Dr. Chris Bannister is visiting Pitt as a Summer Research Scholar to conduct research using the Barbara Sloan European Union Document Collection on the UK's application for membership in the EC over the period 1968 to 1973. He received a master’s and doctorate in History and Civilization from the European University Institute. He also has a BA and a Master of Letters in History from Newcastle University. He served as a Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester from 2017 to 2019. Since 2019 he has been the EU Research Coordinator in the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) of the government of the United Kingdom, where he oversees numerous projects looking at the contemporary European Union and its relationship with the UK.