diff --git a/common/static/coffee/src/discussion/views/discussion_user_profile_view.coffee b/common/static/coffee/src/discussion/views/discussion_user_profile_view.coffee
index 1f192e12e2..94cb5f1c63 100644
--- a/common/static/coffee/src/discussion/views/discussion_user_profile_view.coffee
+++ b/common/static/coffee/src/discussion/views/discussion_user_profile_view.coffee
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ if Backbone?
           @numPages = response.num_pages
           @discussion.reset(response.discussion_data, {silent: false})
           history.pushState({}, "", url)
+          $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 });
         error: =>
           DiscussionUtil.discussionAlert(
             gettext("Sorry"),
diff --git a/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/discussion.py b/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/discussion.py
index 0fd2a9bcd0..d7c62313e3 100644
--- a/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/discussion.py
+++ b/common/test/acceptance/pages/lms/discussion.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 
+from bok_choy.javascript import wait_for_js
 from bok_choy.page_object import PageObject
 from bok_choy.promise import EmptyPromise, Promise
 
@@ -343,6 +344,10 @@ class DiscussionUserProfilePage(CoursePage):
             self.q(css='section.user-profile div.sidebar-username').text[0] == self.username
         )
 
+    @wait_for_js
+    def is_window_on_top(self):
+        return self.browser.execute_script("return $('html, body').offset().top") == 0
+
     def get_shown_thread_ids(self):
         elems = self.q(css="article.discussion-thread")
         return [elem.get_attribute("id")[7:] for elem in elems]
diff --git a/common/test/acceptance/tests/discussion/test_discussion.py b/common/test/acceptance/tests/discussion/test_discussion.py
index 7d8f188f6a..68d6e5f143 100644
--- a/common/test/acceptance/tests/discussion/test_discussion.py
+++ b/common/test/acceptance/tests/discussion/test_discussion.py
@@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ class DiscussionUserProfileTest(UniqueCourseTest):
         current_page = 1
         total_pages = max(num_threads - 1, 1) / self.PAGE_SIZE + 1
         all_pages = range(1, total_pages + 1)
+        return page
 
         def _check_page():
             # ensure the page being displayed as "current" is the expected one
@@ -479,6 +480,12 @@ class DiscussionUserProfileTest(UniqueCourseTest):
     def test_151_threads(self):
         self.check_pages(151)
 
+    def test_pagination_window_reposition(self):
+        page = self.check_pages(50)
+        page.click_next_page()
+        page.wait_for_ajax()
+        self.assertTrue(page.is_window_on_top())
+
 
 @attr('shard_1')
 class DiscussionSearchAlertTest(UniqueCourseTest):