Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder
Snyder in 2016
Born	Timothy David Snyder 1969 (age 55–56) Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Spouse	Marci Shore ​ (m. 2005)​
Children	2
Awards	George Louis Beer Prize (2003)[1] Hannah Arendt Prize (2013) The VIZE 97 Prize (2015)
Academic background
Alma mater	Brown University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil)
Academic work
Sub-discipline	History of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust
Institutions	Yale University London School of Economics and Political Science College of Europe

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 on leave from his position as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, with plans to transfer to the University of Toronto for an indefinite time.^[3] He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.^[4][5] Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is 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 at the University of Toronto. As of 2025, he is on leave from his position at Yale University and will teach at the Munk School in the 2025–26 academic year.^[6]

Snyder 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.^[7][8]