Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder (b. 1969) is a Professor of History at Yale University and a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. An expert in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, he regularly contributes to well-known European and American publications. He has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received the Hannah Arendt Prize and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies. He studied at Brown University and earned his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Oxford. He speaks eleven European languages, enabling him to make the most of archival sources from Germany and Central Europe.