Miranda Spieler is a historian and author specializing in French history, legal studies, and slavery in the early modern and revolutionary eras. Her 2025 book, *Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories* (Harvard University Press), examines the overlooked presence and experiences of enslaved people in eighteenth-century Paris, uncovering the legal, social, and human dimensions of slavery within metropolitan France. Spieler’s research combines meticulous archival work with interpretive depth, contributing to broader understandings of freedom, law, and empire. She is also known for her earlier scholarship on governance, colonialism, and the intersections of race and justice in the French Atlantic world.