Timothy Snyder
Historian of Eastern Europe
Timothy Snyder is an American historian of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust. He wrote Bloodlands, On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom.
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American Born 1969 in Dayton, United States
About Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder was born in 1969. He completed his doctorate at Oxford in 1997 as a Marshall Scholar. He was Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University from 2017 to 2025, and he holds a chair in modern European history at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. He is a permanent fellow of Vienna's Institute for Human Sciences, and he sits on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, published in 2010, is a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing in the territory stretching from Berlin to Moscow. It was a New York Times bestseller. His later books include On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom and Our Malady, and his books have been published in more than forty languages.