Remembering the Department of History's faculty members
Note that this list may not be exhaustive. Links to obituaries and articles are included where possible. If you find errors or omissions in the list, please email histmain@uw.edu.
| NAME | YEARS WITH DEPARTMENT | FIELD OF STUDY |
| Bergquist, Charles | 1989-2020 | Latin American history, global labor history |
| Bell, Aldon Duane | 1969-1992 | Nineteenth century Britain, Women's history |
| Bestor, Arthur | 1962-1994 | Constitutional law |
| Boba, Imre | 1962-1996 | European history |
| Bridgman, Jon | 1961-2015 | Modern European history |
| Butow, Robert | 1960-2017 | US-Japan relations |
| Burke, Robert | 1957-1998 | Pacific Northwest history, labor history |
| Camp, Stephanie | 2010-2014 | African American history |
| Carstensen, Vernon | 1964-1992 | African American history |
| Costigan, Giovanni | 1934-1990 | Irish and English history |
| Dahlin, Ebba | 1922-1936 | |
| Dobie, Edith | 1926-1957 | Great Britain |
| Dull, Jack | 1963-1995 | Han dynasty |
| Ellison, Herbert | 1968-2012 | Soviet and post-Soviet studies |
| Emerson, Donald | 1946-1995 | 20th century European history |
| Freidel, Frank | 1981-1993 | US history |
| Griffiths, Gordon | 1959-2001 | Renaissance, Reformation, and Dutch history |
| Holt, Stull | 1940-1981 | Military history |
| Hufbauer, Karl | ? - 2020 | History of science |
| Kaminsky, Howard | 1957-2014 | Late European medieval history |
| Katz, Solomon | 1936-1989 | Byzantine history |
| Lytl, Scott | 1949-1990 | French history, medieval and modern European history |
| McMahon, Edward | ||
| Meany, Edmond | 1894-1935 | Forestry, American history, and Pacific Northwest history |
| Palais, James | 1968-2006 | Korean studies |
| Pease, Otis | 1966-2010 | Twentieth century American history |
| Pinckney, David | 1967-1984 | French history |
| Pressly, Thomas | 1949-2012 | Civil War history |
| Quainton, Cecil Eden | European history | |
| Rorabaugh, William | 1976-2020 | US history |
| Saum, Lewis | 1965-1998 | US intellectual history |
| Savelle, Max | 1947-1979 | American Colonial history |
| Szeftel, Marc | 1962-1985 | Russian history |
| Solberg, Carl | 1966-1985 | Latin American and Canadian history |
| Sugar, Peter | 1959-1999 | European and Ottoman history |
| Treadgold, Donald | 1949-1994 | Russian history |
Additional reading on the impact of UW History faculty
Clio Confronts Conformity: The University of Washington History Department during the Cold War Era
This article, written by Jane Sanders for the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 1997, follows the efforts of several UW History faculty members who fought for academic freedom after the University expelled two tenured faculty members who belonged to the Communist party. The historians highlighted in this piece include Stull Holt, Max Savelle, Solomon Katz, Giovanni Costigan, Jon Bridgman, Scott Lytle, Arthur Bestor, and Gordon Griffiths.
Sanders, Jane A. “Clio Confronts Conformity: The University of Washington History Department during the Cold War Era.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 4, 1997, pp. 185–194. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40492333.