Gerasimos Tsourapas (born 1982) is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow.[1] He currently serves as the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association[2] and is the Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press).[3] His main areas of research and teaching are the politics of migrants, refugees, and diasporas, with particular expertise on cross-border mobility across the Global South.

Gerasimos Tsourapas
Tsourapas at the Wilson Center in 2023
Born1982 (age 41–42)
TitleEditor-in-Chief, Migration Studies
Academic background
Education
Doctoral advisorLaleh Khalili, Charles R. H. Tripp
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical Science
Main interestsmigration diplomacy, refugees, diasporas, Middle East politics

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 International Studies Association.[4] 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 European Research Council in 2021,[5] a 2022–23 Small Group Project grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation,[6] and a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award in 2018.[7]

As a PhD student, Tsourapas's work on the politics of migration in Egypt was recognized with awards by the Middle East Studies Association,[8] as well as the American Political Science Association.[9] In 2016, he was awarded the Martin O. Heisler Award by the International Studies Association for research on migration interdependence.[10] He has been quoted by The New York Times,[11] The Economist,[12] and Krautreporter.[13]

Education

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Tsourapas received an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from Yale University (2006), where he compiled the history of the Yale Dramatic Association, as the organisation's archivist, in 2004.[14] Tsourapas also received an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2007).[15] He completed his PhD in Politics at SOAS, University of London (2016). His thesis received the American Political Science Association'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, Harvard University.[16] He served as a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2024.[17]

Career

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Tsourapas joined the faculty of the School of Social & Political Science at the University of Glasgow in 2021.[18]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2021). Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-3209-3.[19][20][21]
  • Tsourapas, Gerasimos (2018). The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108630313. ISBN 978-1-108-63031-3.[22][23][24][25]

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ "Professor Gerasimos Tsourapas". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ "ENMISA Governance and Leadership". International Studies Association. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  3. ^ "Editorial Board". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  4. ^ "ENMISA Distinguished Book Award". International Studies Association. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  5. ^ "ERC grant competitions 2021: Final lists of researchers offered funding" (PDF). European Research Council. 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  6. ^ "Small Group Projects". Independent Social Research Foundation. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  7. ^ "BA Rising Star Engagement Awards 2018". The British Academy. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  8. ^ "MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize - Gerasimos Tsourapas". Middle East Studies Association. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  9. ^ "2016 APSA Organized Section Awards Presented". PS: Political Science & Politics. 49 (4): 942–960. 2016.
  10. ^ "Martin O. Heisler Award [ENMISA]". International Studies Association. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  11. ^ Jackson, Lauren (2023-04-05). "Tunisia's Influence in Europe". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  12. ^ "Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad". The Economist. 2021-02-04. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  13. ^ Doran, Benjamin Hindrichs und Aoife (2022-01-07). "Flüchtlinge als Ware sind die neue Normalität". Krautreporter (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  14. ^ "Our History". Yale Dramatic Association. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  15. ^ "Gerasimos Tsourapas". ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ. 2022-04-29. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  16. ^ "Gerasimos Tsourapas". Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Harvard University. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  17. ^ Science, London School of Economics and Political. "Gerasimos Tsourapas". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
  18. ^ "New Politics & International Relations staff". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-21.
  19. ^ Aksel, Damla B. (2023-11-13). "Book Review: Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa. Power, Mobility and the State by Tsourapas Gerasimos". International Migration Review. doi:10.1177/01979183231213001. ISSN 0197-9183.
  20. ^ Finn, Victoria (August 2022). "Tsourapas, Gerasimos. 2021. Migration diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, mobility and the state. Manchester University Press: Manchester. pp. 192". International Migration. 60 (4): 231–233. doi:10.1111/imig.13020. ISSN 0020-7985.
  21. ^ Nazir, Irfan Ahmed (December 2022). "Gerasimos Tsourapas (2021). Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Power, Mobility, and the State . Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. Price: £85.00. 192 pp., ISBN: 978-1-5261-3209-3 (Hardback)". Contemporary Review of the Middle East. 9 (4): 464–466. doi:10.1177/23477989221116446. ISSN 2347-7989.
  22. ^ Awad, Ibrahim (2019). "The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies by Gerasimos Tsourapas (review)". The Middle East Journal. 73 (3): 495–496. ISSN 1940-3461.
  23. ^ Müller-Funk, Lea (2022-10-20). "The politics of migration in modern Egypt: Strategies for regime survival in autocracies The politics of migration in modern Egypt: Strategies for regime survival in autocracies , by Gerasimos Tsourapas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 245 pp., GBP 75.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108475549: by Gerasimos Tsourapas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 245 pp., GBP 75.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781108475549". Mediterranean Politics. 27 (5): 678–680. doi:10.1080/13629395.2020.1840018. ISSN 1362-9395.
  24. ^ Talani, Leila Simona (June 2020). "The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies. By Gerasimos Tsourapas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 262p. $100.00 cloth". Perspectives on Politics. 18 (2): 668–669. doi:10.1017/S1537592720000973. ISSN 1537-5927.
  25. ^ Fábos, Anita H. (2021-02-19). "The politics of migration in modern Egypt: strategies for regime survival in autocracies: by Gerasimos Tsourapas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xviii + 346 pp., £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1108475549". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 44 (3): 480–482. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1787481. ISSN 0141-9870.
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