1. 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.
Fredrik Logevall is a specialist in US politics and foreign policy.
Fredrik 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.
Fredrik Logevall was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963, and grew up in Vasteras.
Fredrik Logevall emigrated with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia as a youth and before entering Simon Fraser University.
Fredrik Logevall went on to earn an MA in history from the University of Oregon and a PhD in US foreign relations history from Yale University, where he studied under Gaddis Smith and Paul Kennedy.
Fredrik Logevall 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.
Fredrik Logevall is a former president of the Society for Historians for American Foreign Relations.
Fredrik Logevall has lectured widely around the world on topics relating to diplomatic history and contemporary US politics and foreign policy, and has won numerous honors for his work.
Fredrik Logevall has published numerous books and articles on US foreign policy in the Cold War era, including:.