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