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Christina Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era at The Pennsylvania State University. She is an historian of colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on North America from the pre-contact era through the late nineteenth century. Snyder earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Snyder is the author of Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2010). These books received a wide range of accolades, including the Francis Parkman Prize, the John H. Dunning Prize, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize, the James H. Broussard Prize, and the John C. Ewers Prize.
Professor Snyder also enjoys collaborative projects. Along with Michael Schaller, Janette Thomas Greenwood, Andrew Kirk, Sarah J. Purcell, and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, she co-authors the textbook American Horizons: US History in a Global Context, now in its fourth edition with Oxford University Press. She co-edits, with Thomas G. Andrews, Ari Kelman, Amy Lonetree, and Mary E. Mendoza, the University of Nebraska Press book series Many Wests and hosts the associated McCabe Greer Manuscript Workshop at Penn State.
Additionally, Snyder is the author of more than twenty-five articles and review essays. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the National Humanities Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.