Timothy Snyder

Biography

Timothy David Snyder, born August 18, 1969, is an American historian specializing in Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies. From 2017 to 2025, he was the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University.

Snyder is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience and belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations. His books include 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).

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