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Born | Timothy David Snyder 1969 (age 54–55) Ohio, U.S. |
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Children | 2 |
Awards | American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize (2003),[1] Hannah Arendt Prize (2013), The VIZE 97 Prize (2015) |
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Sub-discipline | History of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust |
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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 the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.[3][4]
He has written several books, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, The Road to Unfreedom, and Our Malady. Several of them have been described as best-sellers.[5][6]
Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.