Gerasimos Tsourapas

Gerasimos Tsourapas (born 1982) is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. He currently serves as the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association and is the Editor-in-Chief of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press). 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. 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, a 2022–23 Small Group Project grant by the Independent Social Research Foundation, and a British Academy 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 Middle East Studies Association, as well as the American Political Science Association. 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 The New York Times, The Economist, and Krautreporter.

Education
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. 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). 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. He served as a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2024.

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