Dr. Lara Silver

Biography

Lara Silver is a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, where she has been teaching since September 2007. Her teaching encompasses Canadian-American relations, international relations in the twentieth century, American history, and postwar British history. Lara has held lecturer positions at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK and the University of Victoria. Her ongoing research interests focus on the North Atlantic Triangle, particularly examining Canada's diplomatic relations with Britain and the United States during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in European International Relations from the University of Malta, followed by a Master of Arts in European Studies from the University of British Columbia, which included a scholarship at the North American-European Diplomatic Academy in Austria. Lara earned her Ph.D. in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent, UK. Her research interests include Canadian diplomatic history, Canada-U.S. relations, British politics, and American history, which reflect her extensive scholarly work published in various journals and edited volumes.

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