Joshua L. Reid (he/him/his)

Born and raised in Washington State, Dr. Joshua L. Reid (registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John Calhoun Smith Memorial Endowed Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. He holds degrees from Yale University and the University of California, Davis, and is a three-time Ford Foundation Fellow. Reid has also received awards, grants, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Western History Association, and the University of Washington, among others. His publications include the award-winning The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (Yale, 2015), the co-edited Violence and Indigenous Communities: Confronting the Past and Engaging the Present (Northwestern, 2021), and the co-edited inaugural special issue of the American Historical Review (“Histories of Resilience,” December 2024). He currently directs the UW’s Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, edits two book series, and serves on the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review. Reid’s current project is about Indigenous explorers in the Pacific, from the late eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.

Professor Reid's research interests include American Indians, identity formation, cultural meanings of space and place, the American and Canadian Wests, the environment, and the indigenous Pacific. He teaches courses on American Indian History, the American West, U.S. History, and Environmental History.