Davin, Eric Leif
DAVIN, Eric Leif
PERSONAL: Born December 19, in Dyersburg, TN; father a construction worker, mother an Easter Seals office worker. Education: Attended Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1972-73; University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1999.
ADDRESSES: Home—P.O. Box 90087, Pittsburgh, PA 15224. Offıce—University of Pittsburgh, History Dept., 3S25 Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. E-mail— Davin@pitt.edu.
CAREER: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, adjunct professor of history.
AWARDS, HONORS: Eugene V. Debs Literature Prize; various journalism awards.
WRITINGS:
Picket Line and Ballot Box, Radical History, 1980. The Very Last Hurrah, University of Illinois, 1996. Pioneers of Wonder, Prometheus Books, 1999. Blue-Collar Democracy, Journal of Pennsylvania History, 2000.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Literary projects include work on early women SF writers and research on twentieth-century American political history.