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Timothy Snyder
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American historian (born 1969)
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- Born
- 18 Aug 1969
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Chervonyĭ kni͡azʹ
- Ukrainskai͡a istorii͡a, rossiĭskai͡a politika, evropeĭskoe budushchee
- על הרודנות
- Must muld
- Power of the Powerless
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Key facts
- Born
- Timothy David Snyder , ( 1969-08-18 ) August 18, 1969 (age 56) , Dayton, Ohio , U.S.
- Spouse
- Marci Shore ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2005 )
- Awards
- George Louis Beer Prize (2003) , Hannah Arendt Prize (2013), The VIZE 97 Prize (2015)
- Education
- Brown University ( BA ) Balliol College, Oxford ( DPhil )
- Thesis
- Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872–1905): A Political and Intellectual Biography (1995)
- Doctoral advisor
- Timothy Garton Ash , Jerzy Jedlicki
- Other advisor
- Charles Feinstein
- Sub discipline
- History of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust
- Institutions
- Yale University London School of Economics College of Europe University of Toronto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Snyder
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Dayton
- Spouse
- Marci Shore
- Occupation
- academic
- Educated at
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Native language
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- Central Europe
- Image
- Timothy Snyder, 2016 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1969-08-18
- Commons category
- Timothy Snyder
- name in native language
- Timothy Snyder
- social media followers
- 494776
- affiliation string
- Yale University
- affiliation
- Yale University
- interested in
- history
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Encyclopedic overview
Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. From 2017 to 2025 he was the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University.
He is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Snyder serves on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Timothy Snyder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.