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After completing my Ph.D. at Yale University in 2008, I joined the George Washington University faculty in fall 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Here I teach courses on Nationalism, European Integration, Nation-Building in the Balkans, and Qualitative Research Methods. For 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 academic years, I was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. My book,The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities (Cambridge University Press), identifies the conditions in which the ruling political elites of a state target non-core groups with assimilationist policies instead of granting them minority rights or excluding them from the state. The theory is tested against a variety of alternative explanations on multiple levels of analysis: a dataset of nation-building policies towards all politically relevant non-core groups in the Balkans after WWI, archival evidence on case studies focusing on the treatment of a few non-core groups over time, and a microlevel subnational study of a religiously, culturally, and linguistically heterogeneous province. I am currently working on a second book project--tentatively entitled The Politics of Ethnic Return Migration-- which focuses on state policies developed either to attract and/or to incorporate people returning to their country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship. My recent publications include an article on China's policies toward ethnic groups forthcoming in Security Studies (with Enze Han), an edited volume chapter on ethnic return migration policy and the right to freedom of movement, an article on third-party state-building in occupied territories in Ethnopolitics (with Keith Darden), and an article on Greece in the Political Data Yearbook of the European Journal of Political Research (with G.Th. Mavrogordatos). |
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