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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, immigrant
and refugee incorporation policies, the
politicization of cultural differences, 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 and 2011-2012
academic years, I was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for
International and Area Studies.
My forthcoming
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 Repatriation-- 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 third-party
nation-building in occupied territories in Ethnopolitics (with Keith Darden),
an article on Greece in the European
Journal of Political Research, 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, the Guardian, and Newsweek Japan among others.
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