Timothy Snyder reads five, and speaks ten, European languages, which give him a tremendous advantage when researching and writing about European history. An undergraduate at Brown University, he continued his studies at Oxford where he received his doctorate in 1997 while a British Marshall Scholar. In addition to fellowships in Paris, Vienna and Warsaw, he held an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He is currently Housum Professor of History at Yale University where he teaches modern East European political history.
According to the biography on his website:
Among his publications are six single-authored award-winning books, all of which have been translated: Nationalism, Marxism, …read more
Source: Daily Kos