Background

Mark Steinberg was born on June 8, 1953 in San Francisco, California, United States, in the family of Norman Emanuel and Dina (Gilbert) Steinberg.

Education

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by Master of Arts in 1982 and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in 1987 in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

At Illinois, Mark holds the position of Professor in the 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 in 1994–1996.

Achievements

• Mark is famous for his books "Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry, 1867-1907", "The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution", and "Cultures in Flux: Lower Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia."

Works

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  • The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution (Annals of Communism Series) 1997
  • Voices of Revolution, 1917 2003
  • Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 2002
  • A History of Russia 2010
  • Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry 1867-1907 (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) 1992

Membership

• American Historical Association

• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Interests

• Hiking, music, travel.

Connections

On August 10, 1980 Mark Steinberg married Jane T. Hedges, who for many years was Managing Editor of Slavic Review. Their only child is Alexander (Sasha) Hedges Steinberg, a cartoon artist and designer, as well as a celebrated drag queen performer (under the name Sasha Velour) who won the ninth season of American drag competition RuPaul's Drag Race.

Father:

Norman Emanuel Steinberg

Mother:

Dina (Gilbert) Steinberg

Spouse:

Jane Taylor Hedges

child:

Alexander Steinberg