Professor Thomas Weber

Biography

Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; a Senior Associate of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto; and a Member of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present.

A native of Breckerfeld in Westphalia, he earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford. He also has taught or has held fellowships at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow.

His 2004 book Lodz Ghetto Album won a Golden Light Award and an Infinity Award. Our Friend “The Enemy” is the recipient of the 2008 Duc d’Arenberg History Prize for the best book on European History, while Hitler's First War won the 2010 Arthur Goodzeit Book Award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium for the best book on military history. Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi , a El Mundo Top 10 Best Seller, was shortlisted for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize. He also brought out Als die Demokratie starb: Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten; Wenn das Gestern anklopft: Weimar und die Wiederkehr der Geschichte; Nach der Nacht: Holocaustüberlebende über die Zukunft der Demokratie; and Vom Nachkrieg zum Vorkrieg: Die Pariser Friedensverträge und die internationale Ordnung der Zwischenkriegszeit.

His online course 'Understanding Political Extremism: Hitler as a Case Study' is open to enrollment from anywhere in the world.