Stephen J. Silvia

Prof. Stephen J. Silvia is Director of Doctoral Studies at the School of International Service and a Board Member of the American Consortium on EU Studies. He teaches international economics, international trade relations, and comparative politics.

Prof. Silvia's research specializes in comparative labor markets and comparative industrial relations, with a focus on Germany and the European Union. Prof. Silvia also writes about German politics and political parties. He has taught at Yale and Tufts Universities, and has been a resident scholar at Harvard University, The Johns Hopkins University, the Freie Universität Berlin and the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt/Main. Professor Silvia has received numerous grants and awards including the Fulbright Research Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, a Robert Bosch Fellowship, a DaimlerChrysler Fellowship and a Volkswagen Foundation Grant. He has published widely in scholarly journals including Business in the Contemporary World, Comparative Politics, German Politics, German Studies Review, Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, International Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Policy, New German Critique and West European Politics.