Timothy Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the History of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Snyder is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Professor Snyder teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in modern eastern European political history and graduate seminars on the Holocaust, on east European History as global history, and on the dynamics of international crisis in European political history. Most recently, he has taught lecture surveys, "Eastern Europe to 1914" and "Eastern Europe Since 1914," graduate seminars on "The Global History of the Holocaust" and "Contemporary History of Diplomatic Crisis," and an undergraduate seminar, "Communist Takeovers in Postwar Eastern Europe" (co-taught with Sara Silverstein).
