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Harris Mylonas (PhD Yale; MA Chicago; BA Athens) is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University and the editor-in-chief for Nationalities Papers. Mylonas’ work has contributed to the ideas of nationalism, nation-building, state-building, fifth column politics and multilateralism through different publications. He is the author of The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities (Cambridge University Press, 2012)—winner of the European Studies Book Award and the Katzenstein Book Prize—and co-author of Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities (Cambridge University Press, 2023; w/ Maya Tudor). He has co-edited two volumes, Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns (Oxford University Press, 2022; w/ Scott Radnitz) and The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics (Routledge, 2022; w/ Alexandra Délano Alonso). He is also co-producing a podcast, together with Andrew Thompson, entitled American Constitutive Stories—a space where Americans from different walks of life can share their understanding of their national identity. In 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 he was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He served as Associate Dean for Research at the Elliott School of International Affairs (2017-2018). He is a member of the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, an academic association dedicated to the understanding of ethnicity and nationalism with a geographic focus in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, and Eurasia.