Aaron Goings

Dr. Goings is a historian of the 20th century United States social and labor history. He teaches courses on Pacific Northwest History, United State Labor and Working-Class History, History Research Methods, World History, and Latin American History.

In his decade-plus at Saint Martin’s, Aaron has served as faculty advisor of the Saint Martin’s University Social Action Club. He is also the founder and organizer of the Pacific Northwest Social Action Speaker Series, which has hosted scholars and working-class activists from across the United States. A (mostly) lifelong Northwesterner, Aaron is deeply interested in the community and industrial life in western Washington – southwest Washington, the Olympic Peninsula, and the Puget Sound.

Having always wanted to experience life in a democratic country, Dr. Goings worked as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. From 2017-2019, he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Social Research in Finland, one of Europe’s premier social science research institutes.