Harris Mylonas

Editor-in-Chief, Nationalities Papers

Harris Mylonas is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and the Director of IERES at the George Washington University and the editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers. Mylonas’ research contributes to our understanding of how states manage diversity that may originate from national minorities, immigrants, diasporas, or refugees. His work emphasizes and explores the role of international security considerations in domestic policymaking. Mylonas received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, his MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and completed his undergraduate degree at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Athens, Greece. In the 2008-09 and 2011-12 academic years, he was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He is the co-author of Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities (Cambridge University Press, 2023; with Maya Tudor) and the author of The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities (Cambridge University Press, 2012), for which he won the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies, as well as the Peter Katzenstein Book Prize in 2013. He has also co-edited The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics (Routledge, 2022) with Alexandra Délano Alonso and Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns (Oxford University Press, 2022) with Scott Radnitz. My research has been published in several academic journals, including the Annual Review of Political Science; Comparative Political Studies; Security Studies; International Political Science Review; Journal of Global Security Studies; Perspectives on Politics; European Journal of Political Research; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Political Science Quarterly; Territory, Politics, Governance; Nations and Nationalism; Social Science Quarterly; Nationalities Papers; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Ethnopolitics; as well as various edited volumes. His documentary film Searching for Andreas: Political Leadership in Times of Crisis, which deals with the deep causes of the recent European financial and political crisis in Greece, premiered at the 20th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, won two awards at the International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra, and was also screened at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC, and the 2021 World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association.