Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder
Born
Timothy David Snyder

(1969-08-18) August 18, 1969 (age 55)
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Spouse
(m. 2005)
Children2
AwardsGeorge Louis Beer Prize (2003)[1]
Hannah Arendt Prize (2013)
The VIZE 97 Prize (2015)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
Sub-disciplineHistory of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust
Institutions

Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969)[2] is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is on leave from his position as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University (as of 2025), with plans (as of 1 July 2025[3]) to transfer to the University of Toronto for an indefinite time.[4]

He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.[5][6] Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School at the University of Toronto; he will teach at the school during the 2025–26 academic year.[7]

Snyder has written many 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 these have been described as best-sellers.[8][9]

  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. ^ Cite error: The named reference snyder-on-leaving-yale was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Timothy Snyder". munkschool.utoronto.ca | The Munk School. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
  5. ^ "Timothy Snyder". history.yale.edu | Department of History. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ "Timothy Snyder". munkschool.utoronto.ca | The Munk School. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
  8. ^ Gonzales, Susan (October 21, 2017). "One Yale historian, two NYT bestsellers". Yale News. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  9. ^ "Timothy Snyder Books". timothysnyder.org. Archived from the original on December 22, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2023.

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