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.

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. At Kentucky, Brigham worked with Professor George C. Herring.

Career

Brigham joined Vassar in 1994. He has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the

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, 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

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. 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. From 2007 to 2008, he held the Mary Ball Washington Professorship of American History (Fulbright) at University College Dublin. In addition to his academic writing, Brigham has published hundreds of reviews and

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pieces in newspapers, such as the '' Washington Post'', '' Wall Street Journal'', and '' the Independent''. He has also appeared on NPR, the ''

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'', the BBC,

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, and CNN. In 2017, Brigham contributed op-ed pieces to '' The New York Times'' series, ''Vietnam '67''.

Awards

* Outstanding Faculty Member, Southern Vermont College (1987) * Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Kentucky (1993) * Outstanding Faculty Member, Semester at Sea, University of Virginia (2014) * Outstanding Faculty Award, Alumnae/I Association of Vassar College (2019) * Peter L. Hahn Distinguished Service Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2023)

Books

''Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam'' (

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, 2018) . ''American Foreign Relations: A History, Volumes I & II'', Eighth edition (

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, 2015) . Co-authored with Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, Michael E. Donoghue, Kenneth J. Hagan, Deborah Kisatsky, Shane J. Maddock. ''The United States and Iraq Since 1990: a Brief History with Documents'' ( Wiley, 2013) . ''Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power'' (PublicAffairs, 2008) . ''Is Iraq Another Vietnam?'' (PublicAffairs, 2006) ISBN 978-1-58648-413-2. ''ARVN: life and death in the South Vietnamese Army'' ( University Press of Kansas, 2006) . ''Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War'' ( Cornell University Press, 1999) . ''Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy'' (PublicAffairs, 1999) . Co-authored with Robert McNamara, James Blight,

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, and Colonel Herbert Schandler.

References

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