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Fredrik Logevall

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Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Field of History

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

Office Hours: TBA

Education

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

Courses

Fall 2008:
2890
The U.S. Vietman War
6180
20th Century U.S. Politics, Intelligence, & Diplomatic History
Spring 2009:
2440
The US in Vietnam

Recent Publications and Awards

Books

A People and A Nation: A History of the United States, 8th ed. (co-authored, with Mary Beth Norton et al; Houghton Mifflin, 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).

Awards

Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2003.

UC Regents' Humanities Faculty Fellowship, 2003.

Warren F. Kuehl Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2001.

Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize (co-winner), Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2000.

W. Turrentine Jackson Book Award, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, 2000.

Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2000.

The Charles Griffin Lectureship, Vassar College, 2000.

UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Prize for the Humanities and Fine Arts, 1998.

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Grant, 1995, 1996, 2000.