Patrick Vaughan is an American historian and scholar teaching at the Master of Arts program in Transatlantic Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
Education
Patrick Vaughan was enrolled in Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, California and attended post-secondary instruction at California State University, Chico where he became friend with the New York City Police Department Blue and Prison Break producer Matt Olmstead, who encouraged Patrick to journalistic and academic writing. Patrick Vaughan completed college and pursued graduate education at West Virginia University.
Career
In 1999 Vaughan published an article in the Polish Review examining the role of the Carter administration to deter a potential Soviet invasion of Poland in 1980s. In 2003 his work was recognized as "a major contribution to the historiography of the Cold War" by the Polish embassy in Washington District of Columbia In May 2010 Patrick Vaughan published the first-ever full, authorized biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski in Polish. An English version of the biography is in preparation.
In 2011 his strategic biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski was nominated for Nagroda Historyczna im.
Kazimierza Moczarskiego Award as one of the superior works in Polish contemporary history.