Mira L. Siegelberg received the Gross Prize at Harvard University for the best dissertation in history. She has held the Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Princeton University Society of Fellows and is an assistant professor of History and Law at Queen Mary University of London.
Mira Siegelberg demonstrates that the question of statelessness, now a relatively minor aspect of a larger refugee crisis, in fact lies at the heart of the transformations in legal consciousness that produced the fragile and often ambiguous post-war international rights regime. Statelessness is an important book and a magnificent achievement.--Mark Mazower, author of Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century A book equal parts compelling and sobering, Statelessness lives up to the importance of its topic. Siegelberg writes conceptual history for our twenty-first-century world.--Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, University of California, Berkeley