Robert. K. Brigham is Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College. He is a specialist on the history of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the Vietnam War and negotiations to end deadly conflict.
Along with several teaching awards, he has also earned fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for Humanities, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
Brigham is author or co-author of nine books, including America Foreign Relations since 1945 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018); The Wars for Vietnam (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) written with Mark P. Bradley; American Foreign Relations: A History, Volume I & Volume II, 8th Edition [along with Thomas Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, Michael Donoghue, and Kenneth Hagan] (Cengage, 2015); The United States and Iraq since 1990: A Brief History with Documents (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013); Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American Power (PublicAffairs, 2008); Is Iraq Another Vietnam? (PublicAffairs, 2006); ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army (Kansas, 2006); Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (PublicAffairs, 1999), written with former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight of Brown University; and Guerilla Diplomacy: The NLF’s Foreign Relations and the Vietnam War (Cornell, 1998). His current book project examines Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War (under contract with PublicAffairs).
He serves on several editorial and governing boards, including election to the Council of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Advisory Board of the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies. He is also an elected member of the London-based International Institute for Security Studies, one of the world’s leaders on global security issues.
"Trump's America" was a conference hosted by the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies (05-06 May 2017), examining the political and cultural significance of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States, and the first 100 days of his administration.
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