Gerasimos Tsourapas

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] 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

Professsor
Born1982
TitleProfessor of International Relations, University of Glasgow
Academic background
Alma materYale University

London School of Economics and Political Science

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical Science
Main interestsmigration diplomacy, 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.[3] 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,[4] a 2022 Small Group Project grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation,[5] and a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award in 2018.[6]

As a PhD student, Tsourapas' work on the politics of migration in Egypt was recognized with awards by the Middle East Studies Association,[7] as well as the American Political Science Association.[8] In 2016, he was awarded the Martin O. Heisler Award by the International Studies Association for research on migration interdependence.[9]

Academic Career

Tsourapas received an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science at Yale University (2006), where he was part of the Yale Dramatic Association, and compiled the Association's history as its archivist in 2004.[10] Tsourapas also received an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2007). He completed his PhD in Politics at SOAS, University of London(2016). In 2019–20, Tsourapas served as a Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University.[11] He joined the faculty of the School of Social & Political Science, University of Glasgow in 2021.

References
  1. "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Social & Political Sciences - Our Staff - Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. "ENMISA Governance and Leadership". www.isanet.org. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  3. "ENMISA Distinguished Book Award". www.isanet.org. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  4. "ERC grant competitions 2021: Final lists of researchers offered funding". ERC. 2023-09-05. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  5. "Refugees and Diplomacy in Power Politics". Independent Social Research Foundation. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  6. "BA Rising Star Engagement Awards 2018". The British Academy. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  7. "Middle East Studies Association - MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize - Gerasimos Tsourapas". Middle East Studies Association. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  8. "2016 APSA Organized Section Awards Presented". PS: Political Science & Politics. 49 (4): 942–960. 2016.
  9. "Martin O. Heisler Award [ENMISA]". www.isanet.org. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  10. "Our History | Yale Dramatic Association". yaledramat.org. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  11. "Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University | Gerasimos…". Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
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