Josh Reid Director, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
Born and raised in Washington State, Dr. Josh Reid (Snohomish) is an associate professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. In 2009, he earned his doctorate in history at the University of California, Davis. Yale University Press published his first monograph, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (2015) in the Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. It has received awards and acknowledgements from the Organization for American Historians, American Society for Ethnohistory, the Western History Association, and the North American Society for Oceanic History. He currently serves as the director for the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and is a Distinguished Speaker for the Western History Association.
Dr. Reid’s next monograph project examines indigenous explorers in the Pacific, from the late eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. He is also editing a volume of photographs of American Indian activist occupations and a volume about indigenous communities and violence.
Bruce Hevly Managing Editor, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Bruce Hevly is the managing editor of Pacific Northwest Quarterly and a past director of the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. A historian of science and technology, he has particular interests in histories of terrestrial physics and nuclear history.
Kim McKaig Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Kim McKaig first came to Pacific Northwest Quarterly as a student intern. After graduation from Whitman College, she returned, to be trained as an editor by the highly capable professionals of the former Office of Scholarly Journals.
Sheila Chapman Ryan Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Sheila Ryan joined the staff of Pacific Northwest Quarterly as an editor in 2023. Raised in the Seattle area, she earned a BA in English from Seattle Pacific University. She has been an editor in the publishing field for over 20 years.
Jess Cavalari Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Jess is a PhD candidate in the History department. His research interests include histories of disease, medicine, and public health, and environmental history in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is serving as the editorial intern for Pacific Northwest Quarterly through Spring 2025.
UW Department of History
The University of Washington History Department faculty has serious interests in Western U.S. history, with additional faculty located in American Indian Studies and American Ethnic Studies. Moreover, the Department has many outstanding faculty specializing in East and Southeast Asia. Those strengths — in the U.S. West and the Pacific World more broadly — combined with the center’s commitment to supporting innovative research on the region, bodes extremely well for the future of Western and Pacific history in Seattle.
CSPN Advisory Board
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John M. Findlay, Professor Emeritus of History
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Moon-Ho Jung, Professor of History
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Alexandra Harmon, Professor Emerita of American Indian Studies and History
Past CSPN Directors
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John M. Findlay, 1990-1999
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Bruce Hevly, 1999-2008
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Moon-Ho Jung, 2008-2013
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Linda Nash, 2013-2017