Harris Mylonas

Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Filmmaker, Parent, Photographer, Producer, Scientist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

I am a political scientist interested in the processes of state- and nation-building, political development, and diaspora policy. My work contributes to our understanding of states’ management of diversity that may originate from national minorities, immigrants, diasporas, or refugees. I am 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. --- After completing my Ph.D. in political science at Yale University in 2008, I joined the faculty at the department of political science at George Washington University. -- My book, The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 and won The Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for the best first book on International Relations, Comparative Politics, or Political Economy in 2013, the 2014 European Studies Book Award by the Council for European Studies which honors the best first book on any subject in European Studies published within a two-year period. -- I have co-edited two volumes, Enemies Within: Fifth Column Politics in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2022; w/ Scott Radnitz) and The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics (Routledge, 2022; w/ Alexandra Délano Alonso). -- I am currently co-authoring a book with Maya Tudor tentatively entitled Varieties of Nationalism (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

People should be given the conditions to reach their full potential.

"If we want to improve relations between core and non-core groups within the same country, we should focus first on improving relations between countries." @hmylonas #TEDxFoBo22

Diasporas, Greece, Nation-building, Nationalism, The Balkans

I recently gave a TedX talk @tedxfoggybottom where I described the process of nation-building through my family history.

Dancing. Also, most of my colleagues and students don't know that I completed a political documentary entitled, Searching for Andreas: Political Leadership in Times of Crisis. The film 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.