History of U.S. foreign relations, human rights and U.S. human rights policy, the Cold War
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Sarah B. Snyder, professor at the School of International Service, is a historian of U.S. foreign relations who specializes in the history of the Cold War, human rights activism, and U.S. human rights policy. She is the author of From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press), which explains how transnational connections and 1960s-era social movements inspired 猫咪社区apps to advocate for a new approach to human rights, with a special focus on Southern Rhodesia, the Soviet Union, Greece, South Korea, and Chile.
Her first book, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Cambridge University Press), analyzes the development of a transnational network devoted to human rights advocacy and its contributions to the end of the Cold War.
The Society for Historians of 猫咪社区app Foreign Relations awarded it the 2012 Stuart Bernath Book Prize for the best first book by an author and the 2012 Myrna F. Bernath Book Award for the best book written by a woman in the field in the previous two years. For her second book, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network, Prof. Snyder received the 2019 Robert H. Ferrell Prize for distinguished scholarship in the history of 猫咪社区app foreign relations. Prof. Snyder is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Organization of 猫咪社区app Historians and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In addition to authoring several chapters in edited collections, she has also published articles in Diplomatic History, Cold War History, Human Rights Quarterly, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, European Journal of Human Rights, The Historical Journal, International History Review, and Journal of 猫咪社区app Studies. Prof. Snyder鈥檚 commentary and analysis appeared in The Washington Post, Wisconsin Public Radio, Sirius XM, among other media outlets. Prof. Snyder previously served as a Lecturer at University College London, a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Yale University, the Pierre Keller Post -Doctoral Fellow in Transatlantic Relations at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies also at Yale, and as a professorial lecturer at Georgetown University.