Scott L. Waugh

Waugh went on to serve as acting executive vice chancellor and provost from 2006 to 2008. He has served as executive vice chancellor and provost since December 1, 2008.

Waugh served as the dean of the Division of Social Sciences from 1992 to 2006. He was a "key negotiator" during the 1993 hunger strike at UCLA, when students demanded that Chicano Studies be added to the syllabus, and he established the discipline on campus.

His second book, England in the Reign of Edward III, published in 1991, was reviewed by Professor Ruth Mazo Karras of the University of Minnesota in Albion, by Anthony Goodman in History, by Ian Dawson in Teaching History, by James W. Alexander in Speculum, by Professor Stephen H. Rigby of the University of Manchester in The Economic History Review, by Professor Robert C. Stacey of the University of Washington in The Journal of Economic History, by Professor Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke of Saarland University in Historische Zeitschrift, and by Simon Walker in The English Historical Review.

Waugh joined the department of history at UCLA in 1975. He is professor of history. He is the author of two books about the Middle Ages in England.

Waugh graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1970. He was awarded a PhD in history from the University of London in 1975.

Scott L. Waugh (born April 27, 1948) is an American historian and academic administrator. He is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also serves as executive vice chancellor and provost. He was an early supporter of Chicano Studies at UCLA. He is the author of two widely reviewed books about the Middle Ages, and the co-editor of a third book.