Professor Timothy Snyder

Short Bio

Timothy Snyder is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Toronto and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His books, which have been translated into more than forty languages, include "Bloodlands", "Black Earth", "The Road to Unfreedom", "On Tyranny" and, most recently, "On Freedom".

Snyder was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford and has been awarded Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships. His work has been honoured with the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and a literary prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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