Professional Affiliation

Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and Professor of History at Harvard University

Expert Bio

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and Professor of History at Harvard University. His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House, 2012), won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize, among other prizes. His other recent works include America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (with Campbell Craig; rev. ed., Belknap/Harvard, 2020). 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. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.