Education
As a Doctor of Philosophy student Steinweis was a fellow at the University of Bonn and a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin.
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As a Doctor of Philosophy student Steinweis was a fellow at the University of Bonn and a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin.
Steinweis earned his doctorate in 1988 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under Gerhard L. Weinberg. He was a guest professor in 2000 at the Ben Gurion University in Israel, in 2002 at the University of Hannover and in 2003 at the University of Heidelberg. In 1993 he joined the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Nebraska), as the Hyman Rosenberg Professor of Modern European History and Judaic Studies in the Department of History.
In 2011, he was invited for a sabbatical at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt.
In 2012, Steinweis was appointed Leonard and Carolyn Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, where he also serves as Director of Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies.