Gerasimos Tsourapas (born 1982) is a Professor of International Relations at the

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. He currently serves as the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the

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and is the Editor-in-Chief of ''Migration Studies'' (

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). His main areas of research and teaching are the politics of migrants,

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s, and

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s, with particular expertise on cross-border mobility across the

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. Tsourapas is the author of ''The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies'', which was awarded the 2020 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award by the

. His second book was entitled ''Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State.'' He is the recipient of major research grants, including a five-year Starting Grant by the

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in 2021, a 2022–23 Small Group Project grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation, and a

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Rising Star Engagement Award in 2018. As a PhD student, Tsourapas's work on the politics of migration in Egypt was recognized with awards by the

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, as well as the

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. In 2016, he was awarded the Martin O. Heisler Award by the International Studies Association for research on migration interdependence. He has been quoted by ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Krautreporter''.

Education

Tsourapas received an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from

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(2006), where he compiled the history of the Yale Dramatic Association, as the organisation's archivist, in 2004. Tsourapas also received an MSc in International Political Economy from the

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(2007). He completed his PhD in Politics at

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(2016). His thesis received the

's 2016 Best Dissertation Prize on Migration & Citizenship. In 2019–20, Tsourapas served as a Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,

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. He served as a Visiting Professor at the

in 2024.

Career

Tsourapas joined the faculty of the School of Social & Political Science at the

in 2021.

Selected publications

Books

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Articles

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References

External links

Gerasimos Tsourapas – University of Glasgow
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsourapas, Gerasimos 1982 births Academics of the University of Glasgow Greek political scientists Living people Yale College alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of SOAS University of London International relations scholars European Research Council grantees