Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.
He is the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow. A New York Times bestseller and a book of the year according to The Atlantic, The Independent, The Financial Times, the Telegraph, and the New Statesman, it has won twelve awards including the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought.
Books in order of publication:
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe – 1998
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 – 2003
Sketches from a Secret War – 2005
The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke – 2008
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin – 2010
Thinking the Twentieth Century – 2012
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning – 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century – 2017
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America – 2018
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary – 2020
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