About

Aaron Goings is a professor and historian based in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Goings spent much of his career as a history professor at a (former) liberal arts university in the Pacific Northwest, where he also served as chair of the Department of History and Political Science.

Along the way, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, and served a two-year term as senior researcher at the Institute of Advanced Social Research in Tampere, Finland. Having earned his A.A. from Grays Harbor College, Aaron has happily returned to teach at his state’s community colleges in 2024.

Aaron has published four books with university presses, including The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest (UW Press, 2020), which won the Western Historical Association award for best book on the Pacific West. His fourth book, Red Harbor: Radical Labor and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest, is coming out from the UW Press in 2025 as part of their Kathleen and Emil Series on Western History. You can find more information about these books and Goings’s other work by using the tabs at the top of this site.

Goings’s most important work has been as part of the labor movement. From 2015 to 2017 he served as a founding member of his faculty union’s organizing committee with SEIU 925. In 2024, his coworkers at Peninsula College elected him to the executive board of their American Federation of Teachers (AFT) local.

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