Amir Weiner

Amir Weiner
Born (1961-09-17) September 17, 1961
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineSoviet history
InstitutionsStanford University Department of History

Amir Weiner (born 17 September 1961) is an American historian and associate professor of Soviet history at Stanford University. His interests include mass violence, population politics, totalitarianism, and World War II. Weiner is the director of Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and his research includes the KGB and the Soviet Union's surveillance state. Weiner is a former research scholar for the Wilson Center, and he was affiliated with the Kennan Institute in 1994–1995.