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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

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.

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Selected publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • 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[edit]

References[edit]

  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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