THEODORE R. WEEKS

EDUCATION

Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

M.A. German Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1984

B.A. German, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1980 With Honors

PRESENT POSITION

Associate Professor

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

HONORS (partial list since 1990)

Participant, Seminar on the Holocaust in Poland. US Holocaust Museum, Washington. January 2000.

East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington. Research grant, May-June 1999.

Research Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Academic 1998-1999.

Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington. Short-Term Research Grant, December 1998.

Vtols Prize for Best Article in Journal of Baltic Studies. Summer 1998.

IREX Advanced Research Grant to Lithuania. May to August 1998.

Title VIII Postdoctoral Fellowship. Hoover Insitution, Stanford University. March to August 1997

IREX Advanced Research Grant to Russia and Belarus. September 1996 to March 1997.

Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington. Short-Term Research Grant, May-June 1996.

IREX Advanced Research Grant to Poland. Summer 1995.

East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center. Research grant, January 1995.

SSRC Postdoctoral Training Fellowship. 1994-1996.

SIU-C Faculty Research Grant to Finland. Summer 1994.

IREX Short-Term Travel Grant to Poland. December 1993.

Research Fellowship, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1993.

Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1992-93

University of California Exchange with Herzen Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia April-June 1992

ACLS/Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Dissertation Fellowship 1991-92

Fulbright Research Fellowship to Poland 1991

IREX Research Fellowship to USSR 1990-91

RESEARCH LANGUAGES

German, Russian, Polish, French, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Lithuanian, Hebrew

Reading knowledge: Yiddish, Ukrainian, Slovak, Romanian, Esperanto, Belorussian, Swedish, Finnish

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nationalism

"Minority Nationalities" in East-Central Europe, the Russian Empire, and the USSR

National Movements in East Central Europe and Russia

Ethnic Relations and Assimilation

Publications (partial list)

Book

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

Contributions to Collections of Essays

"A National Triangle: Lithuanians, Poles and the Russian Imperial Government." In Catherine Evtuhov, Boris Gasparov et al., eds. Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire. Moscow: O.G.I., 1997, pp. 365-380.

"National Minorities in the Russian Empire, 1897-1917." In Anna Geifman, ed., Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion 1894-1917 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999), pp. 111-134.

Articles

"Nationality and Municipality: Reforming City Government in the Kingdom of Poland," Russian History/Histoire Russe, XXI, No. 1 (Spring 1994), 23-47.

"Defining Us and Them: Poles and Russians in the 'Western Provinces', 1863-1914," Slavic Review, LIII, No. 1 (Spring 1994), 26-40.

Lithuanians, Poles and the Russian Imperial Government at the Turn of the Century," Journal of Baltic Studies, XXV, No. 4 (Winter 1994), 289-304.

"Defending Our Own: Government and the Russian Minority in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905-1914," The Russian Review, LIV, No. 4 (October 1995), 539-551.

"The 'End' of the Uniate Church in Russia: The Vozsoedinenie of 1875," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, XLIV (1995), 1-13.

"Polish 'Progressive Antisemitism,' 1905-1914." East European Jewish Affairs, XXV, No. 2 (1995), 49-68.

"Poles, Jews, and Russians 1863-1914: The Death of the Ideal of Assimilation in the Kingdom of Poland." South East European Monitor, III, No. 3 (1996), 36-54.

"Ukrainians and Official Russia: A Deafening Silence." South East European Monitor (Vienna), IV, No. 1 (1997), 32-41.

"The 'International Jewish Conspiracy' Reaches Poland: Teodor Jeske-Choiski and His Works." East European Quarterly, XXXI, No. 1 (March 1997), 21-41.

"Polish-Jewish Relations 1903-1914: The View from the Chancellery." Canadian Slavonic Papers XL, Nos. 3-4 (September-December 1998), 233-249.

"Fanning the Flames: Jews in the Warsaw Press, 1905-1912." East European Jewish Affairs, vol. 28, no. 2 (Winter 1998-9), 63-81.

"'Our Muslims' - The Lithuanian Tatars and the Russian Imperial Government." Journal of Baltic Studies, vol. 30, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 5-17.

"Political and National Survival in the Late Russian Empire: The Case of the Korwin-Milewski Brothers." East European Quarterly, XXXIII, No. 3 (September 1999), 347-369.

"Poles, Jews,and Russians, 1863-1914: The Death of the Ideal of Assimilation in the Kingdom of Poland." Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies, vol. 12 (1999), 242-256.