Background
Steger was born in Austria and left there in 1986 to study in the United States.
Steger was born in Austria and left there in 1986 to study in the United States.
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in political theory and comparative politics at Rutgers University in 1995.
He was also Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Globalism Research Centre at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia until 2013.
As of 2013, Steger is a member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Review, the research journal of the American Political Science Association.