Ryan Snyder is a Ph.D. candidate in History studying the modern Americas (North, Central, and South), specializing in the historical geography of capitalism, environmental history, and the United States Empire. Their research takes the Pan-American Highway as a unit of analysis to explore the construction and reproduction of local, regional, and transnational inequalities. Ryan received an MA in History in 2024 from Villanova University, where they served as the 2023-2024 graduate fellow with the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest. They won the 2023-2024 Daniel B. Carroll Award for Best Graduate History Paper with their graduate thesis, "Evangelist for Capitalism: Nelson Rockefeller, Development, and the Cold War in Venezuela."






