Fredrik Logevall new honorary doctor

Fredrik Logevall is one of the most prominent researchers in modern American history and American foreign policy. He is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of History at Harvard University. Logevall was born in Sweden in 1963, but emigrated in his teens with his family to British Columbia in Canada. He received his education from North American universities, with a doctorate from Yale University. He then taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara and at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. before assuming his current positions at Harvard University in 2015. In recent years, Logevall has developed an important collaboration with the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at the Faculty of Languages in Uppsala University. Logevall has written and edited ten books and some fifty journal articles. The topics revolve around the Cold War, the Vietnam War, modern American social history and the American presidency. He is currently working on a three-volume biography of John F. Kennedy. In his research, he places America’s historical experiences in their international perspectives, which helps to broaden and problematise our understanding of American social development in an important way. These perspectives are particularly important given the current political situation.

The Conferment Ceremony will be hosted by Dag Blanck.