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]

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]

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