humanities project exploring the varied and multifaceted experience of statelessness in the modern era.
Robson’s current research includes one project documenting the active production and deliberate maintenance of various forms of statelessness across the globe during the long twentieth century, and another on Palestine’s emergence as a laboratory for the development of new and highly interventionist forms of colonial and postcolonial internationalism.
Education
- PhD in History, Yale University, 2009
- Additional degrees from Tulane University, the Royal Academy of Music, and Oxford University.