Fredrik Logevall Biography

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of History. A specialist on U.S. foreign relations history and modern international history he was previously the Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University where he also served as vice provost and as the director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Before that he taught at the University of California Santa Barbara where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies.
Logevall is the author or editor of nine books most recently Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House 2012) which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize as well as the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. His other recent works include America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (with Campbell Craig; Belknap/Harvard 2009) and the college-level textbook A People and A Nation: A History of the United States (with Mary Beth Norton et al; 10th ed. Cengage 2014). A native of Stockholm Sweden Logevall holds a PhD in History from Yale University. He is immediate past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

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