Mark D. Steinberg

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Mark D. Steinberg
Born (1953-06-08) June 8, 1953 (age 70)
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
Spouses
  • Jane Hedges (1980–2015)
Daniela Steila
(m. 2020)
Children1, Sasha

Mark D. Steinberg (born June 8, 1953) is a historian, writer, and professor. He taught at Harvard University, Yale University, and the

University of Illinois
, Urbana-Champaign, from which he retired in 2021. He is the author of many books and articles on Russian history.

Early life and education

He was born in San Francisco, California. 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, from 1996 until his retirement in 2021, he held the position of Professor, Department of History at University of Illinois. He was 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).

Publications

Books written


Books edited

Personal life

Mark Steinberg was married to Jane T. Hedges from 1980 until her death in 2015.[

ninth season of American drag competition RuPaul's Drag Race
.

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