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Fredrik Logevall Fred Logevall's picture

John S. Knight Professor of International Studies

Office: 343 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 254-4311
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: fl57@cornell.edu

Office Hours: By appointment only.

Research and Teaching Interests

Fred Logevall joined the Department of History in 2004. He previously taught at UC Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. A specialist on U.S. foreign relations, Professor Logevall teaches a range of courses covering the history of U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy, as well as the international history of the Cold War and the Vietnam Wars. In 2006-07 he was Leverhulme Professor of History at the University of Nottingham and Mellon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and he currently serves as the director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. His new book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, will be published in August 2012.

Courses

2010-2015:   Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Spring 2013:
HIST 2890
 The U.S. Vietnam War

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 1993
B.A. Simon Fraser University, 1986

Publications

Books

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam (Random House, 2012).

A People and A Nation: A History of the United States, 9th ed. (co-authored, with Mary Beth Norton et al; Cengage, 2011).

America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (co-authored with Campbell Craig; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009; paperback February 2012).

Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977 (co-edited, with Andrew Preston; Oxford University Press, 2008).

The First Vietnam War: Colonial and Cold War Crisis (co-edited, with Mark A. Lawrence; Harvard University Press, 2007).

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies in the Principal Movements and Ideas, revised ed. (co-edited, with Alexander DeConde and Richard Dean Burns; Scribners, 2002).

Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader (edited; Houghton Mifflin, 2002).

The Origins of the Vietnam War (Longman, 2001).

Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 1999; paperback March 2001).