Christina Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State. Snyder earned her A.B. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia and her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Snyder is working on her third book, American Abolitions: The Slow Death and Many Afterlives of Slavery. Demonstrating that anti-slavery movements are as old as chattel slavery itself, this book examines efforts to abolish or prohibit slavery in North America from the 1500s to the 1800s.

Snyder is also the author of Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford, 2017) and Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Harvard, 2010). These books received a wide range of accolades, including the Francis Parkman Prize, the John H. Dunning Prize, the James H. Broussard Prize, and the John C. Ewers Prize. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.