Timothy Snyder
Timothy D. Snyder is an American historian specializing in 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.
Snyder has authored several books, including Bloodlands (2010), On Tyranny (2017), The Road to Unfreedom (2018), and Our Malady (2020), many of which have been bestsellers. He serves on the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Born near Dayton, Ohio, he earned a B.A. in history and political science from Brown University and a Ph.D. in modern history from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships at institutions such as Harvard, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and the Institute for Human Sciences.
Snyder has taught at the College of Europe, Université libre de Bruxelles, Leiden University, and Stanford. He previously held the Bird White Housum Professorship at Yale. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies and was a founding member of the “Real Facebook Oversight Board” in 2020.
