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HARRIS
MYLONAS (Ph.D.
Yale University, 2008)
I
am a political scientist interested in the processes of nation- and
state-building, the politicization of cultural differences, immigrant
and refugee incorporation policies, and political development.
I
joined the George Washington University faculty in fall 2009 as an
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. I
teach courses on Nationalism, European Integration, Nation-Building
in the Balkans, and Qualitative Research Methods. For
2008-2009 I was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for
International and Area Studies, where I will return to complete my
second year in 2011-2012.
My forthcomingbook,The Politics of Nation-Building: The
Making of 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.
My
recent publications include a forthcoming article on third-party
nation-building in occupied territories in Ethnopolitics (with Keith Darden), a
chapter on nation-building in the Western Macedonia in the edited volume Rethinking
Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict (BCSIA
International Security Series, MIT Press), an article on electoral
competition in Sub-Saharan Africa elections in Comparative Political
Studies (with Nasos Roussias), and a chapter on Greek repatriation
policies in Immigrants and Minorities: Discourse and Policies
(Vivliorama/KEMO, with Elpida Vogli). Opinion pieces of mine on
international affairs have appeared in Los Angeles Times, Foreign
Policy, CNN.com, Guardian, Newsweek Japan, Hurriyet Daily News and
Economic Review, and The Age, among others.
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