He holds a PhD from Princeton University, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from Balliol College at Oxford. Amar’s research is currently focused on a transnational history of Cold War narratives and representations of spying, secrecy, and multiple identities. He is the author of The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland between Nazis, Stalinists, and Nationalists (Cornell University Press, 2015), which reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe’s most important multiethnic borderland cities.