Matthew O’Brien
- Instructor of History
Department: History and Anthropology
Office: James and Marlene Howard Hall
Phone: 732-263-5741
Email: mobrien@monmouth.edu
Professor O’Brien is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, where he is completing his dissertation, “Valuable Service: A Study of William Trumbull, English Agent to the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1605-1625.”He examines the intersection of confessional identity, international politics, and court intrigue in the first three decades of the seventeenth-century. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University, and he has an M.A. in History from Fordham University.