Mark D. Steinberg

Mark D. Steinberg is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

He was born in San Francisco, California, on June 8, 1953. He received a B.A. (1978) from the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by M.A (1982) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in history from the University of California, Berkeley. At Illinois, he holds the position of Professor, Department of History at University of Illinois. He is also Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures there (since 2005) and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory (since 2007); from 1998 to 2004 he was Director of their Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center. From August 2006 until August 2013, he was the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Slavic Review.

Before coming to Illinois in 1996, he was an Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University from 1987 to 1989, and at Yale from 1989–1994, where he was promoted to Associate Professor (1994–96).

Mark Steinberg specializes on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially the period of the Russian Revolution. His research interests focus on the cultures of the city, modernities, emotions, religion, utopia, and the experiences and worldview of lower-class Russians.

Mark Steinberg was married to the late Jane T. Hedges, who for many years was Managing Editor of Slavic Review (previously working in university book publishing as an editor). They have one child, Alexander (Sasha) Hedges Steinberg, a cartoon artist, writer, and drag performer (under the name Sasha Velour).

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