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Laura Robson is a Professor of History and Jackson School at Yale University's Department of History. Her research focuses on international and Middle Eastern history, particularly refugeedom, forced migration, and statelessness. She holds a PhD from Yale University alongside degrees from Tulane University, the Royal Academy of Music, and Oxford University.
Her research explores refugee labor policies, statelessness across the Middle East and North Africa, and the intersection of colonialism with internationalism in Palestine. Current projects include documenting statelessness in the long 20th century and studying Palestine as a site for colonial/postcolonial internationalist experiments.
Robson is a co-founder of StatelessHistories.org, a digital humanities project examining modern statelessness experiences. She has held a Wilson Center Fellowship and contributed to edited volumes such as Minorities and the Modern Arab World (2016).
- Key Works:
- Human Capital (2023) on refugee labor schemes
- Politics of Mass Violence (2020) on Middle East state violence
- States of Separation (2017) on partition and transfer policies
Her academic contributions bridge historical analysis with contemporary humanitarian issues, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to displacement and state formation dynamics.
