Mira Siegelberg completed her PhD in International History at Harvard University in May 2014 and holds a B.A in History and Human Rights from Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include the history of  international society, modern international relations, international law, human rights, and ideas of international order. Her dissertation “The Question of Questions: The Problem of Statelessness in International History 1921-1961” examines the evolution of the concept of statelessness and its impact on ideas and practices of rights, sovereignty, and international law. It draws on a variety of archival and textual sources to illuminate a body of legal and political thought on statelessness, as well as to recover the experiences and self-understanding of the stateless themselves. Her book manuscript, based in part on the dissertation, will provide a history of statelessness from World War I to the present day. She has published articles in Modern Intellectual History, the Journal of Genocide Research, and History Workshop Journal. At Harvard, she taught in the Social Studies and History and Literature concentrations. During the 2014-2015 academic year at Princeton, she will teach a course on the history of human rights, and will lecture in the second half of the “Approaches to Western Culture” sequence.