Harris Mylonas
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University of Chicago (MA),
Yale University (PhD),
Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Harris Mylonas | |
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Χάρης Μυλωνάς | |
| Born | November 16, 1978 |
| Title | editor-in-chief, Nationalities Papers |
| Academic background | |
| Education | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA), University of Chicago (MA), Yale University (PhD), Harvard University (Postdoctoral Fellow) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Science |
| Institutions | George Washington University, Harvard University, Korea University |
| Main interests | nationalism, nation-building, diasporas, civil wars, migration. |
| Website | harrismylonas |
Harris Mylonas (Greek: Χάρης Μυλωνάς) is a Greek American political scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University,[1] a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[2] and the editor-in-chief for Nationalities Papers, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.[3]
Mylonas has contributed to the ideas of nationalism, nation-building, state-building, fifth column politics and multilateralism through different publications and articles.[4] Mylonas has also contributed to the analysis of the Greek government-debt crisis.[5]
He is the author of The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities, which was awarded the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize in September 2013[6] and the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies.[7] He has co-authored Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities and has co-edited Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns as well as The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics. He is currently working on another book project, Diaspora Management Logics.[8]
Beyond academia, Mylonas co-produces the podcast American Constitutive Stories. His documentary Searching for Andreas: Political Leadership in Times of Crisis (2018), which deals with the deep causes of the recent financial and political crisis in Greece, premiered at the 2018 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and won two awards at the 2019 International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra. His recent TEDx talk Nation-building: Past, Present, Future summarizes his perspective on nationalism and nation-building through his family history. His commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN.com, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, and other media outlets. He has also been featured on BBC, CNN, Voice of America, and CBC Radio, among others.
Mylonas was born in Thessaloniki and graduated from the Anatolia College High school in 1996. He then moved to Athens where he earned his BA in Political Science and Public Administration (2000) and MSc in Political Science and Sociology (2002) from the The University of Athens. He continued his studies in the United States with support from the Fulbright Program earning an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He joined the faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in 2009.[9] He also served as an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 2008–09 and 2011–12 academic years.[10]
Mylonas served as Associate Dean for Research in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University during 2017–18. He has held visiting positions at Korea University in Seoul, the Centre français des études éthiopiennes (CFEE) in Addis Ababa, and the Carlos III–Juan March Institute (IC3JM) in Madrid. He also served as the chair of the Council for European Studies’ Historical Study of States and Regimes Research Network from 2019 to 2021. For the past fifteen years, Mylonas has been a member of the board of directors is a member of the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, an academic association dedicated to the understanding of ethnicity and nationalism with a geographic focus in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and Eurasia.[11]
