Timothy D. Snyder

Timothy D. Snyder
Snyder in 2016 at Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
Born	(1969-08-18) August 18, 1969 (age 47)
Residence	United States
Citizenship	American
Fields	History of Eastern Europe
Institutions	Yale University, London School of Economics and Political Science, College of Europe, Warsaw
Alma mater	Brown University (B.A.) Balliol College, Oxford (Ph.D.)
Notable awards	American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Award (2003), Hannah Arendt Prize (2013), The VIZE 97 Prize (2015)
Spouse	Marci Shore (m. 2005)

Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian, author, and academic specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust. He is a professor at Yale University and is affiliated with the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw, Poland. Snyder is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Born in southwestern Ohio, Snyder graduated from Centerville High School, 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Dayton, where his father, a physician, and his mother reside. He received his BA from Brown University and his doctorate in 1997 from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, Warsaw, and as an Academy Scholar at Harvard University. Since 2005, Snyder has been married to Marci Shore, a professor of European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University. Snyder and Shore have two children together.

Snyder has written five books and co-edited two. One of them, Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012), with the late historian Tony Judt, was written while the latter was dying of ALS disease.

Snyder has published essays in publications such as the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Eurozine, Tygodnik Powszechny, the Chicago Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor.