Timothy Snyder
Timothy David Snyder (born 1969) 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. He is a permanent fellow at the
Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
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.
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.
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