Harris Mylonas

Harris Mylonas (Greek: Χάρης Μυλωνάς) is a Greek American political scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the editor-in-chief for Nationalities Papers, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press.

Mylonas has contributed to the ideas of nationalism, nation-building, state-building, fifth column politics and multilateralism through different publications and articles. Mylonas has also contributed to the analysis of the Greek government-debt crisis.

He is the author of The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities, 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 has co-authored Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities and has co-edited Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns as well as The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics. He is currently working on another book project, Diaspora Management Logics.

Beyond academia, Mylonas co-produces the podcast American Constitutive Stories. His documentary Searching for Andreas: Political Leadership in Times of Crisis (2018), 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. His recent TEDx talk Nation-building: Past, Present, Future summarizes his perspective on nationalism and nation-building through his family history. His commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, CNN.com, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, and other media outlets. He has also been featured on BBC, CNN, Voice of America, and CBC Radio, among others.