Robert K. Brigham

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.{{cite web|title= Robert K. Brigham {{!}} Vassar College |work= Vassar College |language= en |url= https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/robrigham |access-date= July 15, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240715133728/https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/robrigham |archive-date= July 15, 2024 |url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last=Paterson|first=Thomas G.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/876081143|title=American foreign relations : a history|date=2015|others=J. Garry Clifford, Robert K. Brigham, Michael E. Donoghue, Kenneth J. Hagan, Deborah Kisatsky, Shane J. Maddock|isbn=978-1-285-73627-3|edition=Eighth|location=Stamford, CT|pages=v|oclc=876081143}} At Kentucky, Brigham worked with Professor George C. Herring.

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.{{Cite book |url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/y2aQ3s6O-c4C|title= The Columbia History of the Vietnam War |date= 2011 |isbn=978-0-231-13480-4 |last=Anderson |first=David L. |location=New York City |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=432 |jstor= 10.7312/ande13480 |oclc=612962918 |lccn=2010018853}}

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.{{Cite book |title=After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War |location= Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=2000 |last=Neu |first=Charles |isbn= 978-0-8018-6332-5 |oclc= 1296740121 |lccn= 99053818 |doi= 10.56021/9780801863271 |url= https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/aOb_iKiMZa4C }}{{cite web|title= The Johns Hopkins Gazette: April 27, 1998 |work= The Johns Hopkins Gazette Online |language= en |url= https://pages.jh.edu/gazette/aprjun98/apr2798/27shaw.html |access-date= September 24, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230924030427/https://pages.jh.edu/gazette/aprjun98/apr2798/27shaw.html |archive-date= September 24, 2023 |url-status=dead}} From 2007 to 2008, he held the Mary Ball Washington Professorship of American History (Fulbright) at University College Dublin.{{Cite web|title=UCD School of History {{!}} Mary Ball Washington Chair|url=https://www.ucd.ie/history/about/maryball/|access-date=2021-12-20|website=www.ucd.ie}}

In addition to his academic writing, Brigham has published hundreds of reviews and op-ed pieces in newspapers, such as the Washington Post,{{Cite news|last=Brigham|first=Reviewed Robert K.|date=2003-03-02|title=Siege Mentality|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2003/03/02/siege-mentality/fb0147de-8761-4960-b9e7-812380689f1f/|access-date=2021-12-20|issn=0190-8286}} Wall Street Journal, and the Independent.{{Cite web|date=2007-01-14|title=Robert Brigham: Different war, same mistakes|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/robert-brigham-different-war-same-mistakes-431985.html|access-date=2021-12-20|website=The Independent|language=en}} He has also appeared on NPR, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, the BBC, CBS Radio, and CNN.{{Cite web|title=Historian to speak at Coe Feb. 28 on United States, Vietnam relationship|url=https://www.thegazette.com/k/historian-to-speak-at-coe-feb-28-on-united-states-vietnam-relationship/|access-date=2021-12-20|website=thegazette.com|language=en-US}} In 2017, Brigham contributed op-ed pieces to The New York Times series, Vietnam '67.{{Cite news|last=Brigham|first=Robert K.|date=2017-08-29|title=Opinion {{!}} Lyndon Johnson vs. the Hawks|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/opinion/lyndon-johnson-vietnam-senate.html|access-date=2021-12-20|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|last=Brigham|first=Robert K.|date=2017-06-17|title=Opinion {{!}} A Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/opinion/a-lost-chance-for-peace-in-vietnam.html|access-date=2021-12-20|issn=0362-4331}}

• 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){{Cite web |title=AAVC Bestows 2019 Spirit of Vassar and Outstanding Faculty/Staff Awards |url=https://stories.vassar.edu/2019/190828-aavc-bestows-2019-spirit-of-vassar-and-outstanding-faculty-awards.html |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=Vassar College |language=en-US}}
• Peter L. Hahn Distinguished Service Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2023){{Cite web |title=The Peter L. Hahn Distinguished Service Award |url=https://members.shafr.org/hahn-distinguished-service-award |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=members.shafr.org}}

• Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, 2018) {{ISBN|978-1-61039-702-5}}.
• American Foreign Relations: A History, Volumes I & II, Eighth edition (Cengage, 2015) {{ISBN|978-1-285-73627-3}}. 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) {{ISBN|978-1-118-29455-0}}.
• Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power (PublicAffairs, 2008) {{ISBN|978-0-7867-3173-2}}.
• Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (PublicAffairs, 2006) ISBN 978-1-58648-413-2.{{Cite journal|last=Gilbert|first=Marc Jason|date=2009|title=Review of Is Iraq Another Vietnam?; Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam; or, How Not to Learn from the Past|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/vs.2009.4.1.240|journal=Journal of Vietnamese Studies|volume=4|issue=1|pages=240–247|doi=10.1525/vs.2009.4.1.240|jstor=10.1525/vs.2009.4.1.240 |issn=1559-372X}}
• ARVN: life and death in the South Vietnamese Army (University Press of Kansas, 2006) {{ISBN|0-7006-1433-8}}.
• Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War (Cornell University Press, 1999) {{ISBN|0-8014-3317-7}}.
• Argument without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (PublicAffairs, 1999) {{ISBN|1-891620-22-3}}. Co-authored with Robert McNamara, James Blight, Thomas J. Biersteker, and Colonel Herbert Schandler.

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