Mark D. Steinberg is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He was born in San Francisco, California, on June 8, 1953. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, followed by M.A and Ph.D. 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 and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; 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.
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