Dr. Eric Boyle is Chief Historian for the Department of Energy. His position involves work in three main areas: history, historic preservation, and archival management. Some of his primary responsibilities include: 1) researching, writing, and disseminating the history of DOE and its predecessor agencies; 2) providing historical services and institutional memory to assist departmental management and staff in policy and decision-making activities; 3) helping to preserve historic sites and buildings; and 4) using DOE archives to provide historical services.

Eric earned his PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Prior to coming to DOE, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Office of History at the National Institutes Health and Medicine and worked as Chief Archivist at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. He has also taught at four universities and wrote an award-winning book titled Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America. His most recent project is a history inspired by the 50th anniversary of the abolition of the Atomic Energy Commission, co-written with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Historian Tom Wellock, titled Atomic Fission: The Breakup of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974.