Fredrik Logevall


Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam Wars. He was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book .

Biography

Fredrik Logevall was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963, and lived thereafter in Västerås. He emigrated with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as a youth and graduated with a BA in political science from Simon Fraser University. Thereafter he earned an MA in history from the University of Oregon and a PhD in U.S. foreign relations history from Yale University, where he studied under Gaddis Smith, in 1993. He then taught for eleven years at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the University of California, Santa Barbara Center for Cold War Studies. In 2004 he moved to Cornell University as professor of history. In 2006-07 Logevall was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of History at University of Nottingham and Mellon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 2010 he became director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University and the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies.
Logevall is also an associate of the London School of Economics IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme, and he serves on the advisory board of the Presidential Recordings Project at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. He is on the editorial board of The Sixties journal, and of the book series, "Issues in the History of American Foreign Relations," Potomac Books, and he is on the editorial advisory board of H-DIPLO as well as the Cornell International Affairs Review. With Christopher Goscha he is the co-editor of the series "From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective," with University of California Press.

Awards

Logevall has lectured widely around the world on topics relating to diplomatic history and contemporary U.S. foreign policy, and has won numerous honors for his work. Among other awards, he has received the Stuart L. Bernath book, article, and lecture prizes as well as the Warren F. Kuehl Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; and the W. Turrentine Jackson Book Award, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association. He was also selected as a "Top Young Historian" by History News Network. A dedicated teacher, Logevall received the UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Prize for the Humanities and Fine Arts in 1998.
Logevall won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam.

Selected works

Logevall has published numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era, including: