Andrea Weis, PhD, is ain independent social historian whose research focuses on Jewish history in the 19th-century American Midwest and 20th-century Germany, including the Nazi era and the Holocaust. For her work on German Jewish history, the works extensively with primary sources, including materials in old German script, to examine every day experiences and community life. Her work sheds light on previously unknown aspects of Jewish history in the Midwest, including the discovery of communities that had not been documented before. Dr. Weis is currently collaborating with Dr. David M. Katzman on a book about Jewish life in Kansas and the Midwest as well as on a manuscript about the Jewish abolitionist August Bondi.

Between 1997 and 2016, Andrea was an instructor at the University of Kansas, where she taught across multiple disciplines including English Composition and Literature, American Studies and Sociology, German, and Graduate Writing. She has helped graduate students at the University of Kansas write, revise, and edit their theses, dissertations, and scholarly articles. Andrea has worked independently as since 2016. She has translated historical documents for private clients, historians, and the National World War I Museum in Kansas City.