Deborah Lynn Steinberg (7 October 1961 – 6 February 2017) was a British-based American academic, author, educator and sociologist.Deborah Lynn Steinberg obituary, Theguardian.com; accessed 17 August 2017. She was a professor of Gender, Culture and Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
Steinberg was born and brought up in Los Angeles, the daughter of Irwin Steinberg, a radiologist, and his wife, Maxine (née Beckerman) Steinberg, a lawyer. She had a BA in Women's Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; an MA from the University of Kent, and a PhD from the University of Birmingham.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, but was given the all clear in 2013. However, the disease returned the following year. She continued to work until incapacitated by the disease, and died in 2017, aged 55.
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External links Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (c1970-2000), academic and sociologist, papers at the National Archives