Michael C. Steiner is professor emeritus of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton where he taught for forty years, from 1975 until 2015. During his years at Fullerton, Steiner served as department chair and twice as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair: in Hungary in 1998–1999, and in Poland in 2004. He is the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed articles, among them the prize-winning essays "The Significance of Turner's Sectional Thesis" and "Frontierland as Tomorrowland: Walt Disney's Architectural Packaging of the Mythic West." Steiner is also the author or editor of five books, most recently: with Wayne Franklin, Mapping American Culture; with David Wrobel, Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity; Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West; and Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism. A native Midwesterner, Steiner currently lives in Easton, Pennsylvania and focuses his creative energy on writing and lecturing about American regionalism and the Midwest.
