Robert K. Brigham

Professor of History on the Shirley Ecker Boskey Chair
Headshot of Robert Brigham

Robert. K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, joined the Vassar faculty in 1994. He is a specialist on the history of US foreign policy, particularly the Vietnam War.

BA, SUNY College at Brockport; MA, University of Rhode Island; PhD, University of Kentucky
At Vassar since 1994

Contact

845-437-7189
Swift Hall
Box 64
Hours
Mon. and Tues. 3:00–4:00 p.m. and by appointment.

Research and Academic Interests

US Foreign Policy
Vietnam War

Departments and Programs

Courses

HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History
HIST 279 - The Viet Nam War
HIST 379 - War and Adoption

In the Media

A portrait of Marina Hrytsenko ’23 in front of the White House.

Marina Hrytsenko ’23 was studying abroad in London when war broke out in her native Ukraine. Now she’s back home helping with her country’s defense effort.

Two people seated at a desk with notepads and a laptop in a library

More than 30 Vassar students conducted humanities research projects under the auspices of the College’s Ford Scholars program.

Author Robert K. Brigham was mentioned in a Richfield Reaper story about a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History seminar on the Vietnam Conflict.

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