Laura Robson

Laura Robson is the Elihu Professor of Global Affairs and History at Yale. She has written or edited seven books, The League of Nations (with Joseph Maiolo; Cambridge, 2025), a reconsideration of the meaning and import of this first experiment in formal internationalism, and Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work (Verso, 2023), a wide-ranging investigation of the many twentieth century schemes to deploy refugees as labor migrants across the globe.

Robson’s current research includes one project documenting the active production and deliberate maintenance of different 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.

Contact: laura.robson@yale.edu