Dr Sarah Snyder
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Lecturer in International History Office: 305, 24 Gordon Square |
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Sarah B. Snyder specializes in the history of the Cold War, Human Rights activism and United States Human Rights policy. Her research interests focus specifically on the international history of the Cold War and transnational human rights activism. Her 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. Her next project will study the development of United States human rights policy during the long 1960s.
She previously served as 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. She received her Ph.D. from Georgetown, a M.A. from UCL, and a B.A. with honours from Brown University.
Select Publications:
Book
Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Journal Articles
“Exporting Amnesty International to the United States: Transatlantic Human Rights Activism in the 1960s,” Human Rights Quarterly (forthcoming)
“The Foundation for Vienna: A Reassessment of the CSCE in the mid-1980s,” Cold War History 10:4 (2010), 493-512
“Through the Looking Glass: The Helsinki Final Act and the 1976 Election for President,” Diplomacy and Statecraft 21:1 (March 2010): 87-106.
“The CSCE and the Atlantic Alliance: Forging a New Consensus in Madrid,” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8:1 (March 2010): 56-68.
“‘Jerry, Don’t Go’: Domestic Opposition to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act,” Journal of American Studies 44:1 (February 2010): 67-81.
Essays
“The Defeat of Ernest Lefever's Nomination: Keeping Human Rights on the United States Foreign Policy Agenda,” in Challenging US Foreign Policy: America and the World in the Long Twentieth Century, ed. Bevan Sewell and Scott Lucas, (Palgrave, 2011).
“Principles Overwhelming Tanks: Human Rights and the End of the Cold War,” in Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: An International History, ed. Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, and William Hitchcock, (Oxford University Press, in press).
“The Rise of Human Rights During the Johnson Years,” in The United States and Dawn of the Post-Cold War Era, ed. Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence, (Oxford University Press, in press).
“The Rise of the Helsinki Network: ‘A Sort of Lifeline’ for Eastern Europe,” in Perforating the Iron Curtain: European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985, ed. Odd Arne Westad and Poul Villaume, (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009).
“‘A Debate in the Fox Den About Raising Chickens’: How East-West Dialogue on Human Rights Transformed the Cold War,” in The ‘Establishment’ Responds: Power and Protest During and After the Cold War, ed. Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, (Palgrave Macmillan, in press).
“The U.S., Western Europe, and the CSCE, 1972−1975,” in The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter, ed. Matthias Schulz and Thomas A. Schwartz, (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Teaching:
HIST 1002: Concepts, categories and the Practice of History
HIST 7329: Studies in the History of the Americas: The United States and International Human Rights since 1941
HIST G072: The Cold War: An International History
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