ABOUT TIMOTHY SNYDER
Photo: Ine Gundersveen
Timothy Snyder is the
Richard C. Levin Professor of
History at
Yale University and a permanent fellow at the
Institute for Human Sciences in
Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. His eight chief books are Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998); The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (2003); Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005); The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (2008); Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Thinking the Twentieth Century (with Tony Judt, 2012); Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015); On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017); and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018). He has also co-edited three further books: The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America (2001); Stalin and Europe: Terror, War, Domination (2013); and The Balkans as Europe (2018). His essays are collected in Ukrainian History, Russian Politics, European Futures (2014), and The Politics of Life and Death (2015).
Snyder’s work has appeared in forty languages and has received a number of prizes, including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Václav Havel Foundation prize, the Foundation for Polish Science prize in the social sciences, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee award, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought.
Snyder was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, has received the
Carnegie and
Guggenheim fellowships, and holds state orders from
Estonia, Lithuania, and
Poland. He has appeared in documentaries, on network television, and in major films. His books have inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, films, sculpture, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play, and an opera. His words are quoted in political demonstrations around the world, most recently in Hong Kong. He is researching a family history of nationalism and finishing a philosophical book about freedom.
Education and Fellowships:
Snyder received his Bachelor of Arts in European history and political science from Brown University in 1991. He then became a British Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctorate in 1997.
He has held fellowships at the Centre Nationale des Recherches Scientifiques, Paris (1994-1995); the Harvard University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (1997); served as an Academy Scholar at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs (1998-2001); and has held multiple fellowships at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.
Teaching:
Professor Snyder teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in modern eastern European political history and graduate seminars on the
Holocaust, on east
European history as global history, and on the
dynamics of international crisis in
European political history.
Most recently, he has taught lecture surveys,
“Eastern Europe to 1914” and
“Eastern Europe Since 1914,” graduate seminars on
“The Global History of the Holocaust” and
“Contemporary History of Diplomatic Crisis,” and an undergraduate seminar,
“Communist Takeovers in Postwar Eastern Europe” (co-taught with
Sara Silverstein).
Honors and Awards:
Literature Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding
Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought
Lithuanian Diplomacy Star
Polish Medal of Bene Merito
Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Estonian Cross of the Order of Terra Mariana, Class III
Philippe Romain Chair, London School of Economics
René Girard Lecturer
Baron Velge Chair, Université Livre, Brussels
Cleveringa Chair, University of Leiden
Phi Beta Kappa Emerson Book Award
Cundill Prize Recognition of Excellence
Le Prix du livre d’Histoire de l’Europe
Moczarski Prize in History
Literature Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding
Gustav Ranis International History Prize
Jean-Charles Velge Prize
Tadeusz Walendowski Book Prize
Wacław Jędrzejewicz History Medal
Cundill Prize Recognition of Excellence
American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize (twice)
George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association
Przegląd Wschodni (Eastern Review) Best Foreign Academic Book
Jerzy Giedroyc Scholarly Award, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University
Oskar Halecki Prize, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
Ongoing Projects:
Professor Snyder is completing a short book about the history of Ukraine and its current crisis, is working on a history of Eastern Europe as well as a family history of nationalism, serves as Series Editor for the Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe, and is on the Editorial Board of New Studies in European History (a series at Cambridge University Press), of the Journal of Modern European History, and of East European Politics and Societies.
He also leads the “United Europe-Divided Memory” project at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, which examines the possible formulation of a postwar transnational European history.
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