Bio

This page provides a full professional biography based on the latest CV update (November 25, 2025).

Personal and Academic Profile

Dr. Oded Y. Steinberg is a modern historian and Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, affiliated with the Department of International Relations and the European Forum. His research focuses on intellectual history, Anglo-German thought, periodization, race and nationalism, and humanitarian advocacy in the nineteenth century.

Higher Education

• 2003-2006: Undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (History, Jewish History, BA program for excelling students), magna cum laude.
• 2007-2010: MA studies at the European Forum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervisor: Prof. Dan Diner. Magna cum laude.
• 2011-2015: DPhil in History, Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Prof. Oliver Zimmer.

Postdoctoral Training

• 2015-2017: Joint postdoctoral fellow, Freie Universitat Berlin (Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• 2017-2019: Postdoctoral fellow, Hubert H. Humphrey Center for Social Research and Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
• 2019-2020: Postdoctoral fellow, CSoC - Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters.

Academic Appointments (Hebrew University)

• 2015-2020: Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, European Forum.
• July 2020-2024: Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, European Forum and Department of International Relations.
• 2023-Present: Cardinal Franz Koenig Chair in Austrian Studies.
• 2024-Present: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, European Forum and Department of International Relations.

Additional Roles at the Hebrew University

• 2022-Present: MA Advisor, German Studies (European Forum).
• 2020-Present: Scholarship Committee, European Forum.
• 2022-2024: Library Committee.

Service in Other Academic Institutions

• 2022-Present: Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem for the Study of German-Jewish History, committee member (Annual Conference in German Studies).

Fellowships and Prizes (Selected)

• Excellence scholarships at the Hebrew University (2004-2010).
• Polonsky scholarships, Lincoln College, Oxford (2011-2014).
• Anglo-Israel and Anglo-Jewish scholarships (Oxford period).
• British Friends of the Hebrew University scholarship.
• Postdoctoral fellowships at Freie Universitat Berlin/HUJI, BGU (Humphrey Center), and CSoC.

Research Grants

• 2017-2019: Da’at Hamakom Center (I-Core), 30,000 NIS (annual grants).
• 2022-2023: European Forum Research Grant, 5,000 USD.
• 2022-2023: Cambridge University DAAD Center, 6,000 GBP.
• 2023-2024: European Forum Research Grant, 5,000 USD.
• 2024-2025: DAAD Research Grant (Jerusalem: Time and Periodization), 10,000 USD.
• 2024-2027: ISF Grant, Informal Networks of Aid, 380,000 NIS.

Teaching and Supervision

Dr. Steinberg supervises MA and doctoral research in modern European and international history, nationalism, and related intellectual traditions.

Recent supervision includes MA theses on German nationalism, comparative political thought, and European intellectual history, as well as co-supervision of doctoral students.

Courses Taught

• The Rise and Fall of British Diplomacy: From the Napoleonic Wars to Brexit (BA)
• Massacre and Genocide in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries European/Global History (MA)
• German Nationalism (MA)
• European Football and Nationalism (MA)
• Modern European History (MA)
• European Nationalism: Myth, Race and History (MA)
• The European Titans: Anglo-German Relations (MA)

Editorial and Academic Leadership

• Founding editor (from 2019) of a De Gruyter-Brill book series on historical periodization.
• Co-organizer of workshops and conferences on time, periodization, nationalism, and humanitarian politics in Europe and the Middle East.

Publications and CV

For the complete publication record and full formal CV documents, use the download links in this site.