Timothy Snyder is Professor of History at Yale University and IWM Permanent Fellow. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar and has held fellowships in Paris and Vienna, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern East European political history at Yale University. Snyder is currently at work on a history of political atrocity in Eastern Europe from 1933 to 1953, and a family history of nationalism. His book Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe was awarded the Oskar Halecki Prize for Outstanding Work of Polish or East European History from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences. The Reconstruction of Nations won the American Historical Association's 2003 George Louis Beer Prize.

Selected Publications

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, New York: Basic Books, 2010 (forthcoming)

The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke, New York: Basic Books, 2008
Der König der Ukraine: Die geheimen Leben des Wilhelm von Habsburg, Wien: Zsolnay, 2009

The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, Yale University Press, 2003

The Wall Around the West: State Power and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America (with Peter Andreas), New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001

Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz , Harvard University Press, 1998