Eric W Robinson

Eric W. Robinson is an American historian of Ancient Greece, specializing in early democracy. He is currently a professor at Indiana University. After studying under noted historian Donald Kagan as an undergraduate, he received his Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. From 1999-2006, Robinson was an associate professor at Harvard University, where he won the Roslyn Abramson Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

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.