Timothy Snyder
Current affiliations
- Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna
- Chair, Academic Advisory Council, Ukrainian History Global Initiative
- Senior Fellow for Democracy, Council on Foreign Relations (New York)
Areas of interest
- Eastern Europe
- Ukraine
- History of the Soviet Union
- History of the Holocaust
- Authoritarianism
- Philosophy of Freedom
Biography
Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is also a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the head of the academic advisory council of Ukrainian History Global Initiative. He is currently on leave from his position as the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and will begin teaching at the Munk School in the 2025-2026 academic year.
A scholar of the history of Central Europe, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, Snyder speaks five and reads ten European languages. He is the author or editor of twenty books published in forty languages. Snyder writes for the press on Ukraine, the U.S, authoritarianism, digital politics, health, and education. He has also appeared in documentaries, on television, and as an expert witness before several parliaments. He has received state orders and decorations as well as honorary doctorates.
His work has inspired demonstrations, sculpture, posters, punk rock, rap, film, theater, and an opera.
Select publications
Books
- On Freedom. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2024.
- Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2020.
- The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2018.
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017.
- Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. New York: Tim Duggan Books, September 2015.
- Stalin and Europe: Terror, War, and Domination, 1937-1947. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 (co-edited with Ray Brandon)
- Thinking the 20th Century. London: Penguin Books, 2011 (with Tony Judt).
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
- The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke. New York: Basic Books, 2008
Snyder is a regular contributor multiple publications including the New York Review of Books and the New York Review of Books Blog.
Awards & recognition
Professor 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.