He is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as executive vice chancellor and provost.
Waugh graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1970.
His first book, The Lordship of England: Royal Wardships and Marriages in English Society and Politics, 1217-1327, published in 1988, was reviewed by John Maddicott in Albion,[3] by J. R. S. Phillips in The English Historical Review,[4] by Richard W. Kaeuper in Speculum,[5] and by Robert Bartlett in the Journal of British Studies.
[6] 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,[7] by Anthony Goodman in History,[8] by Ian Dawson in Teaching History,[9] by James W. Alexander in Speculum,[10] by Professor Stephen H. Rigby of the University of Manchester in The Economic History Review,[11] by Professor Robert C. Stacey of the University of Washington in The Journal of Economic History,[12] by Professor Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke of Saarland University in Historische Zeitschrift,[13] and by Simon Walker in The English Historical Review.
[1] 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.