Robert Brigham
Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, Vasser College
Area of Expertise: International Relations, Terrorism, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, Europe, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: Iraq
Language: English
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist
City: Poughkeepsie
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Email: robert.brigham@theglobalexperts.org
Dr. Robert. K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, has taught at Vassar since 1994. He teaches courses on the history of American foreign relations, modern America, and international history.
Along with several teaching awards, Brigham has also earned fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for Humanities, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, and the Social Sciences Committee in Hanoi, Vietnam. In addition, Brigham has been Albert Shaw Endowed Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, Mellon Senior Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University (Clare College), visiting professor of international relations at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History (Fulbright) at University College Dublin.
Brigham is author of numerous books and essays on American foreign relations, including Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF’s Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War; Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy written with Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense for presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and James G. Blight of Brown University; Is Iraq Another Vietnam?; Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power; Brigham is currently working on a history of nation building, a textbook on America’s wars in Iraq, and a book about human rights and U.S. foreign policy.
A regular public lecturer, Brigham has also provided interviews and written some two hundred articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, The Bangkok Post, Vietnam News, The Standard, South China Morning Post, Asia Times, and The Independent. He has also appeared on National Public Radio, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NBC, ABC, Fox News, the British Broadcasting Company, CBS Radio, the Australian Broadcasting Company, Talk Radio; RTE; NHK, and CNN.
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