Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus of History at Michigan State University (retired in 2018).
His interests include 20th century Europe, Russia and Soviet Union.
[1][2] Lewis Siegelbaum was born in New York to a secular Jewish family.
As a student of Columbia University, Lewis Siegelbaum took part in protests against the Vietnam War.
[3] His doctorate (Oxford University, 1975) was on the history of the Central War-Industries Committee [ru], an organization which tried to coordinate Russian industry during World War I.