Timothy Snyder | |
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Born | Timothy David Snyder 1969 (age 55–56) |
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Children | 2 |
Awards | George Louis Beer Prize (2003)[1] Hannah Arendt Prize (2013) The VIZE 97 Prize (2015) |
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Sub-discipline | History of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust |
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Timothy David Snyder (born 1969)[2] is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.[3][4]
He has written several books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017), The Road to Unfreedom (2018), and Our Malady (2020). Several of them have been described as best-sellers.[5][6]
Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is currently (February 2025) on leave from his position at Yale University and will teach at the Munk School in the 2025-2026 academic year. [7]