Gregory Weeks (born 1970) is a lecturer at the International Relations Department at Webster University in Vienna, Austria.[1] He was the Head of the International Relations Department from 2005 until 2011. Weeks teaches and researches civil-military relations, genocide prevention, and twentieth century Austrian and German diplomatic and military history.[2][3]
Weeks has co-authored Vienna’s Conscience: Close-Ups and Conversations after Hitler (2007), which focuses on the fiftieth anniversary of the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 and Austrian efforts to confront the country’s World War II past.[2][3] In addition, he has authored over two dozen scholarly articles, among others on the German colonial wars, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Weimar Republic.[verification needed] Together with the War Crimes Section of the Canadian Department of Justice, he conducted archival research to aid in the post-war trials of Austrian National Socialists. Weeks has received distinguished fellowships and awards from several institutions and foundations including the United States Military Academy, the Leucorea Foundation, and the Stuttgart Seminar in Cultural Studies. With a Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellowship, Professor Weeks spent a summer studying the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization with prominent scholars from across the globe in 1998.[2][3]
Weeks, Gregory (2008). "Die erste Republik aus US-amerikanischer Sicht" [The First Republic from an American Perspective]. In Karner, Stefan; Mikoletzky, Lorenz; Zollinger, Manfred (eds.). Österreich. 90 Jahre Republik: Beitragsband der Ausstellung im Parlament [Of Austria. 90 years of Republic: review of the issues in Parliament] (in German). Innsbruck: Studien Verlag. pp. 565–570. ISBN978-3-7065-4664-5. OCLC277195118.
Popovic, Petar; Weeks, Gregory (2007). "The EU and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century: The Trauma of War and Hopes for Stability in the Region". In Sergi, Bruno S; Bagatelas, William T. (eds.). Economic and political development ethics: Europe and beyond. Bratislava: Iura Edition. ISBN978-80-8078-167-5. OCLC182530333.
Winter, Richard; Balk, Susan Winter; Weeks, Gregory (2007). Vienna's conscience: close-ups and conversations after Hitler. St. Louis, MO: Reedy Press. ISBN978-1-933370-08-8. OCLC213866939.
Weeks, Gregory (2005). "The Legacy of the Habsburg Empire for the EU". In Sergi, Bruno S.; Bagatelas, William T. (eds.). Ethical Implications of Post-Communist Transition Economics and Politics in Europe. Bratislava: Iura Edition. ISBN978-80-8078-045-6. OCLC60455929.
Weeks, Gregory (2004). "The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, 1950–2004: Lessons from the Past for the Future?". In Sergi, Bruno S.; Bagatelas, William T. (eds.). Economics and politics: has 9/11 changed anything?. Bratislava: Iura Edition. ISBN978-80-8078-007-4. OCLC56565086.
Weeks, Gregory (1999–2002). "Leontine Sagan". In Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah (eds.). Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia. Vol. 13. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications. ISBN978-0-7876-4071-2. OCLC41108563.
Weeks, Gregory (Winter 2001). "The Linguistic Legacy of the Civil War: How the Civil War changed American English". American Studies Journal (48). Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: Center for United States Studies at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany: 52–56. ISBN9781933370088. ISSN1433-5239. OCLC230085876.
Weeks, Gregory (September 1995). "Der Nationalsozialistische Traum von einem Deutsch-Mittelafrikanischen Reich, 1933–1943" [The National Socialist dream of a German Central African Empire, 1933–1943]. Geschichte und Gegenwart: Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Gesellschaftsanalyse und politische Bildung (in German). 14 (3). Graz, Austria: Styria. ISBN9781933370088. ISSN1017-1444. OCLC472888623.
Weeks, Gregory (May 1990). "The Roman Limes Wall of Defense in Southern Germany". Pompeiiana Newsletter. 16 (9). Indianapolis: Pompeiiana, Inc: 1–3. ISBN9781933370088. ISSN0892-5941. OCLC15250306.
Museum exhibit projects
Consultant and Organizing Committee Member for “The New Austria” Exhibit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2005
Consultant to “Austria is Free” Exhibit in the Schallaburg, Lower Austria, 2005
Consultant to “Austria: 90 Years of the Republic,” 2008–2009 in the Austrian Parliament