Robert K. Brigham

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Robert K. Brigham
Born (1960-04-20) April 20, 1960 (age 64)
Occupation Historian

Robert K. Brigham is the Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College. He is a historian of US foreign policy, particularly of the Vietnam War.

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Education

Brigham earned his undergraduate degree from The College at Brockport, State University of New York and an MA from University of Rhode Island in 1982 prior to receiving his PhD from University of Kentucky in 1994. [1] [2] At Kentucky, Brigham worked with Professor George C. Herring.

Career

Brigham joined Vassar in 1994. He has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Social Sciences Committee in Hanoi. In addition, he has been Mellon Senior Visiting Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, and visiting professor of international relations at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. [3]

In 1998, he was an Albert Shaw Endowed Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University alongside Charles E. Neu, Brian Balogh, Robert McNamara, and George C. Herring. [4] [5] From 2007 to 2008, he held the Mary Ball Washington Professorship of American History (Fulbright) at University College Dublin. [6] [3]

In addition to his academic writing, Brigham has published hundreds of reviews and op-ed pieces in newspapers, such as the Washington Post , [7] Wall Street Journal , and the Independent . [8] He has also appeared on NPR, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer , the BBC, CBS Radio, and CNN. [9] In 2017, Brigham contributed op-ed pieces to The New York Times series, Vietnam '67. [10] [11]

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  2. Paterson, Thomas G. (2015). American foreign relations : a history. J. Garry Clifford, Robert K. Brigham, Michael E. Donoghue, Kenneth J. Hagan, Deborah Kisatsky, Shane J. Maddock (Eighth ed.). Stamford, CT. pp. v. ISBN   978-1-285-73627-3. OCLC   876081143.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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