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Full-time Faculty
Harris Mylonas
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Monroe 406
2115 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Phone: (202) 994-1466
Fax: (202) 994-7743
E-mail: mylonas@gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise:
Nation-building in the Balkans, European integration, comparative politics, international relations
Background:
Harris Mylonas joined the Elliott School of International Affairs in Fall 2009 as Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2008, and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Athens, Greece. For the 2008-09 academic year, he was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies to work on turning his dissertation into a book. He will return to Harvard University in 2011-2012 for the second year of his research fellowship.
Professor Mylonas' manuscript, entitled "Making Nations: The International Politics of Assimilation, Accommodation, and Exclusion," identifies the conditions in which the ruling political elites of a state target minorities 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 non-core groups in Southeastern Europe after WWI, archival evidence on case studies focusing on the treatment of a few non-core groups over time, and a micro level sub-national study of a religiously, culturally, and linguistically heterogeneous province.
Professor Mylonas has also published articles in academic journals as well as opinion pieces in the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Baltimore Sun, Newsweek Japan, Turkish Daily News, The Age, and Brisbane Times. He has published on electoral competition in Sub-Saharan Africa elections in Comparative Political Studies (with Nasos Roussias) and has a chapter entitled "Assimilation and its Alternatives: Caveats in the Study of Nation-Building Policies" in the forthcoming volume, Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict (BCSIA International Security Series, MIT Press).
Courses Taught:
Psc 190 Nationalism
Psc 289 Nation Building in the Balkans
Last update: 7/29/2009