Mark D. Steinberg

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. (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).

Specialization

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.

Publications

Books written

• 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

Books edited

• 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

Personal life

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). They have one child, Alexander (Sasha) Hedges Steinberg, a cartoon artist, writer, and drag performer (under the name Sasha Velour).

External links

• CV at University of Illinois
• web page at University of Illinois