Mark D. Steinberg (born June 8, 1953) is a historian, writer, and professor.
He is the author of many books and articles on Russian history.
He was 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.
Mark Steinberg was married to Jane T. Hedges from 1980 until her death in 2015.
[citation needed] Their only child is Alexander (Sasha) Hedges Steinberg, a cartoon artist and designer, as well as a celebrated drag queen performer (under the name Sasha Velour) who won the ninth season of American drag competition RuPaul's Drag Race.