Eric Davin

Davin was born in Dyersburg, Tennessee.^[1] He studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1972 to 1973. Davin earned his master's degree in history in 1989, and completed his Ph.D. in American history from Pittsburgh University.^[2]

Davin joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1980 where he taught American history and popular culture. He remained on the Pittsburgh faculty until 2020.^[3]

Davin’s scholarship spans labor history, political movements, and the history of science fiction. His books include Pioneers of Wonder (1999), based on interviews with early science fiction writers, and Partners in Wonder (2006), which examined the participation of women in the genre between 1926 and 1965.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

He later published Crucible of Freedom (2010), a study of working-class political activity in western Pennsylvania during the New Deal period, followed by Radicals in Power (2012), which analyzed former 1960s activists who entered public office.^[11][12][13]