politics and foreign policy, and has won numerous honors for his work.

Logevall has lectured widely around the world on topics relating to diplomatic history and contemporary U.S. Logevall is a former president of the Society for Historians for American Foreign Relations. In 2004, he moved to Cornell University and assumed his present position at Harvard in 2015. He then taught for eleven years at University of California, Santa Barbara, where, with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, he co-founded the university's Center for Cold War Studies. foreign relations history from Yale University, where he studied under Gaddis Smith and Paul Kennedy. He went on to earn an MA in history from the University of Oregon and a PhD in U.S. He emigrated with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia as a youth and before entering Simon Fraser University. Biography įredrik Logevall was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963, and grew up in Västerås. Logevall’s essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, Daily Beast, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. His most recent book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (2020), won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He 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. Logevall 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. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D.

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