Glenn Herald Snyder (October 8, 1924 – February 14, 2013) was professor emeritus of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[5][6][7] Snyder was born in Superior, Wisconsin and served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II from 1943 to 1945.
From 1953 until 1955, he worked as a teaching fellow at Wesleyan University, then from 1955 to 1958 he worked as a lecturer and research associate in the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia before taking a position in Princeton University's Center of International Studies, which he held until 1960.
In 1964, Snyder joined the department of political science at the State University of New York Buffalo, where he taught until 1984.
In 1984, Snyder joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as professor of political science.