Sarah B. Snyder

Sarah B. Snyder

Role: Vice President/President Elect, SHAFR

Education: Ph.D., Georgetown University; M.A., University College London; B.A., Brown University

Email: [email protected]

Biography

Sarah B. Snyder is a Professor at American University's School of International Service. Snyder has served SHAFR as a member of Council, as its representative to the Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee, and on its Committee on Historical Documentation, Robert H. Ferrell Prize Committee, Nominating Committee, William Appleman Williams Junior Faculty Research Grants Committee, and Dissertation Completion Fellowship Committee. She is a past member of SHAFR’s program committee, Passport Editor Search Committee, Public Engagement Task Force, and chair of its Legal History Task Force. Beyond SHAFR, she serves as co-Executive Editor of the journal Modern American History and is a founding co-editor of Columbia University Press' book series, Global America.

Publications

  • Making the World Their Own: A History of Americans Living Abroad (forthcoming April 2027, Princeton University Press)
  • From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press, 2018)
  • Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Awards & Honors

  • Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
  • 2019 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
  • 2012 Myrna F. Bernath Book Award
  • 2012 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize