Stephen Silvia


Stephen J. Silvia is a Professor at American University's School of International Service and an Affiliate Professor in American University's Economics Department. He teaches international economics, international trade relations, and comparative politics. He is a noted expert on the German economy, in particular, on German labor markets and industrial relations. He has written about comparative industrial relations, European Union economic policy, and comparative economic policy, with an emphasis on Germany and the United States.

Education and career

Stephen J. Silvia was born in Buffalo, NY. He received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1981. In 1990, he obtained his PhD in Political Science from Yale University, where he also served as Acting Professor.
Before coming to American University in 1990, Stephen Silvia served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. In 1993, Silvia was a Fulbright Guest Scholar at Freie Universität Berlin, and in 1994 and 1995 he was the James Bryant Conant Fellow in German and European Studies at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He was a Guest Professor at Universität Kassel in Germany in January 2009 and l'université Montpellier I in France in October 2010. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.
Stephen Silvia served as a Board Member of the American Consortium on European Union Studies, EU Center of Excellence, from 2001 to 2015. In 2015, Stephen Silvia served as president of the District of Columbia Chapter of the Labor Research and Employment Association.
Stephen Silvia served as a Trustee on the American University Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2010. He was Chair of the American University Faculty Senate during the 2008-2009 academic year. He has chaired American University's Committee on Faculty Actions, which is a university-wide rank-and-tenure committee, since 2014. He served as Director of Doctoral Studies at American University's School of International Service from 1999 to 2012, and founding Director of the Masters of International Relations program, which is an online degree, from 2012 to 2014.
Stephen Silvia has received numerous grants including two Fulbright fellowships, a Robert Bosch Fellowship, a DaimlerChrysler Fellowship and a Volkswagen Foundation Grant.
Silvia was married in 1989 to Jennifer Paxton, a history professor, The Teaching Company lecturer, and daughter of folk-singer Tom Paxton.

Notable Awards

SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
TEACHING AWARDS
SERVICE AWARDS