Harris Mylonas

Harris Mylonas is a political scientist interested in the processes of state- and nation-building, political development, as well as migration and diaspora policies. His work contributes to our understanding of states’ management of diversity that may originate from national minorities, immigrants, diasporas, or refugees. He is particularly interested in the role of decision makers’ perceptions about foreign involvement in their domestic affairs and the impact these perceptions have on the planning and implementation of state policies.

He is the author of The Politics of Nation-Building (Cambridge University Press, 2012), for which he won The Peter Katzenstein Book Prize in 2013 and the European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies in 2014. The book was also awarded an honorable mention by the Rothschild Prize in Nationalities and Ethnic Studies Committee of the Association for the Study of Nationalities in 2014. Mylonas' co-authored book with Maya Tudor, Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. He has also co-edited two volumes, Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns (Oxford University Press, 2022; w/ Scott Radnitz) and "The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics" (Routledge, 2022; w/ Alexandra Délano Alonso).

Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers. He 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 2008-09 and 2011-12 academic years he was an Academy Scholar in residence at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He also served as Associate Dean for Research at the Elliott School of International Affairs (2017-18).