Since May 2017 she has been Professor of Holocaust Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
[1][2] Steinbacher is the author of several works on the Holocaust, including Musterstadt Auschwitz: Germanisierungspolitik und Judenmord in Ostoberschlesien (2010) and Auschwitz: A History (2005).
She was a residential fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from October 2012 to June 2013,[3] and has served as Professor of Dictatorship, Violence and Genocide Comparative Studies at the University of Vienna.
[2] Her appointment by Goethe University Frankfurt in December 2016 made her Germany's first Professor of Holocaust Studies.
She also became director of the university's Fritz Bauer Institute.