Alan Edward Steinweis (born January 15, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American historian and a professor at the University of Vermont.
Steinweis earned his doctorate in 1988 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under Gerhard L. Weinberg.
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.
[7] He is editor of the American edition of the Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, a monograph series published by the University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust research and commemoration authority of the state of Israel.
He is currently writing a book on the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, which will be published by Harvard University Press.