Theodore R. Weeks | Humanities and Social Sciences | SIU

Theodore R. Weeks is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where teaches courses in modern world, European, and Russian history. He also teaches at the College of Europe, Natolin (Warsaw). Among his works are Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier, 1863-1914 (1996), From Assimilation to Antisemitism: the “Jewish Question” in Poland, 1850-1914 (2006), and Vilnius between Nations 1795-2000 (2015). His research interests include nationalism, ethnic relations, antisemitism, and, more recently, the history of technology. He is presently working on a history of radio in interwar Poland (1920-1939).

Major Publications (partial list)

Books

Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on Russia's Western Frontier 1863-1914. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996.

From Assimilation to Antisemitism: the “Jewish Question” in Poland, 1850-1914. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.

Vilnius between Nations, 1795-2000. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2015.

Textbooks

Making Europe: People, Politics and Culture (chapters 20-25 [1815-1918]; co-author with Frank Kidner et al.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008; second edition Cengage Publishing, 2013; third edition Cengage Publishing 2018.

Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia 1861-1945. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.ajsi