Mark D. Steinberg is a history professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He was born in San Francisco, California, on June 8, 1953. 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, he holds the position of Professor, 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 (1994–96).
Mark Steinberg specializes on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially the period of the Russian Revolution. His research interests focus on the cultures of the city, modernities, emotions, religion, utopia, and the experiences and worldview of lower-class Russians.
Mark D. Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Mark D. Steinberg, Petersburg Fin de Siècle. Yale University Press, 2011.
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia, 8th ed., Oxford University Press, 2010
Mark D. Steinberg, Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925. (Cornell University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8014-8826-9
Review: Journal of Social History, Spring, 2005, vol. 38, no. 3, p. 788-790
Review: Slavic Review, Autumn, 2004, vol. 63, no. 3, p. 654
Review: Journal of Modern History, Dec., 2004, vol. 76, no. 4, p. 1006-1007
Review: Canadian Slavonic Papers. 45, no. 3, (2003): 503
Review: American Historical Review 109, Part 1 (2004): 286
Mark D. Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917 (in the series “Annals of Communism,”) Yale University Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0-300-09016-1
Review: Slavic Review, Spring, 2003, vol. 62, no. 1, p. 185-186
Review: Russian Review, Jan., 2003, vol. 62, no. 1, p. 169-170
Review: The Slavic and East European Journal, Fall, 2005, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 510-512
Review: Canadian Slavonic papers. 47, no. 3, (2005): 409
Review: Social History . 29, Part 2 (2004): 238
Mark D. Steinberg and Vladimir M. Khrustalëv, The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution. In the series Annals of Communism, Yale University Press, 1995 ISBN 978-0-300-06557-2.
Review: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Sep., 1996, vol. 547, p. 181-182
Review: Russian Review, Apr., 1997, vol. 56, no. 2, p. 312-313
Review: Slavic and East European Journal, Autumn, 1996, vol. 40, no. 3, p. 590-591
translated into Portuguese as, A queda dos Romanov : a história documentada do cativeiro e execução do último czar e sua família Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1996 ISBN 978-85-7110-375-7
translated into Japanese, 1997
translated into Russian as: Skorbnyi put’ Romanovykh (1917-1918 gg): Gibel’ tsarskoi sem’i (in the series “Arkhiv noveishei istorii Rossii: Seriia ‘Publikatsii,’” ROSSPEN, Moscow, 2001)
Mark D. Steinberg, Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry, 1867‑1907 University of California Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-520-07572-6
Review: The American Historical Review, Feb., 1994, vol. 99, no. 1, p. 266-267
Review, Journal of Social History, Autumn, 1994, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 221-223
Review, Russian Review, Jul., 1994, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 452-453
Review: Slavic and East European Journal, Autumn, 2004, vol. 48, no. 3, p. 495-496
Review: The Slavonic and East European Review, Apr., 2004, vol. 82, no. 2, p. 370-371
Review: Victorian Periodicals Review, Spring, 1995, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 83-85
Mark D. Steinberg and Valeria Sobol, eds., Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe. Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Mark D. Steinberg and Catherine Wanner, eds.Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Indiana University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-253-35266-8
Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J Coleman, eds. Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia. Indiana University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-253-34747-3
Review: Journal of modern history. 81, no. 1, (2009): 241
Review: American historical review. 112, no. 4, (2007): 1296
Stephen Frank and Mark D Steinberg, eds. Cultures in Flux: Lower Class Values, Practices and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia. Princeton University Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-691-00106-7.
Review: Canadian-American Slavic studies. Revue canadienne-américaine d'études slaves. 30, no. 2-4, (1996): 317
Mark Steinberg was married to the late Jane T. Hedges, who for many years was Managing Editor of Slavic Review (previously working in university book publishing as an editor). 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.
