Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder
Snyder in 2016
Born
Timothy David Snyder

1969 (age 55–56)
Ohio, U.S.
Spouse
(m. 2005)
Children2
AwardsAmerican Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize (2003),[1]
Hannah Arendt Prize (2013),
The VIZE 97 Prize (2015)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Sub-disciplineHistory of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust
Institutions

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, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, The Road to Unfreedom, and Our Malady. 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.

  1. ^ George Louis Beer Prize Archived September 17, 2019, at the Wayback Machine American Historical Association (homepage), Retrieved November 30, 2012
  2. ^ Snyder, Timothy (September 17, 2024). "Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America By Surprise".
  3. ^ "Timothy Snyder | Department of History". history.yale.edu. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  4. ^ Ian Kershaw and Timothy Snyder to be honoured with Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2012 Leipzig.de, January 16, 2012 Archived March 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Gonzales, Susan (October 21, 2017). "One Yale historian, two NYT bestsellers". Yale News. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  6. ^ "Timothy Snyder Books". timothysnyder.org. Archived from the original on December 22, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2023.

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