A specialist in the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests focus on the cultures of the city, modernities, emotions, religion, the experiences and worldview of lower-class Russians, and the development of ideas and values. Since August 2006, he has been editor of the interdisciplinary journal Slavic Review. He was born in San Francisco and received his B.A. from U.C. Santa Cruz and his doctoral degree from U.C. Berkeley. He has also worked in New York City as a taxi driver and printer's apprentice.