Harris Mylonas


Harris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of ', 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 is currently working on another book project, Diaspora Management Logics. His documentary ', 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 nation-building, state-building, and multilateralism through different publications and articles. He 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 is also the editor-in-chief for Nationalities Papers, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.

Academic career

Mylonas completed his undergraduate degree at The University of Athens, received 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. 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. Mylonas served as Associate Dean for Research in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University during 2017–18.

Selected publications