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Timothy Snyder

born 1969

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Wikipedia Summary

Timothy David Snyder 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.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
August 18, 1969
Dayton
Citizenship

United States

Occupations & fields
historianwriterliterary criticuniversity teacherpolitical scientistacademic
Awards & honours
Hannah Arendt PrizeRalph Waldo Emerson AwardMarshall ScholarshipAntonovych prizeGeorge Louis Beer PrizeLeipzig Book Award for European Understanding
Notable works
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, AmericaBloodlandsOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Field and occupation
americký historik a politolog
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