Daniel C. Waugh is a historian based at the University of Washington.
In 1965, he finished his Master's on the Regional Studies of the Soviet Union at Harvard University, and seven years later he completed his Ph.D. at the same institution.
The same year, 1972, he began his employment at the University of Washington, and has remained there ever since.
His main academic interests are Central Asia and medieval and early modern Russia, although he once focused on Ottoman history.
He is the director of the Silk Road Seattle project and editor of the annual journal of the Silkroad Foundation.