Eric W. Robinson is an American historian of ancient Greece, specializing in early democracy.
In 1986, he graduated with a BA from Yale University.
[1] After studying under noted historian Donald Kagan as an undergraduate, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.
[2][1] From 1999 to 2006, Robinson was an associate professor at Harvard University, where he won the Roslyn Abramson Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
[3] Robinson has written and edited several works, including The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens, Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham, Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources, and Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age.