Harris Mylonas

Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and the editor-in-chief for ''Nationalities Papers'', a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. 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 and the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies. 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''. 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.

Mylonas has contributed to the ideas of nationalism, nation-building, state-building, fifth column politics and multilateralism through different publications and articles. His recent TEDx talk ''Nation-building: Past, Present, Future'' summarizes his perspective on nationalism and nation-building through his family history. Mylonas has also contributed to the analysis of the Greek government-debt crisis. He 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. He also served as the chair of the ''Council for European Studies''’ Historical Study of States and Regimes Research Network from 2019 to 2021. Provided by Wikipedia