Mira Siegelberg is a PhD candidate in the Harvard University Department of History and a lecturer in the Social Studies and History and Literature Programs at Harvard. She studies the history of international political and legal thought, human rights, and humanitarianism.
Mira's dissertation, The Question of Questions: An International History of Statelessness 1921-1961, examines the evolution of the concept of statelessness in the twentieth century and how it came to bear upon ideas of human rights, international legal order, and sovereignty in the period after World War II.
Mira holds a B.A from Columbia University in history and human rights, and received her MA from Harvard University in 2009. She was a Graduate Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics in 2011-2012, and is a graduate affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.