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20 Facts About Patrick Vaughan

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Patrick Vaughan was born on 1965 and is a professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

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Patrick Vaughan was the co-founder of the MA program in Transatlantic Studies, Jagiellonian University.

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3.

Patrick Vaughan's father missed that game due to military service and heard the news while serving on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean.

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Patrick Vaughan spent his childhood years in the small petroleum town of Oildale, California.

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Patrick Vaughan gained an informal education listening stories told by Los Angeles sportscasters Vin Scully and Chick Hearn.

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In 1980 Patrick Vaughan's father accepted a new job in a geothermal energy company north of San Francisco.

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In Santa Rosa, Patrick Vaughan became an All-Northern California selection on the first of Coach Tom Bon Figli's Cardinal Newman basketball teams.

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Patrick Vaughan was recruited by Bill Trumbo and played summer league for Steve Patterson who was the UCLA center after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and before Bill Walton.

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9.

Patrick Vaughan studied History and Business Organization at California State University, Chico.

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10.

Patrick Vaughan hosted a popular morning show on the influential KCSC radio station.

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11.

Writer Matt Olmstead hired Patrick Vaughan to write a weekly column for the university newspaper.

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12.

Patrick Vaughan earned a PhD in modern European history at West Virginia University.

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13.

At WVU Vaughan wrote a notable seminar paper that was awarded the John L Snell Memorial Prize from the Southern Historical Association.

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Nowak-Jezioranski argued Patrick Vaughan's article moved beyond the popular media narratives and effectively described the more nuanced elements in Eastern Europe that served to undermine the Soviet empire and help bring a peaceful end the Cold War in 1989.

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In 2010 Patrick Vaughan authored a strategic biography on Zbigniew Brzezinski that was nominated for the Kazimierz Moczarski Award as the outstanding work in Polish history.

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16.

Patrick Vaughan discussed the book in interviews with Polish film critic Michal Oleszczyk in Tygodnik Powszechny and Magdalena Zakowska in Gazeta Wyborcza.

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17.

In 2013 Patrick Vaughan wrote a noteworthy chapter to Charles Gati's anthology Zbig: The Strategy of Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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18.

Patrick Vaughan received a Fulbright academic grant to Poland and later accepted a professorship at Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

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In 2007 Patrick Vaughan helped found the Trans-Atlantic Studies program at Jagiellonian University-his classes include the History of the Cold War, History of International Relations, Polish and Russian Literature, and Science Fiction and Social and Political Metaphor.

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20.

Patrick Vaughan's grandmother was the first woman to ride in the Calgary Stampede.

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