Minorities Treaties and Mandatory Regimes: The Racialization of Sovereignty after 1919

Laura Robson is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University. She has written or edited five books, most recently The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2020), a history of the relationship between violence and the state in the twentieth-century Eastern Mediterranean, and Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism (with Arie Dubnov; Stanford University Press, 2019), a comparative examination of the political “solution” of ethnic partition in the decolonizing world. Her current book project considers the twentieth-century rise of schemes for mass refugee removal and resettlement in the Middle East and beyond.