18 Facts About Timothy Snyder

Timothy David Snyder was born on August 18,1969 and is an American historian specializing in the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe, who is the Richard C Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Timothy Snyder has written several books, including the best-sellers Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

An expert on the Holocaust, Snyder is on the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Timothy Snyder is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Timothy Snyder's parents were married in a Quaker ceremony in 1963 in Ohio, and his mother was active in preserving her family farmstead as a Quaker historic site.

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Timothy Snyder received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science from Brown University and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in modern history in 1995 at the University of Oxford, supervised by Timothy Garton Ash and Jerzy Jedlicki.

Timothy Snyder was a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1991 to 1994.

Timothy Snyder has held fellowships at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris from 1994 to 1995, the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna in 1996, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University in 1997, and was an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1998 to 2001.

Timothy Snyder has been an instructor at the College of Europe Natolin Campus, the Baron Velge Chair at the Universite libre de Bruxelles, the Cleveringa Chair at the Leiden University, Philippe Romain Chair at the London School of Economics, and the 2013 Rene Girard Lecturer at Stanford University.

Timothy Snyder is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Timothy Snyder serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies.

Timothy Snyder says that he speaks five European languages and reads ten.

In 2010, Timothy Snyder published Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.

Timothy Snyder published Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning in 2015.

Timothy 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.

Timothy Snyder's view was questioned by Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor at The George Washington University:.

In 2015, Timothy Snyder delivered a series of lectures in Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv.

In 2005, Timothy Snyder married Marci Shore, a professor of European cultural and intellectual history at Yale University.